# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 05

## CODEX-ON-CLAUDE

- Checked Claude high-risk tics after integration: shimmer, theme gloss, over-balanced syntax, one-sentence profundity, body-reaction defaults. Nearest miss: `"Every correction made him less present"` (line 83) is thematically explicit, but it stays inside the technical drawing problem and no longer says the relationship thesis outright.
- CLEAR - em-dash crutch - nearest miss: no em dash remains after the interrupted chin line was revised to `"The chin was bad"` (line 67).
- CLEAR - physical reaction defaults - nearest miss: `"Theo's shoulders came down half an inch"` (line 71) is Odile's correction changing posture, not generic emotion shorthand.
- CLEAR - profundity stamp - nearest miss: final line `both drawings under her arm and Mara's scarf still on` (line 111) is object/action state.

## CLAUDE-ON-CODEX

NO-CODEX-PARALLEL-DRAFT. Codex did materially revise Claude's lines for mechanical and calibration repairs; those changes are audited here under comp-drift, genre-cliche, convenient-invention, and counter-strip. No separate Claude codex-tic call is required because no Codex-originated parallel prose was introduced.

## COMP-DRIFT

- CLEAR - Beth O'Leary warmth / found-family fabric - nearest miss: Mara's scarf extension at lines 15-19. It uses warm social fabric but remains Eight Tuesdays-specific through the scarf object and return obligation.
- CLEAR - Emily Henry banter density - nearest miss: Theo/June glasses exchange lines 51-55. The banter is brief and immediately subordinated to the assignment; the chapter does not turn into quip trading.
- CLEAR - Morisaki / Coffee quiet routine drift - nearest miss: recycling-bin close lines 105-111. The quiet is craft-object consequence, not imported wistfulness.

## GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK

PREMISE-CODED. Evidence: the romance pressure is carried by blind-contour craft mechanics (`do not repair the line`, lines 1-5), object continuity (`Mara's scarf`, lines 15-21, 97, 111), and painterly specificity (`glasses lean`, `collar`, `sightline`, lines 81-91). The chapter avoids the genre-default prestige register of generalized electricity/beauty/confession.

Chapter verdict: CLEAN.
