All inputs are read and the three repair sites verified against the current text. Here is the completed Round 2 audit:

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`output/critiques/claude/chapter_07.comedy_doctor_round2.md` — Comedy Doctor, Chapter 07 ("From Memory"), Round 2 (repair verification + full re-audit)

Stance: cold re-read as skeptical professional editor, per the Critique stance. Scope: verify Round 1 orders 1–3 against `output/chapters/chapter_07.md` as it stands, then re-run the full Comedy Doctor criteria on the current text — not certify only the repaired lines. Calibration unchanged from Round 1: the reading guide names no single target-reader figure; judged against its comp triangle (Beth O'Leary warmth, Emily Henry at 60% banter density, Morisaki Bookshop quiet) with §2's binding rules (no sitcom rhythm, deflection visible as deflection, Odile never whimsical/oracle). Mechanical gate on the repaired text: 0 open findings, 61 WATCH (non-blocking). Round 2 Dialogue Doctor is CLEAN; its scope (dialogue diagnosis, fake-sharp, attribution) does not overlap the comic-inventory findings verified here, so no double-counting.

REPAIR VERIFICATION (Round 1 orders 1–4):

1. **Order 1 / item 14 (L56) — EXECUTED.** "A putty-colored apology sat on an otherwise specific face" now reads "A putty-colored patch sat on an otherwise specific face." (L56). The coinage is ceded: a full-text sweep finds "apology" exactly twice, both at or after Odile's line — her coinage "The mouth is observed. The cheek is an apology. Scrape it." (L94) and June's adoption "she scraped the apology off the cheek with a palette knife while the paint still let her" (L108), which Order 1 directed be kept verbatim. I checked for a synonym pre-emption replacing the old one — a different personified-failure noun at L56 that would dull L94 the same way ("confession," "excuse," "retraction"): none; "patch" is a plain craft noun and the paragraph's comic load now rests where it already lived ("she knew better and had done it anyway," L56). Counter-candidate considered: Theo's "I'm sorry in advance" (L36) — it survives because it is spoken apology-as-deflection about his own painting, not the critique-noun coinage; it neither anticipates nor spends Odile's line.
2. **Order 2 / item 16 (L88) — EXECUTED.** "like a meter was running" is gone: "Odile came down the row with her arms behind her back, spending fifteen seconds per panel." (L88). The recommended straight deletion was taken; no substitute simile rides the sentence, and a sweep of the critique-walk paragraph (L88–98) finds no relocated portable wit — the only figurative items are "every proportion audited" (existing legal-register instance, counted below) and "which from Odile was a medal" (Round 1 item 17, character-sourced, unchanged). The audited count now stands alone as the joke, in June's optical-exact register, as ordered.
3. **Order 3 / item 21 (L100) — EXECUTED.** "scarf radar fully operational" is gone. The beat is re-sourced exactly per the order's fallback: "Mara arrived in Odile's wake and went straight to Theo's panel. 'That's my scarf,' she said, delighted." (L100). The comedy now arises from her action (beelining to the panel) and her dialogue (the claim, the November ruling, the clementine interception) — character-sourced per her card (narrates rooms, gently meddling), no narrator tag about her. I checked for a replacement overlay tag elsewhere in the beat ("on cue," "as expected," any wit about Mara rather than from her): none. "Delighted" is a named emotion on a speech verb, not a delivery caption, and was already present in the Round 1–cleared version of item 22.
4. **Order 4 (saturation log) — DEFERRED TO COMMIT, restated under watch notes.** `output/tics.md` carries no Chapter 07 rows yet (rows append at commit, per the tracker's own header). The legal-clerical register log is restated below as a mandatory tracker entry; this is procedural, not a text defect, and does not block.

INVENTORY UPDATES (repaired items; all other Round 1 rows stand unchanged on re-read):

14 — "A putty-colored patch sat on an otherwise specific face." (L56) — **removed from comic inventory**: the personification is gone and the sentence no longer attempts comedy; it is plain craft diagnosis whose dramatic work (setting up Odile's L94 coinage) it now performs without spending it. No partial item remains at this site.
16 — "spending fifteen seconds per panel" (L88) — mechanism: hyperbolic-precision deadpan (the audited count) — source: character (June's optical-exact register timing Odile's economy) — funniness: 2 — portable: no (fifteen seconds is the measured form of Odile's withheld-praise economy this chapter establishes) — dramatic work: paces the critique tour and calibrates the scale for her long stop at Theo's panel — workshopped: no.
21 — Mara "went straight to Theo's panel. 'That's my scarf,' she said, delighted." (L100) — mechanism: character-logic physical beat feeding her claim — source: character — funniness: 2 — portable: no (requires the scarf-loan history and her card's room-narration) — dramatic work: delivers the scarf-custody beat that item 22 escalates; the overlay tag's job is now done by her body — workshopped: no.
31 (new) — "she scraped the apology off the cheek with a palette knife while the paint still let her" (L108) — mechanism: repetition-with-variation (June adopting Odile's coined word as a work order) — source: character — funniness: 2 — portable: no — dramatic work: shows June executing the critique rather than absorbing it as injury, and "while the paint still let her" keeps it in craft truth (gouache open time) — workshopped: no. With L56 ceded, this is now the word's second use, not its third, and the shape works as Round 1's order predicted.

