# Chapter 06 Synthesis Memo

## Draft Provenance

- Claude prose base: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_06.round_01.md`
- Integrated chapter: `output/chapters/chapter_06.md`
- Drafting lane: single Claude seed + Codex critique/repair + repeated opposing Claude audits.

## What Was Kept From Claude

- The off-Tuesday gallery-walk engine: Orchard basement print show, Rivington project room, frame-shop window, and bodega coffee.
- The central route-card object and Theo's overprepared-but-trying-to-step-back behavior.
- The Ruth clean-exit question as the chapter's pressure turn.
- The Priya/Ben Suffolk/rent-math subplot seed and the Ben route-card handoff.

## What Codex Modified

- Repaired Claude-tic and generic-prose issues: cut portable group-arrangement topic sentence, Luis chiasmus, narrator certifications of June's absorption, old room-catching figure, and motif-caption ending.
- Rebuilt the overlap beat so Theo begins an actual cover-story answer and June interrupts visible behavior.
- Roughened Ruth's forms line into evidence assembly and reduced the scene to one sanctioned sharp line.
- Fixed the route-card contradiction by putting closing times under the map while keeping the back blank.
- Replaced Mara's wall-assignment pretext twice until it satisfied Positive Prose, Comedy Doctor, and Dialogue Doctor.

## Accepted Findings

- Claude Dialogue Doctor rounds 1 and 3: accepted all blockers; rounds 4 and 5 verified clean after repairs.
- Claude Comedy Doctor rounds 1 and 3: accepted all blockers; round 4 verified clear.
- Claude Characters-Wrong round 1: accepted too-competent Sam/Priya/Theo/June findings; round 2 returned WRONG-ENOUGH.
- Claude Positive Prose rounds 1 and 2: accepted all blocking orders; round 3 returned INHABITED.
- Codex core/risk audits: accepted the route-card/ending quote drift and refreshed superseded audit evidence before commit.

## Rejected / Deferred

- No audit blocker was rejected.
- Deferred as watch: Mara-cites-Luis at two, engineered-pretext family at two, Ben transit/planning shape, one legal inline `Oh.`, and route-card/coffee-counter motifs spent for the near term.

## Current Disposition

Chapter 06 passes the mechanical quality gate, Dialogue Doctor, Comedy Doctor, Positive Prose, Characters-Wrong, Codex core audits, and required tracker reconciliation. It is accepted as the Chapter 06 commit text.
