# Chapter 03 Synthesis Memo

Chapter: `output/chapters/chapter_03.md`

Drafting lane: `single-seed + opposing critique`

## Source Drafts

- Claude raw draft round 01: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_03.round_01.md`
- Codex parallel draft: none. No Codex-originated scene draft was used.

Claude round 01 is the prose base for the committed chapter.

## Initial Draft Disposition

Accepted as base because it enacted the first-class engine: June arrives with nothing, the cohort is introduced through action, the timed gesture assignment produces public failure, Mara's scarf is planted, and the diner remains a Chapter 04 hook.

## What Was Kept

- The assignment-card epigraph and June's pencil want.
- The studio classroom shape, timed gesture exercise, and "ugly-decent" drawing turn.
- Cohort care moves: Luis sightline, Priya water/food, Ben route logistics, Ruth exact question, Sam room-making, Mara scarf.
- Odile's clipped critique and cleanup pairing.
- Chapter close: June goes first toward the group with the scarf and wrong drawing.

## What Codex Modified

- Removed raw mechanical blockers and code-fence formatting.
- Corrected Sam's they/them presentation.
- Removed an irrelevant simile and repaired the banned `let herself` construction.
- Executed Dialogue Doctor orders: depolished cohort arrival, replaced Mara's zinger, made Theo's exit offer practical.
- Executed Comedy Doctor orders: removed bureaucratic/fiscal narration hardening and portable workshop frames.
- Executed Clarity Pass orders: fixed the studio seating map, named June at the high-load focalizer beat, and removed an unplanted pencil-cup callback.

## Audit Disposition

Core Codex audits are present and passed or have repair memos:

- `claude_tic_audit`, `consequence_test`, `opening_hook`, `ending_quality`, `surprise_audit`, `unresolved_threads`, `continuity_check`, `voice_cover_names`, `editor_scored_check`, `shared_vocab`, `convenient_invention`, `performance_check`.

Triggered risk audits are present:

- Claude: `dialogue_doctor`, `comedy_doctor`, `comedy_doctor_round2`, `clarity_pass`.
- Codex: `reaction_divergence`, `mentor_scene`, `snapshot_conformance`, `npc_goals_03`, `meanwhile_03`.

Final mechanical gate: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=52.

## Final Judgment

Chapter 03 enacts the card: June survives public bad drawing, the cohort adopts June/Theo as a pair, Mara's scarf is planted, and the first Sonia's pressure is armed without spending the diner scene.
