CB-WP-0028 T03/T08: one overhead table, and what the nine observations

turned out to be

T03. One table_svg: seats around an elliptical table starting at the
BOTTOM -- the viewer sits nearest the reader, as at a real table --
Problems and both stacks in the middle, each seat's played card between it
and the centre, relations drawn between seats.

Two renderers were DELETED: relations_svg and piles_svg. The task said one
table not two diagrams, and leaving the old ones would have meant drawing
the same thing twice and letting them drift.

No coverage probe cost, through a restructure that merged three diagrams
and removed two functions. Second confirmation of CB-WP-0027's finding: a
probe naming a FACT survives a reflow, one naming a PRESENTATION does not.
CB-WP-0024's "17 remaining" broke on a rendering change; this far larger
reflow broke nothing.

The new control is per seat count -- no two seat circles closer than 70px
at 2 through 6 -- asserted rather than eyeballed at three, which is the
only count anyone ever looks at.

T08 (CB-EV-0026). Seven of nine observations were engine defects, one was
a design finding, one was already true and nobody could tell.

Observations 4 and 5 both dissolved and had ONE cause: nothing on the page
said how drawing works, so a player built a mental model to fill the gap
and reported the gap as two feature requests.

The import gap was worse than "one of nineteen" -- 5 of 13 columns read
from the file we DID vendor, discarded at parse time for eight days. Rule
coverage was 59/59 throughout. The gate measures whether rules are
EXERCISED; nothing measures whether a player can READ the game, and
nothing cheaply could, which is why the person playing it is the
instrument.

TWO GATES WERE WRITTEN FOR A SMALLER WORLD, and neither was wrong when
written. edition-check compared one recorded digest against Problems.csv
regardless of which file it described -- correct with one vendored file,
comparing across files with four. And a cb-play test asserted the literal
"game over" and went red when a won game said "solved", which was T06
working; it now asserts the heading against the OUTCOME and covers the
no-outcome case the original never touched.

Chaos window 2 closes with zero overrides in eleven declarations at d8.
Third and final statement of it: d8 bought rarity by spending evidence,
and a mechanism producing no data across a full window cannot be evaluated
by that window.

make all: exit 0. 57 render tests, 26 cb-play, loop-lint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

workplans/CB-WP-0028-the-table-you-sit-at.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 id: CB-WP-0028
 kind: product
 title: "The table you sit at: the cards' own words, an overhead view, and a game you solve rather than survive"
-status: active
+status: done
 state_hub_workstream_id: "d37c8671-54e4-447f-af64-56f482483282"
 ---
 
@@ -39,29 +39,16 @@ split matters because they go to different places.
 
 ## Observation 2 is a data-import gap, and it reframes the pass
 
-*"I don't understand the GROUND card or why other cards should be played
-to the table"* reads as a design problem. It is not. **The card explains
-itself in the dataset and we never imported the explanation.**
+*"I don't understand the GROUND card"* reads as a design problem. It is
+not: `Actions.csv` carries that card's tagline (*"Regulate. Restore the
+frame. Decide."*) and its full rules text, and **we vendored one file of
+nineteen**. Everything else the engine knows is a hand-transcription into
+`GroundRules.md`'s 59 rules — enough to *play* the game, and nothing to
+*read*. The page shows `Clarify` where the card says *"Ask What Happened."*
 
-`ground-game/editions/*/Actions.csv`, the GROUND row:
-
-> **tagline:** *"Regulate. Restore the frame. Decide."*
-> **rules_text:** *"After all actions are revealed, choose one mode:
-> GR—Ground & Restate: −2 Stress, ready Freedom… OU—Observe & Uphold…"*
-
-**We vendored one file of nineteen.** `editions/ground-darvo-r0/` holds
-`Problems.csv` and nothing else; `Actions`, `Solutions`, `Modes`,
-`Scenarios`, `Relations`, `DARVO`, `Tokens`, `Glossary` and the rest live
-only in `ground-game`. Everything the engine knows about them is a
-**hand-transcription into `GroundRules.md`'s 59 numbered rules** — which
-is enough to *play* the game and gives a player nothing to *read*.
-
-So the page shows `Clarify` where the card says **"Ask What Happened —
-Invite a concrete account before judging."**
-
-**This is the most valuable thing in the pass**, and it was found by a
-player saying he did not understand something rather than by any gate.
-Rule coverage is 59/59 and has been for weeks.
+**Found by a player saying he did not understand something.** Rule
+coverage is 59/59 and has been for weeks. See F18 and
+[ADR-0015](../decisions/ADR-0015-the-cards-own-words.md).
 
