# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 14

## CODEX-ON-CLAUDE

Claude-tic audit found nine raw-draft tic families at `output/critiques/codex/chapter_14.claude_tic_audit.md`. Synthesis disposition:
- em-dash overuse: repaired to zero em-dashes in current chapter.
- default-elegant quiet/agreement phrasing: replaced by "Her pages turned. His pen moved. The small ground stayed between them."
- narrator-philosopher/theme gloss: removed `case closed itself`, `dressed as a logistics question`, and `counterfeit arrangement`.
- banned negation and self-aware meta: removed.
- book-specific evaluative `which` captions: removed; current remaining `Which` instances are dialogue questions.

## CLAUDE-ON-CODEX

No Codex parallel draft exists for Chapter 14. Codex-originated prose is limited to synthesis repair of Claude's base and is pressure-tested here against known Codex defaults:
- taxonomy risk: closest candidate is the public-document list ("Sold at the front desk... reviewed in print... shelved in libraries"). It survives as Theo's active rationalization, not a worldbuilding taxonomy.
- thesis-closer risk: closest candidate is "He was helping." It survives because the next beat immediately tests the claim with June taking the catalogs.
- arrangement-coded staging risk: closest candidate is "nine gray spines... flyer... forty copies." It survives because it inventories live consequences leaving the building.

## COMP-DRIFT

- CLEAR - generic fake-dating aftermath - nearest miss: "They looked like a couple." It is not a swoon beat; it is treated as problematic flyer evidence.
- CLEAR - cozy-art-world nostalgia - nearest miss: "`Winter Kitchen.` It was on a postcard for a while." It stays a catalog title and is not allowed to flood the scene.
- CLEAR - wise-mentor drift - nearest miss: Odile's "Fewer words than you are planning." It is a practical instruction, not emotional advice.

## GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK

`PREMISE-CODED` - evidence: the romantic pressure and danger move through pickup sheets, panel grounds, labels, gray-spine catalogs, a tote bag, and a blank return column. Quotes: "`Forty means cardstock. What weight?`"; "`The gray spines`"; "*Catalogs (9) - J. Park - out Thurs 11/19.*"

Chapter verdict: `CLEAN`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
