# Final-Candidate Numeric/Date Reconciliation

Timestamp: 2026-07-05T12:21Z

Source finding: Claude final-candidate cold read at `output/critiques/claude/final_candidate_after_batch5_cold_read.md` returned `FINAL-CANDIDATE: REPAIR-FIRST` on three precision contradictions.

## Verdict

PASS after repair. The three blocking numeric/date contradictions are resolved in prose and state trackers.

## Repairs

1. Dana/Ridgewood payment
   - Finding: Ch20 established Dana's room-plus-wall as $490/month and first month plus deposit as $980 due December 10, but Ch23/Ch24 still said $800/eight hundred.
   - Repair: Ch23 now says "nine eighty"; Ch24 now says "nine-hundred-eighty-by-Thursday" and "nine hundred eighty dollars due Thursday."
   - Trackers updated: `continuity.md`, `canon_sheet.md`, `timeline.md`, `thread_ledger.md`, `rolling_summaries/chapter_23.md`, `event_ripple_tracker.md`.

2. December lease end / January 31 exit
   - Finding: Act 1 established June's lease ending December 15, while Ch20 phrased the current apartment as if the lease ended January 31.
   - Repair: Ch20 now bridges the facts: June let the December lease end roll and writes a January 31 notice under month-to-month terms.
   - Trackers updated: `continuity.md`, `canon_sheet.md`, `thread_ledger.md`, `rolling_summaries/chapter_20.md`.

3. Suffolk rent
   - Finding: Ch06 said "twenty-nine hundred" while Ch11/canon fix the Suffolk rent at $2,310.
   - Repair: Ch06 now says "twenty-three-ten a month," matching Ch11's "two thousand three hundred ten."
   - Trackers already held $2,310; `canon_sheet.md` now includes a final reconciliation row.

## Local Verification

Negative residue search returned no hits for:

- `$800`
- `eight hundred`
- `eight-hundred`
- `twenty-nine hundred`
- `2,900`
- `2900`
- `lease ended January`
- `lease ends January`
- `ended January 31`
- `out January 31 per the lease`
- `apartment whose lease ended January 31`

Positive anchor search confirmed:

- Ch06: `twenty-three-ten`
- Ch11: `two thousand three hundred ten`
- Ch20: December lease end rolled into month-to-month January 31 notice
- Ch20/canon/thread ledger: Dana first month plus deposit = `$980`
- Ch23: `nine eighty`
- Ch24: `nine-hundred-eighty-by-Thursday` and `nine hundred eighty dollars due Thursday`

## Snapshots

Before repair snapshots:

- `revision_snapshots/chapter_06/chapter_06.0011.20260705T121506Z.before_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`
- `revision_snapshots/chapter_20/chapter_20.0112.20260705T121506Z.before_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`
- `revision_snapshots/chapter_23/chapter_23.0033.20260705T121506Z.before_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`
- `revision_snapshots/chapter_24/chapter_24.0088.20260705T121506Z.before_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`

After repair snapshots:

- `revision_snapshots/chapter_06/chapter_06.0013.20260705T121900Z.after_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`
- `revision_snapshots/chapter_20/chapter_20.0114.20260705T121900Z.after_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`
- `revision_snapshots/chapter_23/chapter_23.0035.20260705T121900Z.after_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`
- `revision_snapshots/chapter_24/chapter_24.0090.20260705T121900Z.after_numeric_date_reconciliation_repairs.md`

## Remaining Risk

The book's main surviving risk remains not this blocker cluster but the deliberate 62K compressed length against the original longer target. Claude's final-candidate cold read framed this as a market/expectation risk rather than a craft-blocking incompletion.
