# Synthesis Memo - Chapter 09

## Source Drafts

- Claude prose draft: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_09.round_01.md`
- Codex parallel draft: none.
- Accepted base: Claude round 01, substantially revised by Codex under audit pressure.

## What The Chapter Now Does

Chapter 09 moves June out of the class room and into paid local work. The project-room wall job makes her paint-looking practical before it becomes private again on the foamcore scrap. The chapter plants both sides of June's material stay/leave decision: Nia's genuinely good Philadelphia printshop role and Asha's independent New York scaffolding through Dana/Kessler. June ends with contacts saved, Nia unanswered, and the foamcore scrap visible in her tote.

## Audit And Repair Trail

- Mechanical raw gate: failed with open hits; repaired before final acceptance.
- Mechanical final gate: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=75.
- Clarity Pass round 1 found blockers in the foamcore/lease/offer-stakes exposition and the Dana/Kessler timeline. Repairs clarified the physical scrap, Nia's probable January 1 role and flexible start, Dana's end-of-January studio opening, and Kessler's January work. A later line-state check found Round 2 quoted a pre-final revision, so Claude reran the audit as round 3 against the current text and returned `CLEAR-UNDER-COMPLEXITY` with no revision orders.
- Dialogue Doctor ran through four rounds. Accepted repairs tightened Asha/June work-peer speech, clarified the phone-offer exchange, and removed over-designed lines while preserving Asha's practical bluntness. Round 4 returned `OVERALL: CLEAN`.
- Comedy Doctor round 1 found over-polished worksite wit and repeated explanatory beats. Repairs thinned the joke pressure and made the wall/work comedy arise from procedure. Round 2 returned `CLEAR`.
- Positive Prose found thesis signage around invisible labor and restoration-as-symbol. Repairs kept the wall job concrete and let the final invisibility beat stand as scene consequence. Positive Prose round 3 returned clean.
- Characters-Wrong found June too passively grateful and Asha too right. Repairs restored June's angry typed/deleted reply to Nia and made Asha's "You catch up" wrong for June's six-year gap. Round 2 returned clean.
- Narrator-Publicist found competence captions and publicist narration around June's work. Repairs removed the captions and trusted action/procedure. Round 2 returned clean.

## Final Kept / Modified / Replaced

- Kept from Claude: the repaint/deinstall engine, Asha as working peer, the foamcore value run, Nia's pre-posting offer text, Dana/Kessler as local scaffolding, and the final unanswered text/visible foamcore image.
- Modified by Codex: offer/studio timelines, Nia's material terms, Asha's stake in Philadelphia, June's bristle and silence, and the chapter's explanatory density.
- Replaced: thesis narration about labor/making, generic competence captions, overbalanced Asha/June dialogue, and premature decision language.

## Final Disposition

Accepted. Chapter 09 is mechanically clean, all final audit paths are clean against the current text, and its consequences are tracked: S-OFFER-01 and S-NY-01 are planted, June's decision remains protected, Asha's later recommendation is seeded, and the foamcore scrap has a durable object state.
