CB-WP-0013-T02/T03: retire SH-3 as a gate; correct AM-4a and its target

ADR-0008, tier M (survey and ADR merged). D1 — SH-3 retired as a gate, kept as a diagnostic. Investigating it found a third defect, deeper than the two this pass was declared on. Re-deriving batching from the raw transcripts, independently of cb-cost: CB-WP-0011 pass 54 with tools 0 batched 0.0% gap -> next decl 16 with tools 6 batched 37.5% CB-WP-0012 pass 86 with tools 0 batched 0.0% gap -> next decl 10 with tools 1 batched 10.0% CB-WP-0013 so far 10 with tools 0 batched 0.0% Zero batched turns in 150 in-pass responses; 37.5% in one gap, above the 20% floor. Batching needs two calls whose inputs are known at once — orientation work. Implementation consumes each step's result before the next. SH-3's window is since the last commit, which during a pass is always implementation. The metric could not read above ~0% in the window it was gated on. A floor the window structurally excludes is not a target. This pass's own declaration was also wrong: it claimed batching "has got worse" (7.8-8.6% vs 1.1-6.3%). Differently-placed windows, not different behaviour. Withdrawn — the same class of error, in the pass written to correct it. Not retargeting to match the measurement: the floor was not moved to 6%, the gate was removed on an argument about what the quantity is worth. The number is still reported; only the verdict is gone. D2/D3 — AM-4a counts --edges normal,no-proc-macro: 157,202, not 246,250. The target moves down with it, 250,000 -> 161,000, so the correction hands back essentially nothing (headroom 3,750 -> 3,798). Three controls: the exclusion drops exactly the five expected crates, only removes and never adds, and is not a no-op. The DFD gate then caught the follow-on it exists for — three historical documents carrying live fact tags for a number that had changed. Not rewritten; untagged, with a supersession banner. AM-4b is deliberately not corrected: its proc-macro share is unmeasured. gate-review now reads 0 due, 0 silent, 0 drifted — GATE-REVIEW earns its first caught entry by forcing SH-3's re-justification, and the registry has no silent gates left. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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--- a/decisions/ADR-0004-am4-ratification.md
+++ b/decisions/ADR-0004-am4-ratification.md
@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # ADR-0004: ratify AM-4a and AM-4b

+> **Superseded measurement (ADR-0008 D2/D3, 2026-08-02).** The AM-4a
+> figures below were taken with an instrument that counted proc-macro
+> crates — 89,048 lines, 36.2% — which run in the compiler and never
+> reach a binary. Corrected, the same tree measures **157,202** against
+> a target moved to **161,000**. The numbers below are left as the
+> record of what was measured then, and are no longer live facts.
+
+
 status: accepted
 date: 2026-07-31
 decided by: maintainer (Bernd Worsch), 2026-07-31
@ -49,7 +57,7 @@ At the time of the retarget, `make dep-weight`:

 | configuration | crates | third-party LOC |
 |---|---|---|
-| shipped-runtime (`--no-default-features`) | 23 | **246,250** | <!-- fact:am4a_loc -->
+| shipped-runtime (`--no-default-features`) | 23 | **246,250** | <!-- historical: measured under the pre-ADR-0008 instrument; not a live fact -->
 | dev-toolchain (default features) | 29 | **317,021** | <!-- fact:am4b_loc -->
 | own source | — | 3,443 |

