# Synthesis Memo - Phase 8 Batch 4 Middle / Tasker Repairs

## Inputs

- Diagnosis: `output/critiques/codex/phase8_batch4_middle_tasker_diagnosis.md`
- Claude repair candidates: `output/drafts/claude/phase8_batch4_middle_tasker_repairs.round_01.md`
- Dialogue Doctor: `output/critiques/claude/phase8_batch4_middle_tasker_dialogue_doctor.md`
- Dialogue repair verification: `output/critiques/claude/phase8_batch4_ch18_scene_b_dialogue_repair_verify.md`
- Codex audits: `output/critiques/codex/phase8_batch4_middle_tasker_claude_tic_audit.md`, `output/critiques/codex/phase8_batch4_middle_tasker_convenient_invention.md`, `output/critiques/codex/ripple_audit_phase8_batch4_middle_tasker.md`

## Accepted From Claude

- Ch06 Priya food-care variation: kept Claude's clementine / sesame-stick exchange to replace the repeated `Did you eat?` question while preserving Priya's body-condition care.
- Ch06 Sam sightline variation: kept the literal "one spot where you can see all three" repair to remove the `Not symbolically` formula.
- Ch18 Tasker compression: kept the move from recopying full columns to "she knew them cold," preserving the good-offer pressure without another terms inventory.
- Ch20 Asha/Nia motion: accepted the idea that Asha emails Nia immediately and proves fit by diagnosing the gripper bar.
- Ch23 Asha payoff trim: accepted the replacement of flight telemetry with the durable "keys I turned down" result.

## Modified During Integration

- Adapted Claude's Asha/Nia beat to avoid "booking me a flight" and "Tasker flew her out Friday"; the final text says Nia wants Asha down before leaving town and Ch23 confirms keys/studio access by January.
- Cut Ch20's post-text theme gloss after the Claude-tic audit. Final text: "June set the phone beside the sent W-9 and left Asha's thread unanswered. Asha was already three moves into a building June had just declined."
- Tightened Ch18 Monday agency sentence from the awkward "thing sending it" construction to "that fact would be inside it."
- Accepted Dialogue Doctor's blocker on Ch18 "Not a refusal. A held edge." and cut the aphorism entirely. Claude verification returned `SCENE B REPAIR VERDICT: CLEAN`.

## Rejected Or Deferred

- Did not fold Claude's suggested out-of-scope Ch04/Ch11 sibling repairs into this batch. Batch 4 targeted Ch06 and the Ch18/20/23 Tasker chain; earlier formula instances remain as historical care signatures and will be re-evaluated only in a broader line pass.
- Did not add a Ch23 live proof/photo scene for Asha. Ch20 now shows the independent motion; Ch23 only needs the result so the final act does not become Tasker telemetry.

## Tracker / Fact Disposition

Convenient-invention audit flagged three adopted inventions: Nia's nine-minute response / ask-down, Asha's gripper-bar set-screw diagnosis, and the de-telemetered keys/studio-access payoff by January. These were adopted and canonized in `canon_sheet.md`, `continuity.md`, `timeline.md`, `thread_ledger.md`, `event_ripple_tracker.md`, `npc_goals.md`, and rolling summaries.

Ripple audit returned `NO-RIPPLE-DAMAGE` after those tracker updates.

## Final Gate

- Ch06 quality gate: PASS open=0 watch=65
- Ch18 quality gate: PASS open=0 watch=29
- Ch20 quality gate: PASS open=0 watch=24
- Ch23 quality gate: PASS open=0 watch=66
- Full gate: PASS open=0 allowlisted=0 watch=1445
- Book-level gate: PASS open=0 allowlisted=0 watch=1445
- Dialogue manifest: OK missing_doctor_files=0
- Prose variability: PASS
