# Chapter 24 Packet Pressure Audit

Target: `output/model_prompts/claude/chapter_draft/chapter_24.md`

Verdict: PACKET-USABLE WITH HARD WATCHES.

## Findings

1. PAYOFF CROWDING WATCH - The packet correctly names the final chapter's overload risk and narrows the public payoff to selective live beats. It must not let Claude inventory every cohort member. Best defense: let `After Class`, blue dish, one Luis/Mara turn, one Ruth/Sam turn, and one Priya/Ben residue beat carry the room, then thin the room.

2. ARTIFACT DISCLOSURE WATCH - The packet now forbids a public confession and routes fake-start processing through `After Class`, label, and partial cohort reaction. Draft blocker: any group circle where June/Theo explain the whole lie or apologize to everyone in a speech.

3. PORTRAIT CONSENT HARD GUARD - The packet correctly preserves the Ch22-Ch23 rule: the Week 3 study stays private and faced in unless June herself turns it. Draft blocker: Theo turning, moving, describing, angling, or displaying the portrait; Odile seeing it; the portrait functioning as public proof.

4. ODILE REVEAL WATCH - The packet asks for the night-one reveal to be private, material, and short. Draft blocker: Odile explaining the entire plot, saying she did it for them, or becoming a cozy oracle. Best path: an object/assignment-card/wording admission plus June's mixed response.

5. FINAL-SNOW WATCH - The packet's snow instructions are calibrated: literal weather after payoffs land. Draft blocker: skyline/weather blessing, city-as-soulmate, or a final thesis sentence.

6. CH23 STATE SYNC - Packet now correctly carries: exact `After Class` label, bare seam, blue dish, Dana/Kessler/Asha follow-through, Priya/Ben April condition, Theo's check-out form/Tuesday-morning boundary, and faced-in portrait. No stale provisional state remains.

## Draft Permission

Proceed to Claude draft with `CLAUDE_MODEL=opus CLAUDE_EFFORT=max`. Ch24 is high-leverage and final; after the Claude draft, Codex should produce a pressure counterdraft or at least a counter-scene plan before synthesis if the ending, Odile reveal, or portrait choice comes in too safe.
