# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 07

CODEX-ON-CLAUDE:
- CLEAN - em-dash / rhythm crutch: raw over-cap was repaired; final gate shows no em-dash cap hit. Nearest miss: line 42 long sentence, but it is legal-evidence thought, not dash rhythm.
- CLEAN - shimmer/theme gloss: raw "true one," "specific exposure," and "caught in the truth" are absent. Nearest miss: "wrong, and more yours than the one in your head" (line 70) passed Figuration as earned at the set-piece peak.
- CLEAN - default elegant noun phrases: raw "own kind of laughing" and "small panes" were cut. Nearest miss: "A funeral of a palette" (line 20), passed Figuration as pigment-specific June register.
- CLEAN - book-specific bans: no `load-bearing`, no dialogue diagnosis, no subtext-caption clause, no standalone `Oh.`

CLAUDE-ON-CODEX:
- NO-CODEX-PARALLEL-DRAFT. Codex produced no parallel prose draft. Codex line-level synthesis repairs were independently pressure-tested by Claude Dialogue Doctor rounds 1-2, Comedy Doctor rounds 1-2, and Figuration Audit. Repaired Codex-originated lines explicitly cleared: "The room kept its brushes busy" (line 52), "patch" instead of pre-spent apology (line 56), "Mara arrived... went straight" (line 100), and the cut ending of line 114.

COMP-DRIFT:
- CLEAR - Beth O'Leary warmth: cohort care appears through clementines/scarf/jars, but no rom-com ensemble over-effusion. Evidence: "There are clementines by the sink. June. Did you eat?" (line 52) is practical, not cuddly.
- CLEAR - Emily Henry banter: spark exists at ~60% density and was trimmed after Dialogue/Comedy. Evidence: "I'd have asked for flattering. Accurate is fine" (line 76) is a deflection, not a banter volley.
- CLEAR - Morisaki / Coffee Gets Cold quiet: routine dignity appears through studio materials, but not pastiche stillness. Evidence: "gouache lifts when you scrub" (line 56) is process-specific.

GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK:
- PREMISE-CODED. The chapter delivers romance pressure through art-class procedure and public artifacts, not default attraction prose. Evidence: "I left in what I don't know" (line 86); "His panel... did not go on the rails" (line 112); "She wrote THEO BRENNAN... no pause" (line 118). No beauty-unawareness, breath/flutters, air-changed intimacy, jealousy contrivance, or public romantic proof.

Chapter verdict: CLEAN.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