--- a/decisions/ADR-0008-instrument-corrections.md
+++ b/decisions/ADR-0008-instrument-corrections.md
@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+# ADR-0008: retire SH-3 as a gate; correct AM-4a to count what ships
+
+status: accepted
+date: 2026-08-02
+decided by: agent, under the standing loop authorization. One item is
+reserved for the maintainer — see §Reserved.
+tier: M (structural M — changes how the loop constrains its own operation:
+a gate floor and a budget instrument, InnerLoop v1.6 / ADR-0006 D5;
+chaos d4=3 → no override). Tier M merges survey and ADR into one document,
+which this is; the adversarial review is optional and was not run.
+references: [CB-WP-0013](../workplans/CB-WP-0013-instrument-corrections.md),
+[SessionShape.md](../specs/SessionShape.md) §4,
+[ADR-0006](ADR-0006-adaptive-control-gates.md) D1/D2/D4,
+[ADR-0007](ADR-0007-render-html-not-a-port.md) D4,
+[CB-EV-0010](../evidence/CB-EV-0010-render-port.md) §5
+
+## Context
+
+Two instruments were found wrong by the passes that used them. Neither
+error was in the direction that flattered us, and one of them has been
+producing a standing breach report for seven passes.
+
+---
+
+## Decision 1 — SH-3 is retired as a gate and kept as a diagnostic
+
+### The survey: three defects, each deeper than the last
+
+**First (CB-WP-0013 T01): the sample.** `--shape-budget` windows since the
+last commit and is read while writing the evidence file — right after a
+commit, when the window holds one or two responses. SH-1/SH-2 are location
+statistics and survive that. SH-3 is a rate; at n=2 its only values are
+0%, 50%, 100%. Six evidence files quoted the resulting `0.0%` as a
+measurement. Fixed: below a derived minimum of 14 the tool now prints
+`insufficient sample` and no verdict.
+
+**Second: the claimed decline was also an artifact.** This workplan's own
+Purpose stated that batching *"has got worse"* — pinned history 7.8–8.6%
+against per-pass windows of 1.1–6.3%. **That was wrong**, and by the same
+class of error it was written to correct. The two figures come from
+differently-placed windows, not from different behaviour. Withdrawn.
+
+**Third, and the one that decides this: the window and the metric are
+systematically anti-correlated.** Measured, by re-deriving batching
+independently of `cb-cost` from the raw transcripts:
+
+| window | responses with tools | batched | rate |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|
+| CB-WP-0011 pass | 54 | 0 | **0.0%** |
+| gap → next declaration | 16 | 6 | **37.5%** |
+| CB-WP-0012 pass | 86 | 0 | **0.0%** |
+| gap → next declaration | 10 | 1 | **10.0%** |
+| CB-WP-0013 so far | 10 | 0 | **0.0%** |
+
+**Zero batched turns in 150 in-pass responses across three passes, and
+37.5% in the gap between two of them** — comfortably above the 20% floor.
+
+The cause is not discipline. Batching requires two tool calls whose inputs
+are both known at once. Orientation and survey work is full of those: read
+four files, run three probes. Implementation has almost none, because each
+step consumes the previous step's result — read, edit, test, read the
+failure, fix. **So SH-3 measures what kind of work is happening.**
+
+And SH-3's window is *since the last commit*, which during a pass is
+always in-pass work. **The metric is structurally incapable of reading
+above ~0% in the window it is gated on.** It is not a strict gate — it can
+only be met by not working.
+
+### The decision
+
+**SH-3 stops being a gate.** The 20% floor and the `[SOFT]` verdict are
+removed. `cb-cost` continues to report the batching rate as a diagnostic,
+over the whole session, where it reads 5.8% (57 batched of 984 responses
+with tool calls).
+
+Four reasons, strongest first:
+
+1. **It cannot report what it gates on.** §above. A floor that the
+   measurement window structurally excludes is not a target.
+2. **It measures composition, not waste.** Penalising an implementation
+   pass for not batching penalises it for being an implementation pass.
+3. **Its own spec bounds its value.** `specs/SessionShape.md` §4:
+   *"eliminating every avoidable single-call turn would remove at most a
+   few percent of turns, worth roughly $2–4 on a $93 pass"*, and *"batch
+   because it is free, not because it is the lever."* It also calls SH-3
+   *"the least valuable"* of the three.
+4. **Seven passes, seven breach reports, zero actions.** ADR-0006 D4:
+   rituals cash out or go.
+
+### This is not retargeting to match the measurement
+
+`specs/SessionShape.md` forbids that explicitly, and CB-WP-0003 T07 exists
+to prevent it, so the distinction has to be stated rather than assumed:
+
+- **Retargeting** would be moving the floor from 20% to 6% because 6% is
+  what we measure. That is not done and is still forbidden.
+- **This** removes the gate on the argument that the *quantity* does not
+  deserve one — established before the disposition, from the window
+  structure and from the spec's own valuation.
+
+And the obvious objection — *retiring a metric right when it shows a
+regression looks like burying it* — is answered by the second defect: the
+regression was an artifact of window placement and has been withdrawn.
+There is no established decline to bury. The number is still reported;
+only the verdict is gone.
+
+## Decision 2 — AM-4a counts `--edges normal,no-proc-macro`
+
+ADR-0007 D4, owed. AM-4a's figure includes proc-macro crates that run in
+the compiler and never reach a binary: **89,048 lines, 36.2%** of the
+shipped-runtime figure, `syn` alone 66,916.
+
+`tools/dep-weight.py` measures `--edges normal,no-proc-macro` for the
+shipped-runtime configuration.
+
+## Decision 3 — the target moves down with the instrument
+
+Correcting the metric from 246,250 to 157,202 while leaving the target at
+250,000 would hand this project **89,048 lines of headroom it did not
+earn**, in the same commit that reveals the error. That is the shape of
+change this repo has twice refused, and refusing it here costs nothing:
+
+> **AM-4a's shipped-runtime target moves from 250,000 to 161,000.**
+
+161,000 preserves the *ratio* the ratified target expressed — 250,000 was
+set against a 246,250 measurement, i.e. ~1.5% of headroom; 161,000 against
+157,202 is ~2.4%. Rounding to a round number slightly *above* strict
+proportionality is deliberate and is the only place this decision gives
+anything back, because a target that leaves 1.5% of room is a target that
+fails on a dependency's patch release.
+
+**AM-4b (dev-toolchain) is left alone**, at 350,000 against a 317,021
+measurement. It is not corrected in this pass because its proc-macro share
+has not been measured, and correcting a second instrument on the strength
+of the first one's ratio is exactly the error this ADR exists to fix.
+Filed as owed.
+
+## Reserved for the maintainer
+
+**AM-4a still cannot survive INTENT stage 2**, and this decision makes that
+worse rather than better. `wgpu` + `winit` is 1,741,979 marginal lines
+against a target now proposed at 161,000 — **10.8×**, up from 7×. ADR-0007
+raised it; nothing here settles it. The correction below is honest
+book-keeping, not headroom for stage 2, and it should not be read as
+having made the stage-2 problem smaller.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- One fewer gate, and the gate registry gets its first retirement. That is
+  also **`GATE-REVIEW`'s first `caught` entry** — the registry's
+  `retire_if` says it must have *"retired, tightened, or forced the
+  re-justification of"* something by its review date, and it now has.
+- Every AM-4a figure in this repo's history overstates the load by 36%.
+  Those documents are history and are not rewritten; the correction lives
+  in `specs/GameKernel.md` §4 and here.
+- The batching diagnostic stays visible, so if in-pass batching ever
+  becomes possible the number will show it without a gate having to be
+  re-litigated first.
--- a/evidence/CB-EV-0001-game-kernel.md
+++ b/evidence/CB-EV-0001-game-kernel.md
@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # CB-EV-0001 — GROUND game kernel: acceptance evidence

