# Adversarial Register Audit: Chapter 02

## CODEX-ON-CLAUDE

Tics checked: em-dash crutch, shimmer, mood verbs, elegant noun phrases, softeners, philosopher intrusion, theme gloss, recursive negation, meta-clauses, over-balanced structures, profundity stamp, lovely/quiet register, physical-reaction default.

Findings from `output/critiques/codex/chapter_02.claude_tic_audit.md` were executed in the integrated chapter:
- tic 4/6 repaired: raw "whole shape of the thing" / "At rest it showed its other face" became line 25 "everything in it and not only the part June had already met" and "That was the useful version."
- tic 11 repaired: raw one-sentence paragraph gravity now passes final gate open=0.
- travel assumption repaired: raw "thirty thousand feet" removed.

Nearest surviving miss: line 163 "All the signature did was agree" is a possible theme gloss, but it is embedded in physical signing/filing and not the chapter-final stamp.

## CLAUDE-ON-CODEX

NO-CODEX-PARALLEL-DRAFT. Codex-originated material exists only as narrow synthesis edits listed in the convenient-invention diff; those edits were audited above against Codex tic risk. No separate Claude codex-tic audit dispatched because no Codex scene/prose passage replaced Claude's base.

## COMP-DRIFT

CLEAR — no comp-author pastiche detected. Nearest miss: line 149 "faithfully and without judgment" has literary neatness, but it is tied to Theo's paperwork cognition and not imitation of a named comp.

## GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK

PREMISE-CODED — examples: line 45 "the sentence as a person instead of as staff," line 75 "Nontransferable. Walk me through it," line 133 "The fruit is free. The cards cost three hundred dollars." The chapter's register is art-class paperwork, logistics-as-care, and dry boundedness rather than generic fake-dating banter.

Chapter verdict: CLEAN.
