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 Withdrawn — the same class of error, in the pass written to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The DFD gate then caught the follow-on it exists for — three historical
documents carrying live fact tags for a number that had changed.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>
Five decisions:
1. cb-render-html emits HTML/SVG/JS; the browser draws it. Rejected on
measured marginal cost: egui+eframe 2,782,849; wgpu+winit 1,741,979;
ratatui 1,067,013; macroquad 480,501; sdl2 191,973; fltk 140,079.
The reason is allocation, not affordability — fltk is only 1.5x the
corrected headroom, but wgpu is 12x fltk, unavoidable, and named by
INTENT for stage 2. Stage 1 should not buy windowing stage 2 discards.
2. No cb-render-api and no cb-render-null. A port designed against one
document-emitting implementation acquires a document's shape and
stage 2 rewrites it. INTENT's second-use rule beats the blueprint's
port pattern on timing. cb-render-html ships against Project.
3. AM-4 counts third-party code the project causes to be ACQUIRED, not
runtimes the user already has. Browsers are not counted; sdl2 and
fltk are counted at MORE than their Rust bindings. The rule costs
more than it saves, which is the only reason to trust it here.
4. AM-4a's proc-macro defect (89,048 lines, 36.2%) is filed separately,
not bundled with the request it unblocks.
5. Six controls bind the implementation, including a mutation-backed
test that a token-less loopback request is refused, a bar on JS
constructing commands, and a coverage gate asserting over the parsed
emitted document rather than the Rust that emits it.
Reserved for the maintainer: AM-4a exceeds INTENT stage 2 by 7x and
cannot survive it; and whether decision 3's rule is the right one.
The hard gate held — no render implementation code before this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CB-EV-0007 found three defects in how gates are designed rather than in
any one gate: the meta budget cannot see the pass it governs, it blocks
its own repair, and nothing retires any gate.
D1 budgets measure their own window. D2 a soft breach is a signal, and
repairing the instrument that reports a breach is always in budget — a
gate must never block its own remedy, which is the trap CB-RES-0005 §4
named for session shape and that got built anyway two tasks later. D3
every gate declares what would retire it and a date to argue it on. D4
loop work cashes out into something runnable in the pass that invents
it, from the measured finding that cost per response tracks distance
from a runnable check. D5 the tier table finally covers changes to the
loop's own operation — CB-RES-0005 §6 said a second instance should
trigger it, and this ADR is the second.
The workplan is meta and above the budget line on recorded maintainer
authorization, which is D2's first use.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Decides the response to CB-RES-0004 and its adversarial review.
Decision 1 — a third coverage metric, M-D1-MUT: one mutation per
acceptance row, and the suite must go red. adapted:mutation-testing, with
the denominator deliberately changed from source lines to acceptance
rows, because the failure mode here is not an untested branch but a
headline number backed by nothing. A row for which no mutation can be
written is recorded unmutatable WITH THE REASON and counts against the
metric — a row nobody can invert asserts nothing.
Decision 2 — reimplement the log framing rather than assimilate it. This
is the deliberate exception to "own the semantics, assimilate the
implementation": that rule exists so we do not reimplement HARD things.
SHA-256 and ChaCha cost 12 crates and are kept. A length prefix is not in
that category. Budget attribution corrected per the review: the durable
log is shipped runtime (AM-4a, 1.5% headroom), the bundle writer is
dev-only behind the scenarios feature (AM-4b, 9.4%). The survey wanted it
both ways without saying so.
Decision 3 — a LogStore port with a real shared conformance suite, and
the same shape retro-fitted to KernelRng. M-D4-SWAP is a bool over "the
same conformance suite" and no suite exists, so AM-11 was never earned.
Decision 4 — correct three committed verdicts in evidence/CB-EV-0001:
AM-7 split (timing met, hash-identical withdrawn), AM-10 withdrawn as
written (no cb-*-api crate; a K6 determinism lint was reported under a D4
leak row), AM-11 downgraded to unmet. AM-1b is added to the scoreboard it
was missing from while the flattering half of the same command's output
was carried.
