{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "edition": 1,
 "cut": "2026-10-13",
 "header": "AI SKILL CARD · LSC-1",
 "house": "THE HOME GROUND",
 "wing": "THE MARKET ROW",
 "no": "Nº 1227",
 "name": "THE PROVENANCE FILE",
 "handle": "provenance-file-card",
 "role": "A resale item's history from the seller's own records: hashed, dated, never written up past them.",
 "description": "Use when a reseller assembles where an item came from (receipts, serials, photos, custody), hashed, with listing text that claims only what is on file. Not for authenticating items.",
 "wakes_when": {
  "face": "A rare item's history needs assembling for a listing.",
  "situations": [
   "A reseller is listing a rare item and wants its history on file.",
   "A buyer asks for proof of where something came from.",
   "Listing copy needs checking against the records."
  ]
 },
 "loop": [
  "Gather receipt, serial, photos and custody",
  "Hash every record into the packet",
  "Check nothing has changed",
  "Write listing text from the file only"
 ],
 "never": [
  "Never creates, edits or fills in a receipt",
  "Never says authentic without evidence",
  "Never hides a missing receipt"
 ],
 "hand_off": [
  "Authentication → the maker or an authenticator",
  "Pricing → THE COMPS LEDGER",
  "Bike condition → THE SIX ANGLES"
 ],
 "in_the_box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "▣ scripts/provenance.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/provenance.py",
  "usage": [
   "python3 scripts/provenance.py pack FOLDER [--item item.json] [--out PROVENANCE.md] [--today YYYY-MM-DD]  — hash the receipt, photos and item.json; write PROVENANCE.md and PROVENANCE.sha256; prints NO RECEIPT ON FILE when there is none",
   "python3 scripts/provenance.py verify FOLDER  — re-hash every file in PROVENANCE.sha256: MATCH, CHANGED or MISSING per file",
   "python3 scripts/provenance.py listing [--folder FOLDER] [--item item.json] [--out FILE] [--evidence CLAIM=FILE ...]  — listing text with only what is on file: item, serial, bought from, dates, photo count, receipt on file or not",
   "python3 scripts/provenance.py export [--folder FOLDER] [--item item.json] [--out FILE]  — item.json with each file's current sha256, as JSON",
   "python3 scripts/provenance.py selftest  — run the built-in checks in a temporary folder"
  ],
  "selftest": "15/15"
 },
 "punch": {
  "hex": "026F21C47722C07E54A87C58",
  "bits": "000000100110111100100001110001000111011100100010110000000111111001010100101010000111110001011000",
  "of": "SKILL.md",
  "method": "first 96 bits of SHA-256"
 },
 "proof": "Machine selftest 15/15 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 181 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, `provenance.py`, whose selftest passes (15/15); +1 eight or more selftest checks; +1 4 working commands besides the selftest",
   "Law": "+1 3 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 2026-10-13, 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 receipt, serial number, photos and custody notes."
 ],
 "studio_edition": "Nothing of the studio's is needed; the data is yours.",
 "hold": null,
 "disclaimer": "not authentication · 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."
}