 ## Task: decide what else to import, and what it costs
 
@@ -103,23 +90,17 @@ Decide:
 [ADR-0015](../decisions/ADR-0015-the-cards-own-words.md), six decisions.
 
 **The gap is bigger than "one file of nineteen", and the measurement is
-the decision.** Of the file we *did* vendor, the engine reads **5 of 13
-columns** — `title`, `problem_text`, `front_rules`, `reveal_effect` and
-`unresolved_effect` were discarded at parse time. **The cheapest part of
-this pass costs no new bytes** and was sitting in the repo for eight days.
-And `SCN_01` is hardcoded at `lib.rs:1824`: the edition ships **four**
-scenarios and the engine has never dealt three of them.
+the decision.** Of the file we *did* vendor the engine reads **5 of 13
+columns**; the discarded ones are player-facing text that had been in the
+repo for eight days. And `SCN_01` is hardcoded — the edition ships **four**
+scenarios and the engine has never dealt three.
 
-**ADR-0011's revisit condition is measurably absent**, so the dependency
-argument does not get re-run. Across Actions, Solutions, Modes and
-Scenarios: **zero doubled quotes, zero embedded newlines.** The hand
-reader's only job is comma-in-quoted-field, which it already did.
-
-Vendored `Actions`, `Solutions`, `Modes` — the text a player reads. Not
-the production artifacts. **Not `Extensions.csv`**, because it names
-content the designer placed *outside* the core, and importing it would
-break the as-printed claim — but it is now known to exist, which was the
-real risk.
+**ADR-0011's revisit condition is measurably absent** — zero doubled
+quotes, zero embedded newlines across every candidate file — so the
+dependency argument does not get re-run. Vendored `Actions`, `Solutions`,
+`Modes`. Not the production artifacts, and **not `Extensions.csv`**, which
+names deliberately non-core content; it is now known to exist, which was
+the real risk.
 
 ## Task: the cards say what they do
 
@@ -147,38 +128,26 @@ from the edition — not from a phrase we invented.
 - **the page stays readable.** Five action cards with full rules text is a
   wall; the tagline is the default and the rules text is on demand.
 
-**Done 2026-08-06.** One `Table` reader with four callers (a per-file copy
-is how a parser acquires four subtly different bugs), `CardText` for
-Actions/Solutions/Modes, and `ProblemText` for the columns already
-vendored.
-
-**The GROUND card now explains itself**: *"Regulate. Restore the frame.
-Decide."* as the tagline, its GR/OU/ND text behind a disclosure. Problems
-show their own titles where a priority number used to be.
+**Done 2026-08-06.** One `Table` reader with four callers (a per-file
+copy is how a parser acquires four subtly different bugs), `CardText` for
+Actions/Solutions/Modes, `ProblemText` for the columns already vendored.
+The GROUND card now explains itself; Problems show their own titles.
 
 **The load-bearing test asserts the text is a substring of the vendored
-file**, not equal to a Rust literal — a test comparing against a
-hardcoded expectation would pass for a hand-copied string, which is the
-drift this ends. Plus counts (5 actions, 24 solutions, 3 modes), because a
-reader returning one row would pass a "the text is real" test.
+file**, not equal to a Rust literal — a hardcoded expectation would pass
+for a hand-copied string, which is the drift this ends.
 