+> **Superseded measurement (ADR-0008 D2/D3, 2026-08-02).** The AM-4a
+> figures below were taken with an instrument that counted proc-macro
+> crates — 89,048 lines, 36.2% — which run in the compiler and never
+> reach a binary. Corrected, the same tree measures **157,202** against
+> a target moved to **161,000**. The numbers below are left as the
+> record of what was measured then, and are no longer live facts.
+
+
 Status: **T08 complete. AM-4 remediated and re-measured 2026-07-31.**
 Recorded: 2026-07-31. Amended 2026-07-31 — §4 gains measured savings per
 remediation option, and §5 corrects AM-12 from "uncomputable" to
@ -28,7 +36,7 @@ the property is false? A row can be *measured* and still enforce nothing.
 | AM-1 rule coverage (GR only) | 100% of GR-rules | 58/58 (100%) | **met** | **yes** |
 | AM-1b link, ground | 58 claimed rules named in the aggregate | 49/58 | **unmet** | reported |
 | AM-1b link, kernel | 18 K-rules named in source | 15/18 | **unmet** | reported until 2026-08-31 |
-| AM-4a dep weight, shipped runtime | ≤250,000 third-party lines | 246,250 (23 crates) | **met** | **yes** | <!-- fact:am4a_loc -->
+| AM-4a dep weight, shipped runtime | ≤250,000 third-party lines | 246,250 (23 crates) | **met** | **yes** | <!-- historical: measured under the pre-ADR-0008 instrument; not a live fact -->
 | AM-4b dep weight, dev toolchain | ≤350,000 third-party lines | 317,021 (29 crates) | **met** | **yes** | <!-- fact:am4b_loc -->
 | AM-6 throughput | ≥100,000 events/s | 2,017,009 events/s (`make am6`) | **met, 20.2×** | **yes** — CB-WP-0006 T01 |
 | AM-7 scaling | ≥0.9× at 20× workload | 1.08× | **met** | **no** — no code computes the ratio |
@ -194,7 +202,7 @@ retargeted onto third-party source under audit.

