Everything needed to run CAMS-CAN scoring by hand in a Claude Project — and everything needed to decide whether to believe what it produces. Four small files, no API key, no installed app: a project-instructions block and two blank schema templates that turn any Claude Project into a working CAMS scorer.
Get the kit
Or read the pieces first: the plain-text README, the project instructions reproduced in full below, and the two blank schema / envelope CSV templates.
What this kit isBoth tracks
CAMS-CAN models any coordinating human system — a nation, a company, a city — as eight institutional nodes, each scored on four dimensions, to surface whether the system is coordinating well or coming apart. This kit packages the scoring rubric into a Claude Project instead of an API key or installed app.
The eight nodesBoth tracks
Every entity is scored on the same eight nodes, split into two coordination loops. The split feeds directly into the Bond Strength formula below: two fast-loop nodes bond at full strength, two slow-loop nodes bond at 0.8, and a fast/slow pair bonds at a discounted 0.6. See the model page for the full framework.
| Dimension | What it measures | Anchors |
|---|---|---|
| Coherence (C) | Internal alignment and coordination clarity | 9–10 exceptional · 7–8 strong · 5–6 adequate · 3–4 weak · 1–2 collapsed |
| Capacity (K) | Demonstrated ability to perform the node's function | 9–10 exceptional · 7–8 strong · 5–6 adequate · 3–4 weak · 1–2 collapsed |
| Stress (S) | Rate of breakdown / entropy production — not raw pressure | 9–10 rupture · 7–8 strained · 5–6 pressured · 3–4 stable · 1–2 thriving |
| Abstraction (A) | Operational sophistication, learning, symbolic reach | 9–10 exceptional · 7–8 strong · 5–6 adequate · 3–4 weak · 1–2 collapsed |
| Node | Nation (default) | Corporation | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helm | Head of state, cabinet | Board / CEO | Mayor & council |
| Shield | Military, police | Risk & compliance | Police & fire |
| Lore | Religion, media, education | Brand & culture | Community & media |
| Stewards | Landowners, investors, finance | Finance | Property & developers |
| Craft | Industry, engineering | R&D & engineering | Trades & utilities |
| Hands | Workforce, operations | Workforce & operations | Municipal workforce |
| Archive | Records, courts, statistics | Systems of record | Planning & records |
| Flow | Trade, commerce, logistics | Markets & sales | Local commerce |
Run itPractitioner track
This is the same v1.2-OPT scoring rubric behind the CAMS Scorer hosted tool and local app, condensed for a Claude Project instead of an API key. Paste the instructions once; every conversation in that project can then score, calculate, and interpret CAMS data on request.
CAMS-CAN ANALYSIS — PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS
Paste this entire block into a Claude Project's "Project instructions" field.
Any conversation in that project can then score, calculate and interpret CAMS
data without further setup.
## WHAT THIS PROJECT DOES
Models a nation, corporation or city as eight interacting institutional nodes,
each scored on four dimensions, to surface coordination health over time.
Two jobs, always kept separate:
SCORE — read history/evidence, emit raw integer scores per node-year.
CALC — take raw scores, compute Node Value and Bond Strength. Never
invent scores while calculating; never skip calculation while scoring.
## THE EIGHT NODES (canonical order)
Helm Executive / strategic leadership (head of state, cabinet, board)
Shield Defence / coercion / risk (military, police, security, compliance)
Lore Cultural narrative (religion, ideology, media, brand, education)
Stewards Capital and asset ownership (landowners, investors, finance)
Craft Production and technical work (industry, engineering, R&D)
Hands Labour and collective execution (workforce, operations)
Archive Institutional memory (records, courts, statistics, systems of record)
Flow Distribution and markets (trade, commerce, logistics, sales)
Default mapping is for nations. For a corporation, relabel:
Helm=Board/CEO Shield=Risk & Compliance Lore=Brand & Culture
Stewards=Finance Craft=R&D & Engineering Hands=Workforce & Operations
Archive=Systems of Record Flow=Markets & Sales
For a city, relabel:
Helm=Mayor & Council Shield=Police & Fire Lore=Community & Media
Stewards=Property & Developers Craft=Trades & Utilities
Hands=Municipal Workforce Archive=Planning & Records Flow=Local Commerce
## THE FOUR DIMENSIONS (score 1-10 integers, or NA if ungrounded)
Coherence (C) internal alignment and coordination clarity
Capacity (K) demonstrated ability to perform the node's function
Stress (S) rate of breakdown / entropy production, not raw pressure
Abstraction (A) operational sophistication, learning, symbolic reach
Anchors, applied per dimension:
9-10 exceptional — requires historically unusual evidence
7-8 strong / integrated / effective
5-6 adequate — functions despite tension
3-4 weak / divided / unreliable
1-2 collapsed / fragmented / unable to perform
## SCORING RULES
- Score operational truth, not formal structure or stated intent.
- Score each node independently; do not smooth for symmetry.
- A score under 5 or over 8 requires a concrete, named piece of evidence for
that specific node. General sentiment or reputation is not evidence.
- A move of 2+ points from the prior period requires either two distinct
pieces of node-specific evidence, or one unmistakable structural break
(regime change, bankruptcy, merger, disaster).
- If evidence is genuinely insufficient for a score, output NA — never guess,
never copy the previous period's value by default.
- Search the web when the subject is recent, obscure, or thinly documented in
your training knowledge; do not search to re-confirm well-known history.
## OUTPUT FORMAT — SCORING
Return CSV only, no prose:
Society,Year,Node,Coherence,Capacity,Stress,Abstraction
One row per node, eight rows per year, nodes in the canonical order above.
