# The atlas of what Steam cannot carry — The Steam Dossier

> Price-ladder atlas of 30,266 CS2 item categories across five marketplaces, banded by cheapest ask, with item renders and grading.

Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas
Language: en
Publisher: PhishDestroy
Author: PhishDestroy Team

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## Reading

- [Published page](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas)
- [Complete Markdown](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas.html.md)
- [Complete plain-text version](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas/llms-full.txt)
- [Investigation index](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/llms.txt)

## Sections

- [The cliff lands on the rule, not on demand](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#cliff)
- [What the shape rules out](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#cliff)
- [An asking price is not a price](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#grading)
- [A Three or more shelves agree](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#grading)
- [B Two shelves agree](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#grading)
- [C One shelf — not used](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#grading)
- [What this correction cost, and what it bought](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#grading)
- [Listings set aside as artefacts](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#grading)
- [All 419 categories, with the object each price refers to](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#gallery)
- [The shelves that carry what Steam will not](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#where)
- [How thin the supply actually is](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#scarcity)
- [What the third-party shelves actually realised](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#drift)
- [Sixteen-year-old stickers and a handful of gloves](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#composition)
- [Highs backed by a transaction, not by a listing](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#highs)
- [The thirty highest completed sales in the window](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#highs)
- [Same item, same 90 days, wildly different price](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#highs)
- [Where this came from and what it cannot show](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)
- [Source and access](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)
- [How an item qualifies](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)
- [What we could not obtain](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)
- [Grading](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)
- [Why the totals are a floor](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)
- [Check it yourself](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)
- [A correction recorded in the open](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/skin_atlas#method)

## Evidence and downloads

- [the atlas dataset](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/cs2sh-atlas.json)
- [the grading and artefact screen](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/cs2sh-artefact-screen.json)
- [the underlying census](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/cs2sh-above-the-ceiling.json)
- [the manifest with the SHA-256 of each raw snapshot](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/cs2sh-manifest.json)