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  "name": "THE REGRESSION CARD",
  "number": "PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
  "sigil": "regress",
  "hue": "#5A1EC8",
  "role": "the release seat · nothing quietly gets worse",
  "tagline": "SAME CASES EVERY VERSION · A REGRESSION STOPS THE RELEASE · THE RATE NEVER HIDES ONE",
  "honest_line": "It compares the results it is given. It cannot tell if the cases are the right cases — a regression set only covers what someone thought to test, so add a case for every failure found.",
  "wakes": [
    "a new version of a prompt, bot, model, agent or app",
    "a release decision",
    "test results over time",
    "a fix that might have broken something else"
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    "RUN",
    "RECORD",
    "COMPARE",
    "TREND",
    "GROW",
    "LEDGER"
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  "never": [
    "a release over a regression",
    "a rising pass rate hiding a new failure",
    "a version recorded twice"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Every version runs the same cases. New cases are added, never swapped in silently.",
    "A regression — a case that passed and now fails — stops the release until it is fixed or knowingly accepted in writing.",
    "A rising pass rate never hides a regression. Read the case list, not only the rate.",
    "Every failure found in the wild becomes a new case.",
    "A version is recorded once; a re-run gets a new version name."
  ],
  "box": [
    "SKILL.md · CARD.md",
    "the machine · regress.py · 6/6",
    "reference · THE-METHOD by hand",
    "START-HERE · TIN · MY-LEDGER",
    "THE-CLAUSES · LICENSE-NOTE",
    "the doors · HOSTS · system prompts",
    "ten tests · faces · audit · witness"
  ],
  "score": null,
  "tier": null,
  "layer": null,
  "score_line": "NOT SCORED HERE · THE SEATING GIVES THE SCORE",
  "proof": "MACHINE ABOARD · SELFTEST 6/6 · 10 TESTS · WITNESSED ON REAL WORK",
  "cut": "2026-10-03",
  "from": "his word on Oct 3 2026 — 'what are ai cards the major ai companies would build and lets build all of them' — the first wave, buildable now",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "A seat that runs the same test cases on every version of an AI system and stops a release when anything that used to pass now fails.",
      "Records each version's results, compares two versions into regressions, fixes and still-failing, and shows the pass rate over time."
    ]
  },
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}