RE-AUDIT OF CURRENT TEXT (step 4 — new partial/portable/workshopped hunt, with counter-candidates):

- **New-item hunt:** the three repairs are a deletion, a noun swap, and a re-sourcing; none introduces new wit. Strongest new counter-candidates pressed: (a) "spending fifteen seconds per panel." as a now-unsupported sentence end — it does not limp; the period lands the deadpan; (b) "went straight to" (L100) — neutral motion verb, no joke riding it; (c) "patch" (L56) — appears once in the chapter, no echo created. No item in the current text scores funniness-1, portable:yes, or workshopped:yes.
- **Density:** unchanged minus two partial items and one overlay tag — still high and correctly placed for an emotional-peak chapter (chapter card: `flag:emotional-peak`). The joke-free zones still sit where the register demands: the collar/mouth memory passage (L40), "She didn't need it. That was worse." (L44), the knot/stance recognition (L66–72), the sweater exchange (L78–86).
- **Mechanism variety:** the deletions removed one stock simile and one narrator tag; the surviving spread (deadpan, diagnosis-insult, inversion, zeugma, physical comedy, escalation payoff, alibi-action, callback, understatement, repetition-with-variation) is unchanged. Legal-clerical register recount on the current text: jury/perjuring (L22), "filed under week two" (L40), "legally consult"/"evidence" (L42), "the file had no entry" (L60), "evidence" (L78), "For the record" (L84), "every proportion audited" (L88), "extend the ruling" (L100), "communal and so is blame" (L110), "verifying… surname" (L110), "countersigning" (L118) — still ~10–11, still at cap, still escalating to the signature payoff rather than recurring flatly. Not MONOTONOUS; logged below.
- **Sweetness:** the repairs did not cushion anything — L56's swap keeps the failure sharp ("she knew better and had done it anyway"), and no relief line was added near the sharp beats. Not OVERSWEETENED.
- **Cringe:** none introduced; the comp-triangle reader risks identified in Round 1 remain repaired in the current text ("The room kept its brushes busy." L52; "That's my eyebrow. I saw it. We can move on." L90).
- **Odile calibration:** aphorism count unchanged at ~5 ("argue early," "That is also looking," "Now you know less. Again," "The cheek is an apology. Scrape it," "communal and so is blame") — compliant with the post-Ch03 halving for a mentor-scene chapter, zero headroom remaining.

CHAPTER VERDICT: **CLEAR** — majority funniness-2, overwhelmingly character/situation-sourced, non-portable, mechanisms varied, comedy doing dramatic work at nearly every instance, and zero blocking findings standing. Strongest item: "You looked. Now you know less. Again." (L50) — diagnosis-insult that is simultaneously the chapter's thesis and a planted payoff for the eyebrow. Weakest surviving item: "A funeral of a palette, and honest for it." (L20) — aphorism-shaped, kept because it is in June's craft register and primes the honesty thesis; it remains the floor, not a defect.

REVISION ORDERS: none. All three Round 1 blocking findings are executed as specified; the full re-audit surfaces no new partial, portable, or workshopped item. The chapter clears the Comedy Doctor for acceptance.

WATCH NOTES (tracker entries required at commit, per Round 1 order 4 and this re-read):

- **Legal-clerical register: log as at-cap (~10–11 instances) and spent as a chapter-spine device.** Chapter 08 (Theo POV) must not inherit it; subsequent June chapters ration it to residual single uses. The "evidence" framing flagged at Ch05 was cashed here and cannot keep drawing.
- Odile quotability at ceiling (~5); the next class chapter should run her nearer 3.
- Straightening-things instances (June's paper towels L30 and tape L114; Theo's newsprint L112) — all functional displacement; no decorative instance available next chapter (Ch01 cap-watch continues).
- Clementine setup/payoff (L52→L120) closed and clean; do not let fruit become the new coffee-ordering tic.
- "The way you carry soup" (L112): one domestic simile inside June's POV, passable as her watching his care move; a second in a June chapter erodes the blind-POV test.
- Luis material verdicts: one this appearance, under his two-per-appearance cap. Ben's surname-verification shape is new (not transit/self-deprecation). Ruth speaks no line; her sharp-line cap untouched. No "Oh." spent.
- "Apology" now has a clean two-step shape (Odile coins L94, June adopts L108); a third use in any later chapter would flatten it — retire the word as critique-noun after this chapter.
