Identity
A stable card survives every revision and context.
An open product + protocol proposal
Make a card,
not a website.
Card Commons is a smaller creative primitive for the web: portable, editable, publishable, and playable.
PUBLIC / 01A web object
with a point of view.stable URL ↗
with a point of view.stable URL ↗
GAME / 02The website
was replaced by ____.pick 1
was replaced by ____.pick 1
ACTION / 03PASSplayable
The invariant
A card is a portable, editable,
publishable, playable web object.
Not a screenshot. Not a mini page. A structured object that can move among design, publication, collection, play, and remix.
The object
One source.
Many contexts.
Meaning and appearance stay connected without becoming the same thing. That is the hinge.
Meaning
Typed fields carry content, mechanics, sources, and accessibility.
Appearance
Bound layers and surfaces express the card without flattening it.
Context
Memberships, publications, games, and remixes add behavior.
The core loop
The card earns its place by moving.
- 01
Make
Choose a kind. Fill the fields. Shape a bounded surface.
- 02
Stack
Arrange cards in a deck, collection, series, or game.
- 03
Publish / play
Pin a revision to a URL or instantiate it in a session.
- 04
Remix
Fork the object and preserve its source.
Version 0.1
Concrete enough to build.
Open enough to test.
Nine engineering specifications, JSON Schema contracts, valid and invalid fixtures, an OpenAPI surface, and an evidence-led MVP plan.
And a working Card Studio: it creates the first card type today—with AI image generation verified live across six models. It is deployed and running now as a gated pilot, while the rest of the loop is still being built.
The invitation