# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 09

## CODEX-ON-CLAUDE

CLEAR. Checked the thirteen Claude defaults after final repairs. Nearest misses:
- shimmer prose: "a warm drift toward parchment" (line 19) survives because it is materially tested by the swatch and walk-through.
- narrator philosopher: "Neither one was nothing" (line 101) survives as one short state-change verdict after concrete Ridgewood/armory/Tasker objects.
- physical reaction: "tightened one hand on the rail" (line 123) is tied to a ladder and withheld work knowledge, not a generic throat/heartbeat beat.

Raw Claude tics were acted on: dash clusters, "wall confessed," "city growing a handle," "job working as designed," and the diagnosis-adjacent Dana line are gone or verified clean by the Claude audits.

## CLAUDE-ON-CODEX

NO-CODEX-MATERIAL requiring separate Claude codex-tic audit. Codex did synthesis/repair but did not insert a parallel-drafted scene; every major Codex-originated repair was pressured by Claude Positive Prose, Characters Wrong, Narrator Publicist, Clarity, Comedy, and Dialogue rounds, all promoted clean.

## COMP-DRIFT

CLEAR - no Sally Rooney conversational sparring drift: the lunch exchange is work-network and invoice/studio specific, not blank affect.
CLEAR - no Emily Henry-ish banter drift: comic lines stay attached to labor ("lie down in the loading dock," line 37; "No fish in the microwave," line 97).
CLEAR - no generic literary lapsed-artist essay drift after Positive Prose repairs; the portable leaving-New-York paragraph was cut.

## GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK

PREMISE-CODED. Evidence of premise register: art-handling procedure under a clock ("Patch, prime, paint. One line on the invoice," line 13), painting reawakening through a literal value run (line 43), and romance pressure held as material life choice rather than jealousy or confession ("typed nothing and backed out," line 135). No genre-cliche order.

Chapter verdict: CLEAN.
