{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE LEAST ACTION CARD",
 "handle": "least-action-card",
 "number": "Nº 1142",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "THE ELEVEN MORE LAWS",
 "role": "nature's paths, the ones that cost least",
 "tagline": "Of every path between two moments, nature takes the one whose action is least: a throw's true path beside bent ones, the fastest slide between two points, and the shape a chain hangs in.",
 "sigil": "δS",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "5CC287D0B4DC7F3E155C7F0D",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · 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",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone asks about least action, the fastest slide, or a hanging chain's shape",
 "loop": [
  "throw <seconds> · true path vs bent",
  "fastest <across> <down> · three slides",
  "chain <span> <length> · the hanging curve",
  "show the numbers, not just the claim",
  "say where friction would change it"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Shown, not asserted.** The true path's action is printed beside the bent paths', so the least is seen.",
  "**Stationary, strictly.** The true path is where the action stops changing; for these cases that is its least, and the card says so.",
  "**The cycloid wins.** Dropping steeply first buys speed; the straight ramp is shortest and slowest.",
  "**The chain's curve.** y = a cosh(x/a), solved for the length given, with its depth in the middle.",
  "**No friction.** Every slide is frictionless and says so.",
  "**Refused, not guessed.** A chain shorter than its span, or a slide with no drop, is refused."
 ],
 "never": [
  "call the shortest path the fastest",
  "claim least without showing the comparison",
  "hang a chain shorter than its span"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/action.py · throw · fastest · chain · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · 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/action.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"
}