Done. The Positive Prose Audit for Chapter 24 is complete and saved to `output/critiques/claude/chapter_24.positive_prose.md`.

**Verdict: `LLM-CLEAN-FOUND`** — 3 revision orders, all in §2 (summarized pressure), concentrated on one real tendency: the back third states the thesis and June's agency instead of trusting the objects/actions that already carry them.

1. **L125** — cut the "machine built to make two strangers actually look at each other" thesis-gloss; the three literal assignment-cards + "And it had worked" carry the reveal.
2. **L173** — cut/compress the "Her own water, her own work, her own cold walk to her own train" anaphora; the shown refusal + "eight hundred dollars due Thursday" prove the earned-stay without the stamp.
3. **L95** — cut "she was done doing things to prove things"; the "composed arc of cups" callback + "She wanted to see it" carry the decision.

Sections 1, 3, and 4 pass, each with its strongest counter-candidate quoted and the book-specific reason it holds (L81 April = concrete date + timing callback; Theo L73 "paragraphs in my pocket" = over-explaining turned on himself, not mastery; snow L157 = physical fact literalized by Theo, mirroring nothing). Snow stays literal; Odile's reveal stays inside her nephew-guardrail; painting vocabulary and object logistics were not penalized.

Two things worth flagging plainly:

- **I superseded a prior audit.** The target path already held a thorough **round-4 pass that returned `INHABITED`**. I did not silently overwrite it: `output/` is git-ignored (no history), but the round-4 content is independently preserved on disk at `chapter_24.positive_prose_round4.md`, and the base file is by convention a copy of the latest round — so the overwrite is non-destructive.
- **The text had regressed since round-4.** Round-4 audited a 4,813-word / watch-97 snapshot; the on-disk chapter is now 4,562 words on the `current_regression` gate (watch ~105). I confirmed I audited the current text, re-checked round-4's holds (all its adjudicated passages are still present verbatim), and departed from it only where the residue it had itself named as "optional thinning" crossed into stated thesis on the regressed text, plus two adjacent lines it hadn't quoted.

I also saved a short project memory recording the harness's audit-file versioning convention, since I had to investigate it to make the overwrite decision safely.