 | Configuration | Crates | Third-party LOC | Target | Verdict |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| Shipped runtime (`--no-default-features`) | 23 | 246,250 | ≤250,000 | **met** | <!-- fact:am4a_loc --><!-- fact:am4a_target -->
+| Shipped runtime (`--no-default-features`) | 23 | 246,250 | ≤250,000 | **met** | <!-- historical: measured under the pre-ADR-0008 instrument; not a live fact -->
 | Dev toolchain (default features) | 29 | 317,021 | ≤350,000 | **met** | <!-- fact:am4b_loc --><!-- fact:am4b_target -->
 | Our own source | — | 3,408 | — | — |

--- a/facts.toml
+++ b/facts.toml
@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ generated = "2026-08-02"
 pin = "fc76445"

 [am4a_loc]
-value = 246250
-text = "246,250"
+value = 157202
+text = "157,202"
 fmt = "{:,}"
 by = "tools/dep-weight.py"

 [am4a_target]
-value = 250000
-text = "250,000"
+value = 161000
+text = "161,000"
 fmt = "{:,}"
 by = "tools/dep-weight.py TARGETS"

--- a/gates.toml
+++ b/gates.toml
@ -36,14 +36,15 @@ caught = [
 retire_if = "two consecutive passes never approach the soft line, or commits get small enough that the window is always trivial"

 [[gate]]
-id = "SH-1/SH-2/SH-3"
+id = "SH-1/SH-2"
 name = "session-shape budget"
 target = "shape-budget"
-checks = "mean and p90 context, and batching rate, since the last commit"
+checks = "mean and p90 context since the last commit (SH-3 retired as a gate, ADR-0008 D1 — still reported as a diagnostic)"
 added = "2026-08-01"
 review_by = "2026-11-30"
 caught = [
  "first run fired HARD at 656,574 against a 300,000 ceiling, which is what prompted the compaction before CB-WP-0008",
+  "CB-WP-0013: SH-3 retired from this gate. Its window is *since the last commit*, which during a pass is implementation work, and batching needs two calls whose inputs are known at once — which is orientation work. Measured: 0 batched turns in 150 in-pass responses across three passes, against 37.5% in the gap between two of them. A floor the window structurally excludes is not a target (ADR-0008 D1)",
 ]
 retire_if = "context stops correlating with cost, or the model's context handling makes the number unactionable"

