Rarity was inflating to 65% Legendary: the loop mass-produces ~70 near-clone
VMs that look near-identical on every axis, so no absolute PowerScore threshold
can create scarcity within that cluster. Fix (option C, hybrid):
- grade_curve() is now the primary rarity mechanism — a population quota
(Leg 8 / Epic 15 / Rare 25 / Uncommon 27 / Common 25%) ranked by PowerScore
with a deterministic label-seed tiebreak. Yields a clean 8/15/26/27/24%
pyramid. Rebuilds each card's rarity-dependent name + flavor via _apply_rarity.
- Absolute RARITY_TIERS kept as a single-card (--label) fallback, recalibrated.
- Dead axes repaired: _pedigree now derives from author lineage (human/hh-loop/
pulled/smoke) instead of a flat 2.0; _heft rescaled to a 512MB log reference
so it spreads instead of pinning mid-size VMs at the cap.
cardimg: apply grade_curve to the gallery so rendered cards match hh-cardex,
plus the interactive 3D flip-card gallery (--flip: front dossier / back stats).
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Add a status field to Card (from the registry entry) and render it as a
done/in-progress pill on the card art. Add `cardimg --gallery`: render every
VM as an inline-SVG card and lay them out in one self-contained index.html
grid (sorted by rarity, with a spread tally) for browser viewing / screenshot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retune cardex against the live 24-VM library: the old rubric tied 11 VMs at
615 Rare (completeness/reusability maxed for any done+shareable VM, only heft
varied). Rebalance the five sub-score caps (richness 20→30 becomes the
discriminator via per-tag CAPABILITY_WEIGHT; heft log2-scaled) and recalibrate
the rarity thresholds. Library now spreads 2 Legendary / 3 Epic / 16 Rare /
2 Uncommon / 2 Common instead of a single fat Rare band.
Add cmd_chat/cardimg.py: render a Card as a collectible trading-card image.
Free + local-first — a hand-built SVG frame (rarity holo, type badges, 6 stat
bars, dex#, flavor) plus a deterministic procedural creature sigil that needs
no network, rasterized to PNG via local cairosvg/ImageMagick. Pluggable art
backends are opt-in: free hosted Pollinations flux, and key-gated paid
Stability / OpenAI / RunwayML. Every backend only fills the portrait window,
so a card always renders fully offline; failures fall back to the sigil.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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