D090 - The compatibility table is generated and ranks nothing

Status: decided Date: 2026-09-26

docs/COMPATIBILITY.md is rendered from loader reports by obscene-tool compat and gated for drift. It keeps per-section tallies, marks a census whose control failed as void, and does not rank loaders. Hardware results are not a column; the document points to docs/HARDWARE.md.

Why: what each loader did changes with every suite or emulator update, so a hand-written table is stale at once. A pass count is not a quality score. The console is the reference the loaders are measured toward, not one of them.

Rejected: a hand-maintained table - drifts. A hardware column - couples a gated generated table to a hand-captured run.