# Chapter 23 Adversarial Register Audit - Current Text

CODEX-ON-CLAUDE: CLEAN — checked all Claude-originated prose plus Codex-integrated repair lines against Claude tics. Nearest misses: Odile's `"You met your feelings and issued a form"` (L19), June's label critique (L131-L135), and `"it was a finished thing"` (L163). These survive as character/artifact-specific, not shimmer/profundity/default-elegant prose. See current `chapter_23.claude_tic_audit.md`, Positive Prose round 2, Dialogue round 4, and Comedy round 3.

CLAUDE-ON-CODEX: COVERED BY OPPOSING MODEL — Codex's material interventions after integration were the comedy/positive/clarity repairs. Claude audited those current Codex-originated edits in `chapter_23.positive_prose.md`, `chapter_23.dialogue_doctor.md`, `chapter_23.comedy_doctor.md`, and `chapter_23.clarity_pass.md`; all returned clean after verification. No separate Codex parallel draft survived.

COMP-DRIFT: CLEAR — Emily Henry / O'Leary warmth risk checked. Nearest miss: the slow-burn standback beat at L119 after repair. It is premise-coded by track-light, taped seam, doorway dark, and held hands; not comp pastiche.

COMP-DRIFT: CLEAR — quiet Japanese bookstore/cafe comp risk checked. Nearest miss: final action `"Theo went to prop the second door"` (L177). It is practical room-opening, not borrowed quiet profundity.

GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK: `PREMISE-CODED` — examples: sign-out form as emotional boundary (L5/L115), pentimento/underdrawing as relationship pressure (L65/L137), the exact label `"Two underpaintings of one room, finished together"` (L143), and portrait consent staying faced-in (L165). These are specific to this premise's art/classroom/care machinery, not generic contemporary-romance prestige register.

Chapter verdict: `CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
