CB-WP-0012-T02: adversarial review — not approvable as written

Four of six challenges conceded; the survey's two main arguments are
replaced rather than clarified.

C1  The survey concluded the sub-100k region was empty without ever
    measuring it. It is not empty: tiny-skia fits at 83,956, and the
    real windowed floor is fltk at 140,079 — 1.5x corrected headroom,
    not 128x. "Two orders of magnitude" is withdrawn.

C1b Following that concession: wgpu+winit is 1,741,979 marginal lines
    against a 250,000 target. AM-4a is incompatible with INTENT stage 2
    by 7x, and has been since both were written. Raised for the
    maintainer; deliberately not decided by this pass.

C2  "Marginal cost zero" was scored on an axis chosen to produce zero,
    and the same relocation already flattered sdl2 and fltk in the
    survey's own table. One acquisition rule now covers all three, and
    it raises two candidates' cost rather than lowering the winner's.

C3  The survey contradicted itself on the second-use rule. cb-render-api
    and cb-render-null are withdrawn; cb-render-html ships against the
    existing Project trait, and the port waits for stage 2's second use.

C6  The candidate measurements did carry a positive control. The C1
    batch did not — it copied dep-weight.py's measurement function
    without its guards — and was re-measured under them before being
    cited. Figures reproduced unchanged. The HTML row is relabelled
    0 by construction, not by measurement.

C4/C5 become six controls binding on ADR-0007.

The recommendation stands. The reasoning that reached it does not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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```task
id: CB-WP-0012-T02
status: todo
status: done
priority: high
```
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A review that ratifies the survey without producing a control the survey
lacked has not run.
**Done 2026-08-02.** [challenge](../history/260802-render-port-challenge.md),
[response](../history/260802-render-port-response.md). **Not approvable as
written** — four of six challenges conceded, and the survey's two main
arguments replaced.
- **C1**: the survey concluded the sub-100k region was empty without
measuring it. It is not empty. `tiny-skia` fits at 83,956; the real
windowed floor is `fltk` at **140,079 — 1.5×** corrected headroom, not
128×. "Two orders of magnitude" withdrawn.
- **C1b**, which the concession exposed: `wgpu` + `winit` is **1,741,979**
marginal lines against a 250,000 target. **AM-4a is incompatible with
INTENT stage 2** — 7× the whole target — and has been since both were
written. Raised for the maintainer, deliberately not decided here.
- **C2**: "marginal cost zero" was scored on an axis chosen to produce
zero, and the same move already flattered `sdl2`/`fltk`. One acquisition
rule now covers all three, and it *raises* two candidates' cost.
- **C3**: the survey contradicted itself on the second-use rule.
**`cb-render-api` and `cb-render-null` are withdrawn from this pass.**
- **C4/C5**: six controls adopted as binding on ADR-0007 — a loopback
token with a mutation-backed refusal test, JS barred from constructing
commands, and the coverage gate crossing the language boundary.
- **C6**: the candidate measurements did carry a positive control (empty
`unlocated` for all seven, verified). The C1 batch did **not** — it
copied the measurement function without the guards — and was re-measured
under them before being cited. The HTML row is relabelled *0 by
construction, not by measurement*.
**Fidelity note:** the review ran in the same session as the survey rather
than a separate one, per this environment's standing instruction not to
spawn agents unasked. It therefore inherits the author's sampling and is a
lower bound on what a separate reviewer would find.
**Note on tier:** this pass no longer creates a capability port, which was
its structural trigger for tier L. The declaration and its roll stand — a
tier that changes because review shrank the work would be a function of the
outcome. Recorded as the CHAOS window's second entry.
## Task: ADR-0007 — the render port
```task