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 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE DRIFT CARD",
 "handle": "drift-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE AGENT BENCH",
 "role": "the lines in a doc the code no longer backs",
 "tagline": "Paths that are gone, commands the scripts no longer take, symbols nothing defines, counts that do not add up — by line.",
 "sigil": "◈",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "DF71E452D329678A8EADC9DD",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 11/11 · THREE COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "wakes": "someone asks whether the docs are still true, or an agent keeps following a line that fails",
 "loop": [
  "drift.py scan · the doc against the code",
  "paths · commands · the narrow passes",
  "mend or remove each line, that day",
  "scan in the commit that changes the code",
  "a person reads the doc once a quarter"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**A stale instruction is worse than none.** The agent trusts it, fails, and the failure looks like its own.",
  "**Four kinds of drift**: a path, a command, a symbol, a count. Each is checked against the folder, not against memory.",
  "**Named by line**, so the mend takes a minute.",
  "**Scan with the change.** The commit that changes the code runs the scan on the docs that name it.",
  "**Mend the same day.** A doc that lies once is read as lying twice.",
  "**Syntax, not meaning.** The card reads what the doc names; a person reads what it claims."
 ],
 "never": [
  "leave a stale line because it is \"nearly right\"",
  "let a doc describe a command that is gone",
  "call a syntactic pass a review"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/drift.py · scan · paths · commands · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 11/11 · THREE commands on the record",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/drift.py",
  "references/HOW-DOCS-DRIFT.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}