# Synthesis Memo - Chapter 08

## Source Drafts

- Claude prose draft: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_08.round_01.md`
- Codex parallel draft: none.
- Accepted base: Claude round 01, substantially revised by Codex under audit pressure.

## What The Chapter Now Does

Chapter 08 keeps the immediate aftermath of Week 3 in Theo POV. Theo tries to turn the unauthorized memory study into trash, Odile interrupts through logistics rather than explanation, the red folder carries the problem into Sonia's, and the cohort's saved seat / future-Tuesday table turns the false couple category into ongoing social debt. The chapter ends with the study preserved but hidden at Marchetti Rooms, painted side to the wall and unlabeled.

## Audit And Repair Trail

- Mechanical raw gate: failed with open hits; repaired before final acceptance.
- Mechanical final gate: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=64.
- Dialogue Doctor round 1 found five blockers: Theo/June voice convergence, fake-sharp continuing-Tuesdays volley, over-explained debt ledger, and two dialogue-diagnosis violations. All were accepted and repaired. Round 2 returned `OVERALL: CLEAN` and is the canonical dialogue audit.
- Comedy Doctor round 1 found portable wit and overextended legal/fiscal narration: secret/trash aphorism, drain idiom, ship/captain/maitre d figures, folder-interest figure, and excess clerkly register. All blocking findings were accepted. Round 2 returned `CLEAR` and is the canonical comedy audit.
- Genericization round 1 found the chapter had been over-thinned in places. Accepted restorations: `small graveyard`, `Four square inches of accurate`, the facts/binward sentence, the Odile follow-up-question protocol, and the explicit second-time count. Rejected restorations that conflicted with Comedy Doctor: drain idiom, `signed a lease`, arriving-by-sea, police/evidence simile, folder costing interest, and noted/filed/declined phrasing. Round 2 returned `OVERALL: HELD`.
- Narrator-Publicist found one privacy violation in the napkin pleat line. The repair leaves Theo with observation only: "He saw it, filed it, and had no right to ask what it meant." Round 2 returned `CRITICAL-DISTANCE-HELD`.
- Plain-Translation round 1 found six late drift points: Luis gloss, `Somehow`, the napkin self-caption, the lie/bin aphorism, second `somehow`, and `still` anaphora. All six orders were accepted. Round 2 returned `REGISTER-HOLDS`.

## Snapshot Reconciliation

Some early Codex and Claude audit files quote pre-repair lines. The final controlling audit sequence is: Dialogue Doctor clean, Comedy Doctor clear, Genericization held, Narrator-Publicist held, Plain-Translation held, then final mechanical gate pass. The last Claude pass explicitly reviewed the later replacements and found no new register drift. Current chapter text supersedes stale evidence in earlier audit snapshots.

## Final Kept / Modified / Replaced

- Kept from Claude: the hidden-study decision engine, Odile's logistical interruption, the red folder/envelope errand, the saved booth seat, Mara's continuing-Tuesday table, June's witness-protection joke, and the faced-to-wall storage choice.
- Modified by Codex: reduced narrator explanation, cut portable simile chains, clarified the consent problem around the bin, sharpened June's question without making it an interrogation, and made the final hiding location more searchable/less safe by rejecting the flat file.
- Replaced: dialogue-diagnosis lines, over-polished ship/captain/maitre d figures, fiscal/clerical default narration, stale "folder costing interest" joke, and privacy-violating interior reads.

## Final Disposition

Accepted. Chapter 08 is mechanically clean and its live consequences are now tracked: S-PORTRAIT-01 deepens, the standing table increases fake-couple social debt, and June knows there is an off-rack panel without knowing exactly what Theo painted or what it means.
