{
  "name": "THE TIMELINE CARD",
  "handle": "timeline-card",
  "number": "696 PROPOSED",
  "edition": 2,
  "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
  "sigil": "↦",
  "hue": "#4C2E6B",
  "role": "dated events in order, intervals computed, the undated named",
  "tagline": "BY DATE, NEVER BY THE ORDER WRITTEN",
  "honest_line": "Common date forms are read; others are refused. Intervals are in days. Circa and ranges are not modeled.",
  "wakes": [
    "a history, case or family record must be put in date order",
    "how long between these events",
    "which events in my record have no date"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME — `This is THE TIMELINE CARD.`",
    "ASK — the events as lines: date · event.",
    "ORDER — by date, intervals computed.",
    "NAME — the undated and the unreadable.",
    "RECORD — the timeline.",
    "LEDGER — write the ledger line."
  ],
  "never": [
    "a date guessed",
    "an undated event placed by feel",
    "the events judged"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Order by date, never by the order written.",
    "An undated event is named, not placed.",
    "A year alone reads as the first of January, and the card says so."
  ],
  "box": [
    "references/THE-METHOD.md",
    "EVALS.json",
    "EVALS.md",
    "scripts/evals.py",
    "CARD.md · SKILL.md · TIN.md · START-HERE.md · MY-LEDGER.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · the doors · the faces"
  ],
  "score": 68,
  "tier": "EPIC",
  "layer": "MANIFEST",
  "score_line": "68 EPIC · MANIFEST",
  "proof": "METHOD SEAT · 4 TESTS ABOARD · NOT YET RUN ON A HOST",
  "cut": "2026-10-03",
  "from": "THE SHELF CUT (Sep 8 2026, the chat \"General check-in\"), Nº 072–103 proposed; rebuilt from its own words on Oct 3 2026 and seated on \"put them all on the lundr.tech theme\"; the first cut (THE SHELF CUT, Sep 8 2026) carried a machine, scripts/timeline.py, and scored 98 WITNESSED; this edition is rebuilt from that cut's own words and does not carry the machine yet — it returns, and the mark with it, when the machine is recovered from that session",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "A list of events with dates goes in; they are put in order, the interval between neighbours is computed, a date that cannot be read is refused, and every event that carries no date is named.",
      "A year alone reads as the first of January, and the card says so."
    ]
  },
  "lsc": "LSC-1",
  "punch": "7CB45121DA1BCBAB537AB2E0",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "7cb45121da1bcbab537ab2e0d4e556bdceae4db14879e0416804d29ca6ef2a9f",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}