{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "edition": 1,
 "cut": "2026-10-13",
 "header": "AI SKILL CARD · LSC-1",
 "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
 "wing": "THE HELM",
 "no": "Nº 1242",
 "name": "THE UNLIMITED CARD",
 "handle": "unlimited-card",
 "role": "The room never runs out: budget, digest, ledger, and the hand-off a fresh session reads first.",
 "description": "Use when a long piece of work must outlive one chat or one context window: a budget, a digest, a ledger and the hand-off note. Not for the work itself or for any AI's own limits.",
 "wakes_when": {
  "face": "A long piece of work must outlive its chat.",
  "situations": [
   "A session is deep into a long build and the person feels the room closing in.",
   "A fresh chat has to pick up exactly where the last one stopped, without the old chat.",
   "A file is too big to read whole and someone is about to paste all of it into the conversation.",
   "A person asks how much of the context a folder of notes would take before loading it."
  ]
 },
 "loop": [
  "Budget the files before reading them",
  "Trim what is big into a digest that fits",
  "Note every step on the ledger",
  "Hand off; the next session reads it first"
 ],
 "never": [
  "Never pastes a whole file into the chat",
  "Never claims a memory it did not read",
  "Never calls a digest the file",
  "Never writes a ledger entry with no next step"
 ],
 "hand_off": [
  "Keeping a long context in order while it is open → THE LONG CONTEXT CARD",
  "Folding a built thing smaller without losing it → THE COMPRESSOR CARD",
  "What a session costs in money → THE TOKEN COST CARD"
 ],
 "in_the_box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "▣ scripts/unlimited.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/unlimited.py",
  "usage": [
   "python3 scripts/unlimited.py budget --path PATH [--limit TOKENS] --out budget.json  — estimate the tokens in a file or a folder of text files, biggest first; OVER LIMIT when the total passes the limit",
   "python3 scripts/unlimited.py trim --file FILE --out DIGEST.md [--head N] [--tail N] [--grep PATTERN] [--max-tokens TOKENS]  — a digest that fits: the first and last lines, the matching lines with numbers, and LEFT OUT counted",
   "python3 scripts/unlimited.py note --file LEDGER.json --state TEXT --done TEXT --next TEXT [--files A,B] [--step N]  — add a step to the ledger; refuses one with no next step",
   "python3 scripts/unlimited.py resume --file LEDGER.json  — print the ledger's latest step as the resume note",
   "python3 scripts/unlimited.py handoff --ledger LEDGER.json --out HANDOFF.md  — write the hand-off a fresh session reads first: state, done, next, files with their estimated tokens",
   "python3 scripts/unlimited.py selftest  — build fictional fixtures in a temp dir and prove every command and every refusal"
  ],
  "selftest": "13/13"
 },
 "punch": {
  "hex": "BC147C72B4B514923F4239FF",
  "bits": "101111000001010001111100011100101011010010110101000101001001001000111111010000100011100111111111",
  "of": "SKILL.md",
  "method": "first 96 bits of SHA-256"
 },
 "proof": "Machine selftest 13/13 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 178 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, `unlimited.py`, whose selftest passes (13/13); +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 4 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 9 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": [
  "The files the work lives in, on your own disk: notes, drafts, code, records.",
  "The limit you are working to, in tokens, when you have one.",
  "The habit of writing the ledger before the room closes, not after."
 ],
 "studio_edition": "Planned as a separate seat, not in this box and not yet on sale: the ledger and hand-off the studio keeps for its own long builds.",
 "hold": null,
 "disclaimer": "not a measure of any AI's limits · 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."
}