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The Authoring Kit
Everything needed to mine a technic and write it into the manual’s form: the method, the sources it is mined from, the filter it must pass, and the contract its output has to meet. Plain text throughout, so it works in whatever tool you already use.
stamp-engine-kit-v0.1.zip
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A checksum for every file travels inside the kit. State the kit version with any submission — without it, a reviewer cannot tell whether a technic disagrees with its sources or simply predates their revision.
What is inside
- 1 Start here What the kit is, how the parts relate, and what to check before you submit anything.
- 2 The method How a technic is mined from a source, filtered, and written into the manual’s form.
- 3 Instructions for your tool Paste-ready setup for whatever assistant or editor you work in. No account with anyone is required.
- 4 The middle layer Four co-equal texts, each working the same anatomy at a different scale. A technic can be mined from any of them.
- 5 The filter The test every mined candidate is held against. It sits above the middle layer rather than inside it.
- 6 The quarry The oldest and least coherent source. Ore, not doctrine — see the notice below before you open it.
- 7 The output contract The shape a finished technic has to take, the grading standard it will be held to, and three worked examples.
Read this before you open part 6
The quarry is unfiltered, and that is deliberate. Part 6 is the raw source the manual was mined from. It is not a draft of the manual and it is not senior to anything. Where it disagrees with the filter in part 5, the filter wins.
Four categories were excluded from the manual outright, whatever their source: surveillance and enemy-hunting apparatus, ciphers and clearance structures, licensing that lets one body authorise another to operate, and militant drill and rank. All four appear in the quarry. They are named and dropped in the open rather than quietly omitted, because a filter nobody can see is indistinguishable from a filter nobody applied.
So be clear about what downloading this gives you: the unfiltered source and the method for authoring from it, together. The filtering is not performed by the kit. Nothing in these files prevents excluded material being mined back out and submitted as though it had passed.
The quarry is not published as a page on this site, and it is not hidden either. It ships in tracked source inside this kit and is readable in the public repository. The choice is about placement, not access: ore belongs with the method for working it, not beside the finished manual where a reader meets it cold.
What stands against that is a person reading the result. Every submitted technic is graded by someone who is not its author, against the standard in part 7, and the four excluded categories are checked there. That gate is human, it is the only thing holding this line, and it is the reason the ore can be handed over at all. Sending it out for scrutiny is a stronger position than keeping it out of sight — but only while the reading actually happens.
One further constraint governs every entry, and it is the one most often missed. A technic teaches a group how to form its own strategy. It never hands one over. Anything that supplies a strategy rather than a method is refused on that ground alone, however well sourced it is and however much the group might want it.
New technics are authored from this kit, by people, in whatever tool they choose. Nothing generates them on this site.
Part 3 of the kit sets the rule for assistance: it is permitted, and hiding it is not. The Foundation authored the founding cohort working with an AI assistant and states so on Start Here. If you use one, say what it contributed and what you did, and send that statement with the submission — the same standard, applied to whoever is holding the pen.
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