# Chapter 22 Post-Repair Claude Limit Exception

Timestamp: 2026-07-04T19:53:56Z

## Limit Event

After completing and writing `output/critiques/claude/chapter_22.plain_translation_round2.md`, Claude Fable 5 returned a hard seven-day limit event. The failed stream is preserved at:

- `output/critiques/claude/chapter_22.plain_translation_round2.stream.jsonl.failed.1783194788`

The stream reports:

- `rateLimitType`: `seven_day_overage_included`
- `overageStatus`: `rejected`
- `overageDisabledReason`: `org_level_disabled`
- reset timestamp: `1783688400` = 2026-07-10T13:00:00Z / 2026-07-10T06:00:00-0700

This reset is after the launcher deadline (2026-07-07T19:35:43Z), so no further Claude Fable 5 calls are available inside the run window.

## Completed Current-Text Claude Audits After Final Prose Repair

The current Chapter 22 text includes the Characters-Wrong repair and the subsequent four-line dialogue-diagnosis preemptive repair.

Completed against that current text:

- Dialogue Doctor round 5: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_22.dialogue_doctor_round5.md` — `OVERALL: CLEAN`
- Comedy Doctor round 5: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_22.comedy_doctor_round5.md` — `CHAPTER VERDICT: CLEAR`
- Positive Prose round 4: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_22.positive_prose_round4.md` — `INHABITED`
- Plain Translation round 2: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_22.plain_translation_round2.md` — `REGISTER-HOLDS` with zero revision orders. The wrapper returned rc=1 only after the artifact was written, due the hard Fable 5 limit.

## Earlier Claude Audits Now Partly Superseded

- Characters-Wrong round 2 returned `WRONG-ENOUGH` after the main competence repair, before the four-line dialogue-diagnosis preemptive repair. The subsequent current-text Dialogue Doctor, Comedy Doctor, Positive Prose, and Plain Translation audits all explicitly re-checked the four-line repair and confirmed that it preserved the Characters-Wrong fix while removing sentence-talk.
- Narrator-Publicist was clean before the competence repair. A current-text rerun was queued but became impossible after the Fable 5 limit.
- Thought Development was clean before the competence repair. A current-text rerun was queued but became impossible after the Fable 5 limit.

## Local Backstop Judgment

- Characters-Wrong current state: no open order. The exact words changed after round 2, but the changed lines preserve the same misread structure: June accuses Theo of having a plan/stance for either outcome; Theo denies the both-branches version and admits the one-branch version was worse; June lets the mean line sit unretracted. Current-text Dialogue Doctor, Comedy Doctor, Positive Prose, and Plain Translation all independently verify this.
- Narrator-Publicist current state: no local publicist concern. The new narration makes June wrong (`meaner than she had meant it`) and withholds her apology because she is still misreading comfort as management; this preserves critical distance rather than excusing her.
- Thought Development current state: no local pre-solved concern. The misread grows from the opening `somewhere to stand` ambiguity and is paid through Theo's actual completed freight-elevator offer; the new friction is more developed than the prior text.

Disposition: accept the current Chapter 22 text for local final gates, record the unavailable Claude reruns as a model-limit exception, and do not retry Claude before the 2026-07-10 reset.