@ -133,5 +134,7 @@ target = "gate-review"
 checks = "gates past their review date, and gates that have caught nothing"
 added = "2026-08-01"
 review_by = "2026-12-31"
-caught = []
+caught = [
+  "CB-WP-0013: forced SH-3's re-justification and then its retirement. `make gate-review` had reported SH-3 as a standing breach for seven passes with zero actions taken, which is this registry's own ritual test (ADR-0006 D4); asking what it had ever caught is what exposed that the metric could not read above ~0% in the window it was gated on (ADR-0008 D1)",
+]
 retire_if = "it has retired, tightened, or forced the re-justification of nothing by its review date — then it is a ritual, and ADR-0006 D4 says rituals cash out or go"
--- a/specs/GameKernel.md
+++ b/specs/GameKernel.md
@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ evidence lands in `evidence/CB-EV-0001-game-kernel.md` with no
 | AM-1 | M-D1-COV: GR-rules covered by ≥1 passing scenario | no candidate has any (observation) | **100%** of GR + U rules | measured by runner report |
 | AM-2 | M-D1-SPL: spec lines per rule in `games/ground` rules code (impl LOC ÷ rule count) | boardgame.io ~36 LOC for the 2-move synthetic game | ≤ 40 LOC/rule, paired with AM-1 (anti-gaming pair) | measured (tokei + rule count) |
 | AM-3 | Synthetic-workload definition size: LOC to express the CB-RES-0001 synthetic game on our kernel | ~36 LOC (boardgame.io, measured) | ≤ 50 LOC | measured |
-| AM-4a | M-D2-DEP: third-party LOC, **shipped runtime** (`--no-default-features`) | boardgame.io: 120 npm packages / 3.9M LOC | **≤ 250,000 lines** | measured (`make dep-weight`) |
-| AM-4b | M-D2-DEP: third-party LOC, **dev toolchain** (default features) | as above | **≤ 350,000 lines** | measured (`make dep-weight`) |
+| AM-4a | M-D2-DEP: third-party LOC, **shipped runtime** (`--no-default-features --edges normal,no-proc-macro`) | boardgame.io: 120 npm packages / 3.9M LOC | **≤ 161,000 lines** (ADR-0008 D3, was 250,000) | measured (`make dep-weight`) |
+| AM-4b | M-D2-DEP: third-party LOC, **dev toolchain** (default features) | as above | **≤ 350,000 lines** — *proc-macro share unmeasured; correction owed (ADR-0008 D2)* | measured (`make dep-weight`) |
 | ~~AM-4c~~ | M-D2-DEP: own source per third-party 100k lines | — | **WITHDRAWN from the acceptance table 2026-08-01 (CB-WP-0006 T04)** — retained as a reported diagnostic in `make dep-weight`; see §5a | diagnostic |
 | AM-5 | M-D2-BLD: clean release build of headless workspace | n/a (npm install ~seconds; not comparable) | ≤ 60 s on bnt-lap001, recorded not gated | measured |
 | AM-6 | M-D3-THR: applied events/s, synthetic workload, same machine | boardgame.io ~1,100–1,900 moves/s (best config, degrading) | **≥ 100,000/s** (stipulated target, ADR-0002) | measured |
--- a/tools/cb-cost.py
+++ b/tools/cb-cost.py
@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ def render(rep, by_task=False, composition=False):
                  f"need {SH3_MIN_SAMPLE}]")
        else:
            print(f"{indent}SH-3 batching rate  {100*sh['SH-3_batching_rate']:>11.1f}%   "
-                  f"[{'ok ' if sh['SH-3_batching_rate']>=0.20 else 'FAIL'} target 20.0%]")
+                  f"[diagnostic, no floor — ADR-0008 D1]")
        print(f"{indent}     {sh['tool_calls']} tool calls in "
              f"{sh['responses_with_tools']} responses; "
              f"{sh['calls_in_batched_turns']} in batched turns")
@ -808,8 +808,14 @@ def self_test():
          below.strip())
    check("SH-3 still reports at exactly the minimum sample",
          "insufficient sample" not in at and "0.0%" in at, at.strip())
-    check("SH-3 reports a real rate above the floor",
-          "40.0%" in good and "ok" in good, good.strip())
+    check("SH-3 reports a real rate, with no verdict attached",
+          "40.0%" in good and "no floor" in good and "FAIL" not in good,
+          good.strip())
+    # ADR-0008 D1: the gate is gone. A verdict reappearing here means a
+    # floor has been reintroduced without an ADR.
+    check("SH-3 carries no pass/fail verdict",
+          not any(v in sh3_line(win(40, 1)) for v in ("SOFT", "HARD", "FAIL", "[ok")),
+          sh3_line(win(40, 1)).strip())
    # The one that matters: a refusal must not read as a measured zero.
    check("a refusal is distinguishable from a genuine 0.0%",
          below != sh3_line(win(SH3_MIN_SAMPLE, 0)))
@ -853,9 +859,20 @@ SH3_MIN_SAMPLE = 14


 def sh3_line(win, min_sample=SH3_MIN_SAMPLE):
-    """SH-3, or an explicit refusal when the window cannot support a rate.
+    """SH-3 as a DIAGNOSTIC — no floor, no verdict (ADR-0008 D1).

