{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE POINTING CARD",
 "handle": "pointing-card",
 "number": "Nº 1153",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "SIGNAL AND SENSE",
 "role": "how long it takes to hit a target",
 "tagline": "The pointing law of 1954: the time to hit a target grows with the bits of the move, log₂(1 + D/W). The bits, the time, the width a target needs, the web's minimum sizes, and your own a and b.",
 "sigil": "ID",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "308444C11D811647B9AB22E8",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · FIVE 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 sizes buttons or touch targets, or asks how long it takes to hit something",
 "loop": [
  "id <distance> <width> · the bits",
  "time · with a and b, said as a guess",
  "size <distance> <time> · the width",
  "targets <px>... · the web minimums",
  "fit <moves.csv> · your own a and b"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**Bits, not pixels.** Twice as far is exactly as hard as half as wide; the card works in bits.",
  "**a and b are yours.** The defaults are a starting guess and say so; fit replaces them with your measurements.",
  "**Published minimums.** 24 CSS px for level AA and 44 for level AAA in the web's accessibility guidelines.",
  "**Width along the move.** W is the target's size in the direction of the move.",
  "**Throughput.** fit also gives bits a second, the figure that compares devices fairly.",
  "**Refused, not guessed.** A target of no width, or a time no width can meet, is refused."
 ],
 "never": [
  "present the default a and b as measured",
  "pass a target under 24 px as fine",
  "confuse width with height of a long target"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/pointing.py · id · time · size · targets · fit · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · FIVE 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/pointing.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"
}