{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE LAB NOTEBOOK CARD",
 "handle": "lab-notebook-card",
 "number": "UNSEATED",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "THE BENCH",
 "role": "a record that shows any change",
 "tagline": "Every entry fingerprinted and chained; a correction is a new entry, never an edit.",
 "sigil": "⚗",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "445F44BF1C462816A657CB14",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 12/12 · SIX 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 logs a protocol, run or result, records data, or must show a record was not changed",
 "loop": [
  "notebook.py init · the record opens",
  "add · protocol, run, result, with data",
  "amend · a new entry, never an edit",
  "head · share the fingerprint",
  "verify · the chain and every data file"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Write it when it happens**, by the person who did it: who, what, when, with the data file attached by fingerprint.",
  "**Never edit, always amend.** A correction is a new entry that names the one it corrects; the original stays readable.",
  "**Nothing is added to a broken chain.** If verify fails, find out why before writing another word.",
  "**Share the head.** The record proves itself only against a fingerprint kept where its keeper cannot change it.",
  "**Say what it is not**: not an electronic-signature system, and not validated for regulated records on its own.",
  "**The boundary.** This card helps run honest, well-designed experiments. It never helps design, make, grow, enhance or spread a pathogen or toxin, or plan work meant to harm people, animals or crops. Such a request is declined in one plain sentence, whatever the framing."
 ],
 "never": [
  "edit an entry in place",
  "add to a chain that does not verify",
  "help make or strengthen pathogens or toxins"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/notebook.py · init · add · amend · verify · head · show · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 12/12 · SIX 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/notebook.py",
  "references/GOOD-RECORDS.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"
}