RAID Stunt: The Carry Test

A stunt with no budget either carries on its own or it doesn't happen. This applies the carry test before anything gets built, which asks whether a stranger would pass it on, and whether your name survives the trip.

It sets a floor, so a stunt can't be cheap at the cost of being embarrassing, and it catalogues the failure modes that make stunts backfire. Section 4 is the one people skip: claim discipline still binds a stunt. The format being playful doesn't license a number nobody can source.

It closes by naming what it doesn't decide, so a stunt stays one move inside a campaign rather than becoming the campaign.

This is one of the eleven RAID skills. It reads and writes the shared .monkeys/ pack, so it works on its own and works better alongside the rest.

Where this came from

Deliberon is a Windows desktop app that runs a council of AI agents on a hard decision and hands back a Decision Record: dissent preserved, every claim marked as proved, asserted, or estimated.

Stunt is the one place in the system where being interesting is the whole mechanism, so it gets the strictest test.

Pay once, it's yours, no subscription. Thirty days of the full council with no account and no card. Runs on your machine with your own model keys.

https://deliberon.com

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