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Direct evaluation gives $X[1]=X[x]=X[x^2]=0$ and $X[x^3]=-13/16$. Hence the linear functional vanishes on every polynomial of degree at most two and is nonzero on every genuine cubic polynomial.

The Peano kernel theorem with order three gives $X[u]={\int }_{-1}^{1}K(t)u^{\prime \prime \prime }(t)dt$, whereThe first term comes from differentiating $(x-t{)}_{+}^2/2$ at $x=1/4$. On the integration interval this simplifies toIn particular $K\le 0$. Its L1 norm is $-\int K=-X[x^3/6]=13/96$, so the sharp bound isThe printed constant $1/12$ is false for the printed functional. The cubic $u=x^3/6$ has $\Vert u^{\prime \prime \prime }{\Vert }_{\infty }=1$ but $|X[u]|=13/96>1/12$, and it attains the corrected bound. This is an exact Peano kernel norm calculation, not an error from numerical quadrature.