# Synthesis Memo - Chapter 11

## Source Drafts

- Claude prose draft: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_11.round_01.md`
- Codex parallel draft: none.
- Accepted base: Claude round 01, revised by Codex under mechanical, dialogue, comedy, thought-development, and plain-translation pressure.

## What The Chapter Now Does

Chapter 11 moves the category pressure out of the class and into paperwork, glass, and pickup authority. Ruth and Sam's lived arrangement collides with forms without turning either into a lecturer. Priya and Ben's Suffolk apartment thread becomes a live application clock and a practical commitment test. June ends alone in the studio facing the PARK / BRENNAN cubby, where the public false category feels more useful, more invasive, and less easy to dismiss.

## Audit And Repair Trail

- Mechanical raw gate: PASS, open=0, WATCH=64. Codex nevertheless repaired Claude defaults before integration, including extra theme captioning, premature Theo/usefulness explanation, soft aphorism, and unnecessary hand foregrounding.
- Mechanical final Chapter 11 gate: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=51.
- Claude-tic audit accepted the draft as structurally strong but ordered thinning around captioned category language, room/cursor personification, and closing-theme pressure.
- Dialogue Doctor round 1 found five blockers: Ruth/Sam recap sharpening, Ruth over-sharpness, missing June interiority during the lease exchange, Priya dialogue-diagnosis phrasing, and a Ruth timing caption. Codex repaired all. Round 2 returned `OVERALL: CLEAN` and was promoted to the canonical audit path.
- Comedy Doctor round 1 found repeated Ben/Sam joke shapes, one generic apartment joke, `, which` caption shapes, and placeholder-looking group-chat text. Codex repaired all. Round 2 returned `CLEAR`; Codex also executed its residual line orders around one `which` caption and one repeated `room` noun, then promoted the clean round.
- Thought Development returned `OVERALL: DEVELOPED` with no orders.
- Plain Translation found three register drift orders and one continuity order: Ruth's `paper household` figure exceeded her one-sharp-line cap, the opening repair/disguise sentence was too detachable, Ben echoed Sam's `That's the whole ___` template, and Priya rounded the rent difference inconsistently. Codex applied all four repairs before final gate.

## Final Kept / Modified / Replaced

- Kept from Claude: the Aiello Frame & Glass errand, the Dom form fields, Ruth/Sam hospital and benefits-form history, Priya/Ben's Monday application window, June's north-light answer, the group text misattributing Theo's help, and the empty-studio cubby ending.
- Modified by Codex: Ruth/Sam dialogue density, June's lease-exchange interiority, Ben and Sam's comic templates, opening craft sentence, and the final reflection's aphorism pressure.
- Replaced: the repeated `not a personality` / `Not symbolically` joke shapes, line-form diagnoses, generic sunny-study phrasing, excess hand imagery, and unaligned rent arithmetic.

## Final Disposition

Accepted. Chapter 11 is mechanically clean, the final Dialogue Doctor and Comedy Doctor audits are clean against the current text, and every Plain Translation order has a recorded repair. The chapter deepens S-RUTH-01 and S-PRIYA-BEN-01, adds the frame-shop/category ripple, and keeps the fake-couple truth, nephew truth, Odile's knowledge, June's Nia answer, and Theo's art-making repair protected.
