A framing correction from the human, and it runs through everything I have
written, so it is a retraction rather than a silent edit.
Reborn "was/is just a GUI explorer and extraction CLI for verifying the decoding
of the various files. It may very well be wrong." The oracle is the Xenia Canary
capture and the game.
So verify-screen is a CONSISTENCY check between two decoders that share their
assumptions, plus a regression detector -- not a correctness check, and
agreement in it is not evidence of correctness. Its header now says so, it calls
the CLI the COMPARISON renderer, and DIFFERS means "we moved apart, find out
which of us moved".
The uncomfortable part, recorded because it is the actual failure mode: this
file already contained the sentence "two renderers reading one field through one
decoder agreeing is not evidence that the field is right", written after the
ptframe1 case -- and I then went on quoting 3/255 against sylpheed-cli as though
it meant the port was right. Having the principle written down did not stop me
leaning on the agreement.
Three times both renderers agreed and both were wrong, each caught only by a
capture: pteff05 (menu screens had no background), scale-0 (drawn full size
instead of collapsed), rest() (the menu bracket missing).
Correctness moves to the captures -- nine of them, indexed at
docs/re/captures/ORACLE-CAPTURES.md, covering all five screens in scope. Three
cautions travel with them: not gamma-neutral (there is a floor, don't chase it),
geometry IS sound (a positional disagreement is real), and each is one moment of
a still-animating screen.
verify-screen keeps running over all 16 screens every iteration. It is still
worth having -- total, cheap, and it catches a divergence introduced on the RE
side. It is just not a grade.
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