# Pucker Check

> A ripeness check for persimmons. Describe up to six fruit by shape, feel, colour, skin and days on the counter. The page draws them on a wooden tray and tags each one by a fixed rule; one metered run checks the claim "ready to eat without the pucker" for each fruit and says what to do next.

URL: https://pucker-check.skillsafe.ai/
API: https://pucker-check.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## What it does
- Free, in the browser: the tray drawing (SVG and PNG downloads), a firmness gauge per fruit, the page's own verdict per fruit with a fixed check to try before biting, a two-day re-check reminder (.ics) when something is not ready, and, on a saved tray reopened later, which verdicts changed.
- Verdict rule, first match wins: past it (mould, or a note about fuzz, sliminess, rot, fizz or a sour, boozy or off smell); ready (pointed, astringent kind that is jelly-soft and deep orange; squat, non-astringent kind that is not hard and not green; kind unknown but jelly-soft and deep orange); unsure (kind unknown and not jelly-soft yet); not yet (everything else).
- Eat first: the softest ready fruit; ties go to a split skin, then more days on the counter, then the earlier fruit.
- Metered task `check` (gpt-terra): one entry per fruit with the verdict, the claim checked, evidence for and against from that fruit's own description, one test to try before biting and a next step; plus the one to eat first and a ripening tip when something is not ready. Health, baby and pet questions are declined.
- The page re-checks every reply against its own rule and flags differences.

## Why persimmons
Persimmons arrive in autumn, often as gifts, and the kind is rarely labelled. The astringent kind is full of tannin until it is jelly-soft, which is what makes the mouth pucker.

## Sources
- SkillSafe skill: https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@cursor/verify-this (restate a claim so it can fail, weigh evidence, return verified, not verified or inconclusive).

## Limits
A kitchen toy, not medical, nutrition or professional advice. Eating a lot of unripe astringent persimmon has been linked to stomach blockages; never eat a mouldy fruit. Nothing is stored unless you press save.