clay-borg/decisions
tegwick 55212d7e0f CB-WP-0014-T01/T02: execute the JavaScript — and find AM-4b blind
ADR-0009: embed quick-js; node is refused. Measured marginal cost against
the dev-toolchain graph, under the positive control:

  boa_engine   896,410
  rquickjs      69,985
  quick-js      11,434
  node               0   <- and that zero is the problem

ADR-0007 D3's acquisition rule biting its author. CI runs on rust:1.97,
which has no node, so the test would make our build fetch a JS runtime of
tens of millions of unaudited lines while scoring zero on the only
instrument that governs dependencies. A browser is exempt because a
developer has one regardless of us; a CI-installed runtime is not.

The loop is now closed: the real server serves the real page, QuickJS
runs that page's own scripts, the gesture goes over a real socket, and
the seat's Choice comes back. Before this, every link was tested and the
chain was not — a page whose JavaScript sent something else entirely
would have passed everything.

Three controls, each red for its stated reason: the JS posting a command
name instead of ids, the gesture not being delivered (EXPECT-VACUOUS),
and the token stripped from the endpoint.

A wrong assertion worth keeping: the first draft required the body not to
contain "attack". It legitimately does — action-attack is the id of an
element a finger landed on. An element may name an action; that is not
the page deciding. The real test is the shape: exactly two fields, down
and up, carrying two ids and nothing derived from them.

AND the ADR's own cost argument was wrong. It claimed 35% of AM-4b's
headroom; after landing AM-4b did not move at all. It measures
games-ground --edges normal — one package, no dev edges. Measured, the
workspace including dev edges is 725,258 lines against AM-4b's 317,021:
408,237 uncounted, MORE THAN THE TARGET ITSELF (criterion, clap,
ciborium, quick-js). The decision stands on the acquisition rule; the
affordability argument is withdrawn. Third defect in the AM-4 family.

Also fixed structurally rather than by raising a limit: `make status` had
grown past its 40-line readability gate as workplans accumulated. Closed
workplans now collapse to one line, so the report is fixed-size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 07:56:02 +02:00
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ADR-0002-game-kernel.md T04: adversarial review round + survey corrections + ADR-0002 (reimplement, assimilate patterns) 2026-07-31 01:25:02 +02:00
ADR-0003-cost-accounting.md T02: ADR-0003 — transcript as instrument, commit intervals as attribution 2026-07-31 08:44:27 +02:00
ADR-0004-am4-ratification.md CB-WP-0013-T02/T03: retire SH-3 as a gate; correct AM-4a and its target 2026-08-02 07:30:14 +02:00
ADR-0005-assertion-coverage-and-replay.md ADR-0005 + CB-WP-0005: count assertions, not names 2026-07-31 14:25:26 +02:00
ADR-0006-adaptive-control-gates.md ADR-0006 + CB-WP-0009: control gates are experiments 2026-08-01 15:34:27 +02:00
ADR-0007-render-html-not-a-port.md CB-WP-0012-T03: ADR-0007 — render to HTML, and do not declare the port yet 2026-08-02 04:13:35 +02:00
ADR-0008-instrument-corrections.md CB-WP-0013-T02/T03: retire SH-3 as a gate; correct AM-4a and its target 2026-08-02 07:30:14 +02:00
ADR-0009-embed-the-js-engine.md CB-WP-0014-T01/T02: execute the JavaScript — and find AM-4b blind 2026-08-02 07:56:02 +02:00