{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE LIGHT CARD",
 "handle": "light-card",
 "number": "Nº 1160",
 "house": "THE APPS",
 "wing": "THE STUDIO TOOLS",
 "role": "one look, applied the same to every photo",
 "tagline": "An offline photo-grading engine: one recipe of plain adjustments applied the same way to every photo in linear light, written into each file it makes, and exported as a look other editors load.",
 "sigil": "LX",
 "hue": "#4A3BC4",
 "punch": "C64642344B82297D74753A52",
 "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 wants one look across many photos, or a grade they can repeat exactly",
 "loop": [
  "write the recipe; read it back in words",
  "grade one photo; look at it",
  "grade the batch with the same recipe",
  "cube · the look for other editors",
  "crop · the box for the print or post"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Linear light.** Every adjustment is made in linear light, then encoded back: +1 EV doubles the light.",
  "**Nothing by default.** A key left out does nothing; an empty recipe changes no pixel at all.",
  "**Greys stay grey.** Saturation works about each pixel's own brightness, so a grey is never tinted.",
  "**The edit travels.** The recipe is written into every file the card makes.",
  "**A look exported, measured.** A .cube carries the fixed part of a recipe, and the machine says how closely it matches.",
  "**Its own formats.** PNG only, read and written by the card itself; JPEG, HEIC and video are refused plainly."
 ],
 "never": [
  "invent a look the owner did not ask for",
  "grade video",
  "write over the photo it was given"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/light.py · grade · cube · recipe · crop · 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/light.py",
  "references/THE-LIGHT.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"
}