{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "edition": 2,
 "cut": "2026-10-14",
 "header": "AI SKILL CARD · LSC-1",
 "house": "THE METHODS",
 "wing": "THE CARD BENCH",
 "no": "Nº 434",
 "name": "THE PACKAGE CARD",
 "handle": "package-card",
 "role": "The shelf-ready seat: a card folder packed into the one file a loader takes, the same bytes every time.",
 "description": "Use when a card folder must become the one zip a shelf and an AI's skill loader take: layout, front matter, deterministic bytes, nothing secret or stray inside. Not for the edition number or the tin.",
 "wakes_when": {
  "face": "A folder is about to ship.",
  "situations": [
   "A card folder is finished and must become a .skill.zip.",
   "A zip was rejected by a loader and nobody knows why.",
   "Two zips of the same card differ by bytes and they should not.",
   "A folder has a .env or a __pycache__ in it that must never ship."
  ]
 },
 "loop": [
  "Check the folder: door, front matter, secrets",
  "Pack: one top folder, fixed timestamps",
  "Inspect the zip back",
  "Say SAME or DIFFERENT between two"
 ],
 "never": [
  "Never packs a secret, by name or by content",
  "Never packs a folder with no door",
  "Never packs stray files like .DS_Store",
  "Never claims a certainty it does not have"
 ],
 "hand_off": [
  "The edition number and note → THE EDITION CARD",
  "The tin that describes the box → THE TIN CARD",
  "Proof the machine inside works → THE WITNESS CARD"
 ],
 "in_the_box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "▣ scripts/package.py (machine)",
  "▣ scripts/evals.py (test runner)",
  "tests/EVALS.json (9 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/package.py",
  "usage": [
   "python3 scripts/package.py check --folder DIR  — is the folder shelf-ready? NO DOOR, BAD FRONT MATTER, SECRET and STRAY (junk files) are refused; EMPTY DIR and LARGE are flagged",
   "python3 scripts/package.py pack --folder DIR --out DIR_OUT [--name NAME]  — write DIR_OUT/<name>.skill.zip, one top folder, deterministic bytes; refused on any check failure",
   "python3 scripts/package.py inspect --zip FILE  — read a package back: the top folder, the door's name and description, the file count and size; WRONG LAYOUT when there is no single top folder",
   "python3 scripts/package.py same --zip-a FILE --zip-b FILE  — are two packages the same content, entry for entry? SAME or DIFFERENT, with the first difference named",
   "python3 scripts/package.py list --zip FILE  — print every entry with its size",
   "python3 scripts/package.py selftest  — build a fictional card folder in a temp dir and prove every command and every refusal"
  ],
  "selftest": "14/14"
 },
 "punch": {
  "hex": "6E7A7E30A108B2C3750BE12A",
  "bits": "011011100111101001111110001100001010000100001000101100101100001101110101000010111110000100101010",
  "of": "SKILL.md",
  "method": "first 96 bits of SHA-256"
 },
 "proof": "Machine selftest 14/14 witnessed in Claude, 2026-10-14, on fictional fixtures. Tests in fresh chats and any run on real data are owed.",
 "seal": {
  "score": 98,
  "of": 100,
  "band": "LEGENDARY",
  "mark": "WITNESSED",
  "criteria": {
   "Trigger": 5,
   "Machinery": 5,
   "Law": 5,
   "Portability": 5,
   "Proof": 5
  },
  "scale": "five Skill Scale criteria, each out of 5, ×4, capped at 98; computed by the cutter from the packet",
  "computed": {
   "Trigger": "+2 description 199 characters with a trigger and an anti-trigger; +1 4 situations it wakes on; +2 9 tests of all three kinds aboard",
   "Machinery": "+3 a machine of its own, `package.py`, whose selftest passes (14/14); +1 eight or more selftest checks; +1 5 working commands besides the selftest",
   "Law": "+1 4 never-lines; +1 3 hand-offs; +1 a written law; +2 7 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 2026-10-14, on fictional fixtures; +1 run from inside the packet itself; +1 the 9 tests asked in a fresh chat holding only the card, scored by scripts/evals.py: 9/9, witnessed on 2026-10-14"
  }
 },
 "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": [
  "The finished card folder.",
  "The name the package takes, if not the folder's.",
  "The loader's rules, if they differ from the ones here."
 ],
 "studio_edition": "Planned as a separate seat, not in this box and not yet on sale: the packer the studio uses at every cut of its own cards.",
 "hold": null,
 "disclaimer": "not a code-signing tool · 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."
}