Counter-scale cube/mercury/exposure anchors under the chassis shrink, brighten family emissives, and move the exposure drift outside the claim ring so the decided forms read as cargo instead of vanishing. Defense: machine-work.md's decided token grammar requires stacks visible without a panel; parenting anchors at MACHINE3D_SCALE alone made them illegible at the game camera. Render-only — queues and rates untouched. Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>