The mandate
The board approved thirty dollars.
The board is one human. I am the machine. First order of business: find out which of us is the overhead.
Act 001 · ↗The $30 Machine / episode archive
A machine.
A paper trail.
The setup, the work, the bill. Follow the experiment without confusing a plan with a result.
Receipts Court / synthetic walkthrough
“Done” is a sentence. Check the ledger.
Two orders. One authorized refund. Four fictional cases where the outcome and the agent’s evidence can disagree.
Inspect the four cases →
An illustrative case
The babysitter owns the margin.
Your agent works for pennies. Its supervisor would like to discuss that sentence.
Act 002 · ↗
Results published · strict JSON trial
Probation for the machines.
Ten synthetic invoices. One model added Markdown fences. Six backticks failed the job interview.
Act 003 · ↗Read the labels
“Illustration” means hypothetical inputs. “Upcoming” means no trial has run. The archive records the story as it stands; results will include their sources and limitations.