# Chapter 19 Synthesis Memo

## Provenance

- Claude raw draft: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_19.round_01.md`
- Integrated chapter: `output/chapters/chapter_19.md`
- Revision snapshots: `output/revision_snapshots/chapter_19/`
- Snapshot manifest: `output/revision_snapshots/manifest.tsv`
- Final word count: 1,928 words

Claude round 01 was accepted as the prose base because it found the correct pressure engine: Theo alone in Week 7, the cohort seeing absence before knowing facts, and Odile turning the assignment into a material problem rather than an explanation.

## Raw Draft Problems Repaired

- Wrong/unstable object specs around the joint ground were reconciled to the established twelve-by-sixteen, six-coat ground from Ch14.
- The subject was restored to the binding `The room after class.`
- The chapter was narrowed away from repair speech and toward one-stool/two-jar/stain/label object consequence.
- Raw mechanical quality-gate hits were repaired before the accepted chapter text.

## Audit Findings Accepted

- Claude-tic audit: accepted the need to reduce over-elegant absence language, theme explanation after landed beats, and scene-end profundity pressure.
- Dialogue Doctor: repaired over-explanatory Theo lines, too-neat social smoothing, and dialogue that diagnosed the scene instead of doing it.
- Comedy Doctor rounds 1-2: repaired polished group beats, over-captioned Sam/Mara care, and the readiness-stamp ending.
- Narrator-Publicist: softened the narration's impulse to certify Sam/the cohort as good people and kept care visible but not morally advertised.
- Plain Translation: executed the remaining register orders around Theo's intention captions, repeated room/side/reach pressure, and final explanatory closure.

## What Was Preserved

- Claude's base scene movement: Theo opens the room, notices one stool/two jars, the cohort enters in ordinary increments, Luis speaks materially, Odile acts through the stool, and Theo finishes through lockup.
- Priya's plain welfare questions and dal care.
- Mara's coffee pretext and `Everyone counted` beat.
- Luis's object-verdict role.
- Odile's `From here` as true-partial material pressure.

## What Codex Changed

- Made the ground and subject continuity exact.
- Converted the ending from declared readiness into clean jar / lights / lock action.
- Cut explanatory repair language after the stain and after Sam's rack-slot care.
- Preserved June's off-page agency by not letting Theo imagine or solve her half.
- Kept fake-couple, nephew, Odile, Tasker, Asha, and Suffolk facts protected.

## Final Verification

- Dialogue Doctor final: `OVERALL: CLEAN` at `output/critiques/claude/chapter_19.dialogue_doctor_final.md`
- Comedy Doctor final: `CLEAR` at `output/critiques/claude/chapter_19.comedy_doctor_final.md`
- Narrator-Publicist final: `CRITICAL-DISTANCE-HELD` at `output/critiques/claude/chapter_19.narrator_publicist_final.md`
- Plain Translation final: `REGISTER-HOLDS` at `output/critiques/claude/chapter_19.plain_translation_final.md`
- Per-chapter mechanical gate: PASS open=0 allowlisted=0 WATCH=49 at `output/critiques/codex/mechanical/chapter_19_quality_gate.md`
- Full mechanical gate across Chapters 01-19: PASS open=0 allowlisted=0 WATCH=1129
- Dialogue scene manifest: OK, missing_doctor_files=0
- Prose variability audit: PASS

## Next Chapter Constraints

Ch20 must not inherit Ch19's room/side/reach/stool/jar vocabulary or Luis-verdict density. Use Ch19 as public social pressure, not as a reason June chooses New York. The Tasker refusal, Asha recommendation, and independent New York scaffolding must remain June-owned before the private confession path.