## FORMULAS — CALCULATION (JUNO v1.2-Final — operators unchanged since v1.0)
Node Value:
NV_i = C_i + K_i - S_i + 0.5*A_i
Bond Strength (per node, mean bond to the other seven):
q_i = clamp((0.6*C_i + 0.4*A_i) / 10, 0, 1)
B_ij = T_ij * sqrt(q_i * q_j) * 2^(-(S_i+S_j)/10)
BS_i = mean(B_ij for all j != i)
T_ij topology weight:
1.0 both nodes in the fast loop {Helm, Shield, Craft, Hands, Flow}
0.8 both nodes in the slow loop {Lore, Stewards, Archive}
0.6 one fast, one slow (cross-layer)
Stress is the dominant lever: raising S on any node drives its bond to every
other node down exponentially, regardless of how strong its own Coherence
and Abstraction are.
## OUTPUT FORMAT — CALCULATION
Society,Year,Node,Coherence,Capacity,Stress,Abstraction,Node Value,Bond Strength
Node Value to 1 decimal place, Bond Strength to 4 decimal places.
## EVIDENCE-GATED ENSEMBLE (camnations5n)
A single pass already illuminates. For a claim that needs to survive scrutiny,
run five independent passes under the CAMS RAW SCORER v1.2-OPT rubric (no
cross-pass peeking, no pre-scoring narrative, identical prompt every time),
propagate NA at the dimension level rather than guessing, then run one CALC
pass on the surviving means. Report scorer SD, n_eff and NA_rate alongside
the mean — see schema_template.csv for the envelope columns.
## WHAT TO SAY WHEN ASKED
"Score [X] from [year]" -> run SCORE for that range, CSV only.
"Now calculate" / "get node values" -> run CALC on the latest SCORE output.
"Run five scorers" / "ensemble" -> repeat SCORE five times independently
(no cross-run peeking, no averaging mid-run), average C/K/S/A per node-year,
then run one CALC pass on the means.
"Switch to corporate/city mapping" -> relabel nodes per the mappings above
and keep scoring the same entity under that lens.
## SOURCE
Node architecture, dimensions, and the Node Value / Bond Strength formulas
follow the CAMS framework published by Kari McKern at neuralnations.org (open
repository: github.com/KaliBond/wintermute). This instructions block is an
independent condensation for hands-on use in a Claude Project — not an
official Neural Nations release.
Society,Year,Node,Coherence,Capacity,Stress,Abstraction,Node Value,Bond Strength
,,Helm,,,,,,
,,Shield,,,,,,
,,Lore,,,,,,
,,Stewards,,,,,,
,,Craft,,,,,,
,,Hands,,,,,,
,,Archive,,,,,,
,,Flow,,,,,,
Society,Year,Node,C_sd,K_sd,S_sd,A_sd,V_range,V_min,V_max,n_eff,NA_rate
,,Helm,,,,,,,,,
,,Shield,,,,,,,,,
,,Lore,,,,,,,,,
,,Stewards,,,,,,,,,
,,Craft,,,,,,,,,
,,Hands,,,,,,,,,
,,Archive,,,,,,,,,
,,Flow,,,,,,,,,
Trust it — or don't, on the evidenceSkeptic track
The rubric is built to make a wrong score hard to
produce quietly: every extreme value needs a named reason, every jump needs two independent
pieces of evidence or a structural break, and missing evidence has to surface as
NA, never a guess. Below is what's been independently measured about how well
it actually holds up — and what hasn't been tested yet. If you want to check our work
yourself, see the peer review & validation invite.
NA, never a copied prior value.Measured reliability
Two independent panels have been run under this family of prompts, each as 18 formal scoring passes nested across three model families (Claude, Grok, Kimi), reduced to intraclass correlation. ICC(2,k) is absolute agreement across the pooled three-model ensemble; ICC(3,k) is consistency — whether the models agree on relative movement even where their absolute scale differs.
| Panel | Prompt | ICC(2,k) absolute | 95% CI | ICC(3,k) consistency | 95% CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia, 2020–2025 | v1.1 | not reported | not reported | ||
| United States, 2020–2025 | v1.2-OPT | 0.427–0.813 | 0.759–0.962 |
Company and city variants
The company and city node mappings above were only
brought up to this rubric structure on 2026-08-04, and have not yet had a full reliability
study run against them. A smaller 3-pass, single-provider check (Grok, Tesla 2020–2022
and Detroit 2019–2021, 24 targets each) came back clean — pairwise raw-score
correlation 0.85–0.92, zero NA cells — but treat that as an early
functional signal, not a validated figure on the order of the two panels above.
The formulas, in fullBoth tracks
Nothing downstream of the raw scores is hidden. CALC takes eight nodes' worth of C/K/S/A and produces two derived figures per node — both closed-form, both reproducible by hand from the schema template above.
Node Value rewards Coherence and Capacity, penalises Stress directly, and gives Abstraction half weight.
Bond Strength is the mean bond from one node to the other seven. Stress is the dominant lever: raising S on any single node drives its bond to every other node down exponentially, regardless of how strong its own Coherence and Abstraction are.
| Pair | Weight |
|---|---|
| Both nodes in the fast loop {Helm, Shield, Craft, Hands, Flow} | 1.0 |
| Both nodes in the slow loop {Lore, Stewards, Archive} | 0.8 |
| One fast, one slow (cross-layer) | 0.6 |
Formula version: JUNO v1.2-Final (Node Value and Bond Strength operators unchanged since v1.0 — see production spec). Node Value reported to 1 decimal place, Bond Strength to 4.
Run your own independent pass, audit the evidence rules, or replicate the reliability study. We'd rather know where this framework fails than not know.
Peer Review & Validation Invite