{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE HOST PROBE",
 "handle": "host-probe-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE AGENT BENCH",
 "role": "what this host offers, and the walls it has",
 "tagline": "Tools, folders, disk, memory, the network as declared — read without sending a packet; the walls learned once and kept.",
 "sigil": "◈",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "130FDB9D078DD8E308D13735",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 11/11 · FOUR 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": "an agent starts in a new environment, or a build must pass through a size or tool limit",
 "loop": [
  "hostprobe.py probe · the record, no packet",
  "wall · every limit learned, with its note",
  "needs · what the task will want",
  "check · the mismatches, before any work",
  "the walls travel: next task, first step"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Probe before work.** The record costs a second; the wall at the end costs the build.",
  "**No packets.** The network is described from the environment, never tested on the wire; the probe sends nothing.",
  "**A wall is learned once.** Measured the hard way one time, kept with its note, checked at every later start.",
  "**Needs are written, not assumed.** Tools, folders, network, outputs with their walls, in a file the check can read.",
  "**A mismatch is named before any step**, with the wall and the size side by side.",
  "**Unknown is a value.** A network not declared open is reported as not declared, never as open."
 ],
 "never": [
  "test the network on the wire to describe it",
  "learn the same wall twice",
  "start a long build without the check"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/hostprobe.py · probe · wall · needs · check · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 11/11 · FOUR 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/hostprobe.py",
  "references/KNOW-THE-HOST-FIRST.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"
}