# Chapter 19 Comedy Doctor Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_19.comedy_doctor_round1.md`

The first Comedy Doctor pass found five blocking narrator-overlay items. The post-repair full-format rerun at `output/critiques/claude/chapter_19.comedy_doctor_round2.md` cleared those five but found two additional blocking items. Both repair batches have been executed.

## Executed Repairs

1. `Mara entered by inventory: hooks first, faces second`
   - Replaced with literal behavior: Mara checks the hooks before looking at the stations.

2. `Mara narrated her and Luis's underpainting...`
   - Replaced the stock couple dynamic with visible studio work: Mara works the window edge; Luis mixes gray with the knife flat.

3. `went back to his side of Mara`
   - Replaced with plain blocking: Luis goes back to his station.

4. `His shoulder began advising against it`
   - Replaced with unadorned body fact: `By eight his shoulder hurt.`

5. `the correction sat there looking like a correction`
   - Replaced with visible paint consequence: the corrected place dries darker than the rest of the edge.

## Verification

- Snapshot before repairs: `output/revision_snapshots/chapter_19/chapter_19.0008.20260703T200448Z.before_comedy_doctor_round1_repairs.md`
- Snapshot after repairs: `output/revision_snapshots/chapter_19/chapter_19.0010.20260703T200503Z.after_comedy_doctor_round1_repairs.md`
- Post-repair mechanical gate: PASS open=0 allowlisted=0 WATCH=48.

## Round 2 Repairs

1. `started with the easels, because the easels were a job with a correct answer`
   - Replaced with literal setup: two easels had drifted from the wall and Theo put them flush before touching the tables.

2. `Priya and Ben traded the left side on some schedule only Ben could hear`
   - Replaced with the odd-weeks rotation and Ben's folded paper never leaving his pocket.

## Current Verification

- Snapshot before round 2 repairs: `output/revision_snapshots/chapter_19/chapter_19.0011.20260703T201255Z.before_comedy_doctor_round2_repairs.md`
- Snapshot after round 2 repairs: `output/revision_snapshots/chapter_19/chapter_19.0013.20260703T201307Z.after_comedy_doctor_round2_repairs.md`
- Post-round-2 mechanical gate: PASS open=0 allowlisted=0 WATCH=50.
- A final Comedy Doctor verification should run after the remaining register/dialogue audits, because the latest full Comedy Doctor artifact still contains the now-executed round 2 blocking orders.