-    Returns the line rather than printing it so the refusal is testable
+    Retired as a gate because the window and the metric are systematically
+    anti-correlated: batching needs two tool calls whose inputs are known
+    at once, which is orientation work, and this window is *since the last
+    commit*, which during a pass is implementation work. Measured across
+    three passes: 0 batched turns in 150 in-pass responses, against 37.5%
+    in the gap between two of them. A floor the window structurally
+    excludes is not a target.
+
+    The minimum-sample refusal is kept. A diagnostic may be ignored; it
+    may not be wrong, and a rate over two responses is wrong.
+
+    Returns the line rather than printing it so both branches are testable
    without capturing stdout — a guard that can only be checked by reading
    output is a guard that will be checked by nobody.
    """
@ -865,7 +882,7 @@ def sh3_line(win, min_sample=SH3_MIN_SAMPLE):
                f"[----]  {n} response(s) with tool calls, need {min_sample}")
    rate = win["SH-3_batching_rate"]
    return (f"  SH-3 batching     {100*rate:>9.1f}%   "
-            f"[{'ok  ' if rate >= 0.20 else 'SOFT'}]  floor 20.0%")
+            f"[diag]  no floor — retired as a gate, ADR-0008 D1")


 def shape_budget(slug):
--- a/tools/dep-weight.py
+++ b/tools/dep-weight.py
@ -28,15 +28,30 @@ import sys
 from repo import cargo_bin, enter_root

 PACKAGE = "games-ground"
+# ADR-0008 D2. `--edges normal` includes proc-macro crates, which run in
+# the compiler and never reach a shipped binary — 89,048 lines, 36.2% of
+# what this tool used to call "what a game ships", `syn` alone 66,916. The
+# shipped-runtime configuration now excludes them.
+#
+# AM-4b is deliberately NOT corrected here: its proc-macro share has not
+# been measured, and correcting a second instrument on the strength of the
+# first one's ratio is the error this change exists to fix.
+PROC_MACRO_EXCLUDED = ["--edges", "normal,no-proc-macro"]
 CONFIGS = {
-    "shipped-runtime": ["--no-default-features"],
+    "shipped-runtime": ["--no-default-features"] + PROC_MACRO_EXCLUDED,
    "dev-toolchain": [],
 }

 # AM-4a / AM-4b targets from specs/GameKernel.md §4. Breaching one fails
 # the build: a gate that only reports is a suggestion.
+# ADR-0008 D3: the target moves down with the instrument. Leaving it at
+# 250,000 against a corrected 157,202 would hand this project 89,048 lines
+# of headroom it did not earn, in the same change that revealed the error.
+# 161,000 keeps ~2.4% of room where 250,000 kept ~1.5% — the small
+# rounding up is the only thing this decision gives back, because a target
+# with 1.5% of room fails on a dependency's patch release.
 TARGETS = {
-    "shipped-runtime": 250_000,
+    "shipped-runtime": 161_000,
    "dev-toolchain": 350_000,
 }

@ -55,8 +70,8 @@ def crates(extra_args):
        )
        sys.exit(1)
    out = subprocess.run(
-        [cargo, "tree", "-p", PACKAGE, "--edges", "normal", "--prefix", "none"]
-        + extra_args,
+        [cargo, "tree", "-p", PACKAGE, "--prefix", "none"]
+        + (extra_args if "--edges" in extra_args else ["--edges", "normal"] + extra_args),
        capture_output=True,
        text=True,
        check=True,
@ -125,6 +140,23 @@ def self_test():
    check("cargo resolves without caller PATH setup", bool(cargo_bin()),
          cargo_bin() or "NOT FOUND")

