{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "edition": 1,
 "cut": "2026-10-13",
 "header": "AI SKILL CARD · LSC-1",
 "house": "THE HOME GROUND",
 "wing": "THE MEETING HOUSE",
 "no": "Nº 1238",
 "name": "THE MOAT CARD",
 "handle": "moat-card",
 "role": "A small studio's work scored for how hard it is to copy, and where the secrets leak.",
 "description": "Use when a small studio wants its products scored for defensibility against exposure to general AI, and wants secrets found that buyers can read. Not legal advice.",
 "wakes_when": {
  "face": "A studio asks which of its work is hard to copy.",
  "situations": [
   "A studio asks which of its products a general AI could replace.",
   "Someone wants to know what to build data for next.",
   "A sellable packet might be leaking a secret method."
  ]
 },
 "loop": [
  "Score each asset on five moats",
  "Set defensibility against exposure",
  "Find secrets readable in packets",
  "Plan the next data to build"
 ],
 "never": [
  "Never gives legal advice on protection",
  "Never scores an asset it wasn't given",
  "Never calls a secret safe in a sold packet"
 ],
 "hand_off": [
  "Protection questions → counsel",
  "Ledgers that build data → the cards of this house",
  "A person's review of the scores → THE SECOND OPINION"
 ],
 "in_the_box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "▣ scripts/moat.py (machine)",
  "▣ scripts/evals.py (test runner)",
  "tests/EVALS.json (8 tests)",
  "references/ (schema + fictional demo)",
  "START-HERE.md · system/ doors",
  "MY-LEDGER.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "card.svg · card.json · card.html",
  "AUDIT.md · MANIFEST.md · WITNESS.md · SELFTEST.md"
 ],
 "machine": {
  "file": "scripts/moat.py",
  "usage": [
   "python3 scripts/moat.py score [--assets assets.csv] [--defensible-at 9] [--exposed-at 2]  — every asset's defensibility, exposure and quadrant, with the rule",
   "python3 scripts/moat.py leaks [--assets assets.csv]  — assets with secret_in_packet=yes (exit 1 if any, so it can gate a release)",
   "python3 scripts/moat.py unprotected [--assets assets.csv]  — assets whose protection is none, or not recorded",
   "python3 scripts/moat.py plan [--assets assets.csv] [--defensible-at 9] [--exposed-at 2]  — the top five BUILD THE DATA assets, each with the moat field that has the most room to rise",
   "python3 scripts/moat.py export [--assets assets.csv] [--defensible-at 9] [--exposed-at 2] [--out FILE]  — every asset with its scores and quadrant as one JSON document",
   "python3 scripts/moat.py selftest  — builds its own fixtures in a temporary folder and runs the numbered checks"
  ],
  "selftest": "12/12"
 },
 "punch": {
  "hex": "A6997F0CF32D1141C84D7843",
  "bits": "101001101001100101111111000011001111001100101101000100010100000111001000010011010111100001000011",
  "of": "SKILL.md",
  "method": "first 96 bits of SHA-256"
 },
 "proof": "Machine selftest 12/12 witnessed in Claude, 2026-10-13, on fictional fixtures. Tests in fresh chats and any run on real data are owed.",
 "seal": {
  "score": 96,
  "of": 100,
  "band": "LEGENDARY",
  "mark": "WITNESSED",
  "criteria": {
   "Trigger": 5,
   "Machinery": 5,
   "Law": 5,
   "Portability": 5,
   "Proof": 4
  },
  "scale": "five Skill Scale criteria, each out of 5, ×4, capped at 98; computed by the cutter from the packet",
  "computed": {
   "Trigger": "+2 description 163 characters with a trigger and an anti-trigger; +1 3 situations it wakes on; +2 8 tests of all three kinds aboard",
   "Machinery": "+3 a machine of its own, `moat.py`, whose selftest passes (12/12); +1 eight or more selftest checks; +1 5 working commands besides the selftest",
   "Law": "+1 3 never-lines; +1 3 hand-offs; +1 a written law; +2 4 selftest checks prove a refusal or a flag inside the machine",
   "Portability": "+3 Python standard library only; +1 no network calls; +1 runs no other programs",
   "Proof": "+3 the machine's selftest witnessed in Claude on 2026-10-13, on fictional fixtures; +1 run from inside the packet itself; 0 of 1: the 8 tests asked in fresh chats with the card installed — owed"
  }
 },
 "term": {
  "price": "set on the store at sale",
  "licence": "one person, any number of their own AIs and computers; never another person",
  "renewal": "nothing auto-renews"
 },
 "you_bring": [
  "Your list of assets and your honest scores on each field."
 ],
 "studio_edition": "Nothing of the studio's is needed; the data is yours.",
 "hold": null,
 "disclaimer": "not legal advice · not a payment card · no refunds · © 2026 Lund Studio LLC",
 "endorsement": "The holder brings their own AI; no endorsement by Anthropic or any other AI company is claimed."
}