-**`edition` came out from behind `#[cfg(feature = "scenarios")]`.** It was
-gated because its only consumer was; but the edition is the game's own
-data and the shipped runtime now reads it. **Test machinery and game
-content are different things and only one of them is optional.**
-
-**`edition-check` was written for a single-file world** and compared the
-first recorded digest against `Problems.csv` regardless of which file it
-described. It now checks every file both ways — a vendored file with no
-digest fails, and a digest naming an absent file fails — and asserts
-ADR-0015 D3's falsifier directly: no doubled quotes, no embedded
-newlines.
+**`edition` came out from behind `#[cfg(feature = "scenarios")]`**: it was
+gated because its only consumer was, but the edition is the game's own
+data and the runtime now reads it. **Test machinery and game content are
+different things and only one is optional.** `edition-check`, written for
+a single-file world, now checks every file both ways.
 
 ## Task: an overhead view of a real table
 
 ```task
 id: CB-WP-0028-T03
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: high
 state_hub_task_id: "2ff677ac-80ff-4618-ad7c-05b62c8f80c8"
 ```
@@ -204,6 +173,25 @@ as a circle and once as a row. **One table, not two diagrams.**
 - 2 through 6 seats all lay out without overlap, asserted per seat count
   rather than eyeballed at 3.
 
+**Done 2026-08-06.** One `table_svg`: seats around an elliptical table
+starting at the **bottom** (the viewer sits nearest the reader, as at a
+real table), Problems and both stacks in the middle, each seat's played
+card between it and the centre, relations drawn between seats.
+
+**Two renderers were deleted** — `relations_svg` and `piles_svg`. The task
+said *one table, not two diagrams*, and leaving the old ones would have
+meant drawing the same thing twice and letting them drift.
+
+**No coverage probe cost**, through a restructure that merged three
+diagrams and removed two functions. **Second confirmation of CB-WP-0027's
+finding**: a probe naming a *fact* survives a reflow; one naming a
+*presentation* does not.
+
+The new control is per seat count: **no two seat circles closer than 70px
+at 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 seats** — asserted rather than eyeballed at three,
+which is the only count anyone ever looks at. Plus: the viewer's seat is
+labelled *and* visually distinct, and a spectator is not given one.
+
 ## Task: take cards from the stack, or let the table do it
 
 ```task
@@ -369,7 +357,7 @@ are shown as ties.
 
 ```task
 id: CB-WP-0028-T08
-status: todo
+status: done
 priority: medium
 state_hub_task_id: "a20a529e-0edf-49cc-9c80-7dba3b76cff5"
 ```
@@ -387,3 +375,25 @@ state_hub_task_id: "a20a529e-0edf-49cc-9c80-7dba3b76cff5"
 - **What the overhead view cost the coverage gate**, against CB-WP-0027's
   finding that a probe naming a fact survives a reflow.
 - **Quote CB-WP-0027's cost by re-running the instrument.**
+
+**Done 2026-08-06.**
+[CB-EV-0026](../evidence/CB-EV-0026-the-table-you-sit-at.md).
+
+- **Seven of nine observations were engine defects**, one was a design
+  finding, and one was already true and nobody could tell.
+- **Observations 4 and 5 both dissolved**, and had one cause: nothing on
+  the page said how drawing works, so a player built a mental model to
+  fill the gap and reported the gap as two feature requests.
+- **The import gap was worse than "one of nineteen"** — 5 of 13 columns
+  read from the file we *did* vendor, discarded at parse time for eight
+  days. Rule coverage was 59/59 throughout: the gate measures whether
+  rules are *exercised*, and **nothing measures whether a player can read
+  the game.**
+- **Two gates were written for a smaller world** — `edition-check`
+  compared one digest across four files, and a `cb-play` test asserted the
+  literal `"game over"` and went red when a won game said *"solved"*.
+  Neither was wrong when written.
+- **Chaos window 2 closes with zero overrides in eleven declarations.**
+  Third and final statement: d8 bought rarity by spending evidence, and a
+  mechanism producing no data across a full window cannot be evaluated by
+  it.