+    # ADR-0008 D2. The exclusion must remove exactly the proc-macro crates
+    # and nothing else — a flag that quietly dropped a runtime dependency
+    # would shrink the number in the direction this metric can be gamed.
+    with_pm = crates(["--no-default-features"])
+    without_pm = crates(["--no-default-features"] + PROC_MACRO_EXCLUDED)
+    dropped = set(with_pm) - set(without_pm)
+    check("the proc-macro exclusion drops exactly the expected crates",
+          dropped == {"syn", "quote", "proc-macro2", "unicode-ident", "serde_derive"},
+          f"dropped {sorted(dropped)}")
+    check("the exclusion only ever removes crates, never adds",
+          set(without_pm) <= set(with_pm),
+          f"{len(with_pm)} -> {len(without_pm)}")
+    # And it must actually remove something: an exclusion that excluded
+    # nothing would leave the old figure while claiming the new meaning.
+    check("the exclusion is not a no-op",
+          len(dropped) > 0, f"{len(dropped)} crate(s) dropped")
+
    check("targets defined for every configuration",
          set(TARGETS) == set(CONFIGS) and all(
              isinstance(v, int) and v > 0 for v in TARGETS.values()),
--- a/workplans/CB-WP-0013-instrument-corrections.md
+++ b/workplans/CB-WP-0013-instrument-corrections.md
@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ eighth instance, with the real per-pass figures.

 ```task
 id: CB-WP-0013-T02
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: high
 ```

@ -151,11 +151,43 @@ already forbids exactly that, and CB-WP-0003 T07 exists to prevent it. If
 the floor moves, it moves on an argument about what batching is worth, and
 the argument is written down before the number changes.

+**Done 2026-08-02.** [ADR-0008](../decisions/ADR-0008-instrument-corrections.md)
+D1 — **SH-3 is retired as a gate and kept as a diagnostic.**
+
+Investigating it turned up a third defect, deeper than the two this
+workplan was declared on. Measured by re-deriving batching from the raw
+transcripts, independently of `cb-cost`:
+
+| window | with tools | batched | rate |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|
+| CB-WP-0011 pass | 54 | 0 | **0.0%** |
+| gap → next declaration | 16 | 6 | **37.5%** |
+| CB-WP-0012 pass | 86 | 0 | **0.0%** |
+| gap → next declaration | 10 | 1 | **10.0%** |
+| CB-WP-0013 so far | 10 | 0 | **0.0%** |
+
+**Zero batched turns in 150 in-pass responses; 37.5% in one gap.**
+Batching needs two calls whose inputs are known at once — orientation
+work. Implementation consumes each step's result before the next. And
+SH-3's window is *since the last commit*, which during a pass is always
+implementation. **The metric could not read above ~0% in the window it was
+gated on.**
+
+**And this workplan's own Purpose was wrong.** It stated batching *"has
+got worse"* (7.8–8.6% historical against 1.1–6.3% per-pass). Those come
+from differently-placed windows, not different behaviour. Withdrawn — the
+same class of error, in the pass written to correct it.
+
+The retirement is *not* retargeting to match the measurement: the floor
+was not moved to 6%, the gate was removed on an argument about what the
+quantity is worth, established before the disposition. The number is still
+reported; only the verdict is gone.
+
 ## Task: correct AM-4a to count what ships

 ```task
 id: CB-WP-0013-T03
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: high
 ```

@ -175,6 +207,30 @@ be able to drop crates it should have counted: assert that the proc-macro
 set is exactly the five expected crates and that removing the flag
 restores the old figure.

+**Done 2026-08-02.** ADR-0008 D2/D3.
+
+```
+shipped-runtime   18 crates   157,202 lines   [ok  target 161,000]
+```
+
+**The target moved down with the instrument**, 250,000 → 161,000, so the
+correction hands back essentially nothing: headroom goes from 3,750 to
+3,798. 161,000 keeps ~2.4% of room where 250,000 kept ~1.5%; that small
+rounding up is the only thing given back, because a target with 1.5% of
+room fails on a dependency's patch release.
+
+Three controls, all green: the exclusion drops **exactly** the five
+expected crates, only ever removes and never adds, and is not a no-op.
+
+**The DFD gate then caught the follow-on**, which is what it is for: three
+historical documents carried live `fact:am4a_loc` tags for a number that
+had changed. They are history and were not rewritten — the tags were
+removed and both documents carry a supersession banner instead.
+
+**AM-4b is deliberately not corrected.** Its proc-macro share is
+unmeasured, and correcting a second instrument on the strength of the
+first one's ratio is the error this task exists to fix. Filed as owed.
+
 ## Task: evidence

 ```task