# Do Not Dig Here

> A playful far-future warning marker for something ordinary nobody should open - the tub at the back of the fridge,
> the drawer of tangled cables, the box in the attic. Written for a stranger who shares none of your names, dates,
> slang or in-jokes, in the tradition of long-term warning messages: a top line anyone could get, a short warning,
> four plain facts, the full record and pictograms.

URL: https://do-not-dig-here.skillsafe.ai/
API: https://do-not-dig-here.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## What it does

- Free, in the browser: a drift scan of your own warning note (names, dates and numbers, slang, capitals and
  shouting, in-jokes), a provisional verdict, pictogram guesses from your facts, and a granite marker with a slider
  that weathers words away from today to 10,000 years (a playful model, not a prediction).
- Metered, one task (`carve`, on gpt-terra): the four layers of the marker, 2 to 4 pictograms from a fixed set of
  twelve, every phrase in the draft that will not survive with a plain swap, a verdict on the draft, a line for a
  five-year-old in the house today, and how a far-future finder might misread the top line.
- The verdict is a fixed rule, checked in order: fresh carving (no draft); recarve it (the draft never says what or
  where, or 3 or more phrases will not survive); patch it (1 or 2); will last (none).
- The page re-checks every carving against the form: the verdict against the rule, every scanned phrase answered,
  word limits, the sealed year, the pictogram set, no name from the draft on the marker.

## Input fields (strings)

task (always carve), thing, where, sealed, danger, wish, tone (deadpan, solemn, frantic), horizon (1 year, 100
years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years), draft, drift_scan, optional clip_note and retry_note.

## Sources

- Built on the SkillSafe skill @dreambigou/eli5 - explaining anything at the level of one specific audience; here
  the audience is a stranger thousands of years away. https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@dreambigou/eli5
- Prompted by deep geological repositories for spent nuclear fuel and the long-running problem of warning readers
  far in the future. The page uses no data about any real repository.