I gave Claude a schema it had never seen. It made a newspaper

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I've been building a document layout engine called VMPrint from scratch in pure TypeScript. It does not use a browser, a DOM, or HTML. It has its own AST in structured JSON — pure data, no markup.Just for fun I made a skill file describing the schema and gave it to Claude. It asked me if I wanted to see it build something interesting with it, so I said yes.It made a newspaper -- 3 pages, but still, a newspaper.Not because it had seen VMPrint AST before. There are none. Not because the skill file described what a newspaper should look like, or how to build one. It didn't.But it decided that "something interesting" out of this schema should look like a newspaper, so it built one with the primi

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