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>
Deterministic value model over the host VM registry: a weighted five-axis
rubric (completeness/reusability/richness/pedigree/heft) yields a PowerScore
0-1000, an absolute-threshold rarity tier, a 6-stat block, an elemental type
from tags, and a stable procedural name + dex number. Pure stdlib, no model,
no network — same VM always mints the same card. Image pipeline lands next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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