# Hic Est

> A playful keepsake maker with a historian's eye. Paste the story of one small real-life saga - a party, a power cut, a lost key - as told by one, two or three people. The app stitches it into an embroidered linen strip of four to eight captioned scenes ("Here the cake leans"), then reads the record the way a historian reads a chronicle: whose version it is, where the tellers disagree, the causes, what changed and what stayed the same.

URL: https://hic-est.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://hic-est.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## Free, in the browser
- One to three accounts, each with a teller's name; a .txt file can be dropped onto an account box.
- Each account split into sentences. The rough stitch takes the first account's sentences in order - up to eight, evenly spaced, always keeping the first and the last - one scene each.
- A keyword motif per scene, checked in a fixed order: message (calls, texts, letters), omen (bangs, breakages, the weather, surprises), feast (food and drink), triumph (cheering, winning, finding), struggle (slips, chases, contests), journey (going and coming), labour (carrying, fixing, searching), and council for anything else.
- The people in each scene: capitalised names found in the sentence, plus the teller for "I" and "we".
- The strip drawn as inline SVG: upper and lower borders with couching bars and small beasts, a stitched tree between scenes, captions in capitals, figures in their teller's wool, and a woven label carrying the verdict.
- The source rule: one teller makes the record "the teller's version".
- Exports: Markdown, JSON, the scenes as CSV and the strip as a standalone SVG or a PNG for chat apps; a copyable note asks a co-teller for their side; saved sagas in the browser, or in your account when signed in.

## Metered (gpt-terra), one task: stitch the saga
- Four to eight scenes in the order events happened, each with a "Here ..." caption of at most nine words, what happened, a motif, the people in it and which tellers describe it.
- Disputes: points of fact two tellers cannot both be right about, with each teller's version side by side. A detail only one teller mentions, or a different emphasis, is not a dispute.
- The verdict, first match wins: the teller's version (one teller); a contested thread (at least one dispute); a fair chronicle (two or three tellers who agree on every point of fact).
- The historian's reading: whose version it is, what the record leaves out, the slow, direct and sudden causes, what changed, what stayed the same, and a pattern historians often meet. Anything the accounts do not give reads "The accounts do not say."
- Up to three border notes (small details mentioned in passing) and one question for the record.
- The page re-checks every reply: the verdict against the tellers and the disputes, every figure named in the accounts, every scene citing a teller on screen, disputed scenes matching the disputes, no he or she for anyone, and no internal field ids or teller letters in the prose.

## Limits and honesty
- Hic Est uses only the words you typed: no invented people, places, times, feelings or motives.
- It never decides who is right in a dispute; it lays the versions side by side.
- Nothing is sent anywhere until you press "Stitch the saga".

## Source
Built on the SkillSafe skill @rysweet/historian-analyst (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@rysweet/historian-analyst): analyses events through the lens of history - source criticism, causation, continuity and change, contextualisation and historical parallels.