Decision 5 — widen the name check over every numbered spec and every
crate, reporting outside the exit code until 2026-08-31, with the date in
the tool rather than in prose. Open-ended "gate it later" is how AM-4's
targets went unratified for four workplans.
Decision 6 — replay is proven by re-execution in a fresh process, with
the reviewer's four controls adopted verbatim, including the two I had
not thought of: truncate-by-one-byte and mutated-seed.
Stated worse, not only better: own source grows and AM-4c moves against
us; CI gets slower by one rebuild per acceptance row. Both accepted — the
alternative is a smaller, faster codebase whose acceptance numbers mean
nothing.
CB-WP-0005 executes it in 8 tasks across four phases. The M-D1-MUT
prediction is 9 of 12 and is beatable in both directions: 12 of 12
refutes CB-RES-0004 outright, 3 of 12 means the pass is under-scoped and
must stop and re-plan rather than proceed to Phase C.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Duplicated-fact drift is the fourth error class and the only one with no
executable rule. No positive control catches it (both copies are
internally consistent) and re-derivation does not either (the copy
reproduces whatever it was copied from). It is caught only by reading a
copy against its source, which nothing in the loop required.
facts.toml holds 15 facts and is GENERATED by `make facts-gen` from
cb-cost, dep-weight and rule-coverage. The trap this task named — a
hand-maintained registry that becomes another drifting copy — is closed
by facts-check re-running the instruments and failing when the committed
registry disagrees with them. A stale registry cannot certify stale
artifacts.
An artifact quoting a fact tags it: **$93.15** <!-- fact --> with the key.
17 occurrences across 5 artifacts are now checked.
Falsified before being believed: changing CostAccounting.md line 158 from
$93.15 to $92.87 — the exact historical drift — produced exit 1 naming
the file, the line and the expected value. Tested against the class it
exists to catch, on a real artifact, not only in its self-test.
It then caught a live tag inside its own documentation example in
InnerLoop.md within the hour. Third time a gate has failed on its own
pass's work.
What it does not close is stated rather than implied: 22 untagged literal
copies remain and are reported, not failed. Tagging is opt-in, a number
can legitimately recur, and a gate that fires on coincidence gets routed
around. Naming the uncovered surface beats claiming the class is closed.
InnerLoop single-source-of-fact moves from prose to executable — v1.3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Discharges the open item T07 raised. Values unchanged at 250,000 and
350,000; what was missing was a reviewed decision behind them, since
they had been set by the implementer in the commit that measured them
and that also changed the feature gating being measured.
The ADR supplies the argument T07's test requires -- why the targets
bind on FUTURE work rather than merely passing present work:
AM-4a leaves 3,750 lines of headroom (1.5%), about one small crate,
so any new shipped-runtime dependency breaches it almost immediately.
That is intended: the shipped runtime should be effectively frozen.
AM-4b leaves 32,979 lines (10.4%), deliberately looser -- dev tooling
should absorb one moderate dependency without a spec change, not two.
Both are ceilings on a quantity that only grows by choice. Nothing
drifts across them; only adding a dependency does.
Falsification condition stated: if a later pass raises AM-4a to
accommodate a dependency it wants, that is the failure the ceiling
exists to catch, and the answer is an ADR arguing for the dependency.
First ADR written under the correction/retarget test; sets the shape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Instrument: session transcript JSONL, deduped by requestId, priced per
model and per cache TTL. Hub rejected as a source (no cache fields, ~100%
error on the same work), kept as sink. Status bar and billing API
rejected on availability.
Attribution: (prev_commit, this_commit] ending-at-commit, scoped by
sessionId. Explicit session markers rejected because they depend on an
agent remembering a step — the exact failure this workplan exists to fix.
Hub status transitions rejected as an after-the-fact time index.
Stated honestly: we buy accuracy with specification complexity, and D1
gets worse. That trade is only right because the alternative on offer was
not a simpler correct number but one wrong by two orders of magnitude.
Seven failure modes recorded up front, each becoming a T04 test — most
importantly that dedup fails in the under-reporting direction, so the
invariant is asserted at runtime rather than trusted.
Gate satisfied: T04 may now write collector code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
