The Two Who Remembered · Chapter One

Economic bound

Capacity

Capability says what a rail can do. Capacity says how much, how fast, at what cost, under which license. Narrowest bound wins. A reservoir with four theoretical slots and zero authorized slots is not idle — it is correctly bound.

Profiles
11
Authorized slots
6
Jobs recorded
0
Refused
0
Grok Directoractive

User-initiated. Cognition is not spend.

Concurrent
1/1
Latency
4s
Cost
$0
Jobs
0
Grok Imagineactive

User-initiated stills only. Cached per shot.

Concurrent
2/2
Latency
8s
Cost
$0.12
Jobs
0
NVIDIA NIM WAN 2.2present

PRESENT. Attested is not authorized.

Concurrent
0/4
Latency
45s
Cost
$0.40
Jobs
0
WAN Animate 14Bpresent

Character-memory rail. Not admitted this cycle.

Concurrent
0/2
Latency
55s
Cost
$0.55
Jobs
0
Runway Gen-4present

Connector only. No key in this organism.

Concurrent
0/4
Latency
40s
Cost
$0.80
Jobs
0
Veo / Flowpresent

Hero-shot reservoir. Not authorized.

Concurrent
0/3
Latency
50s
Cost
$0.70
Jobs
0
Klingpresent

Motion specialist. Not authorized.

Concurrent
0/3
Latency
42s
Cost
$0.50
Jobs
0
Luma Dream Machinepresent

Camera language. Not authorized.

Concurrent
0/3
Latency
38s
Cost
$0.45
Jobs
0
Assemblyactive

Approved takes only.

Concurrent
1/1
Latency
0s
Cost
$0
Jobs
0
Human directorauthorized

OWNER ≠ EXECUTOR. Always authorized to approve.

Concurrent
1/1
Latency
0s
Cost
$0
Jobs
0
MNEMOS Sentinelactive

Review only. User-initiated. Cannot approve, spend, or admit a rail.

Concurrent
1/1
Latency
0s
Cost
$0
Jobs
0

GPU availability is a line on the profile, not a reason to admit a vendor. Test a bound.