{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE INFORMATION CARD",
 "handle": "information-card",
 "number": "Nº 1137",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "THE THIRTEEN EQUATIONS",
 "role": "information, measured in bits",
 "tagline": "H = −Σ p log₂ p: the bits a text carries, the most a channel can carry without error, the strength of a random password, and the surprise in any chance.",
 "sigil": "⊕",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "B904D95063ABF6745B7A6B5E",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · 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",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone asks how much information, how fast a link can be, or how strong a password is",
 "loop": [
  "measure <file> · bits per symbol",
  "capacity <B> <S/N> · the ceiling",
  "password <length> · random bits",
  "odds <N> · the surprise",
  "say what the measure does not see"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Bits are surprise.** A fair coin is one bit; a certain outcome is none.",
  "**Single-symbol counts.** measure counts letters, not words or meaning; a compressor does better because it sees patterns.",
  "**The capacity is a ceiling.** No code beats B log₂(1 + S/N); good codes come close.",
  "**Random only.** Password strength is for random draws; a word a person chose is far weaker than the count.",
  "**Read, not stored.** measure reads the file where it is and keeps nothing.",
  "**Units said.** Bits, bytes and bit/s, labelled."
 ],
 "never": [
  "call a chosen password random",
  "claim a link above its capacity",
  "read meaning into a bit count"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/information.py · measure · capacity · password · odds · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · 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/information.py",
  "references/THE-LAWS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "boundary": "never helps make or strengthen pathogens or toxins",
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}