# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 15

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## CODEX-ON-CLAUDE

Checked Claude-originated material against the known Claude tic list plus reading-guide tics.

- Em-dash rhythm crutch — nearest miss: opening sentence has `Not all at once—a single stitch...`; it survives because it carries strap-failure action, not emotional substitution. No chapter-wide em-dash density problem after repairs.
- Shimmer / over-poetic adjective stacks — nearest miss: `"the wall a clean field with the light raking it flat"`; survives because it is a painter/installer sightline and the chapter's single deliberate light image.
- Default-elegant noun phrases — found in raw draft (`"It was developing a presence"`) and repaired to concrete placement: `"It occupied one narrow strip of sill..."`.
- Theme-explanation through narrator gloss — raw draft's `"called the competence a personality"` was cut. Current nearest miss: `"The flaw wasn't in the offer"`; survives pending Plain Translation because the notebook list and Nia's concrete terms carry the logic first.
- Recursive negation / false-profound negation — no BANNED hits after mechanical gate; nearest miss `"Not the wall. The press."` is a plain contrast anchored to the Vandercook and not the banned formula family.
- Closing short-sentence profundity stamp — nearest miss `"Fifteen days."`; survives because it is a literal countdown to the Dec 4 deadline and is followed by object action.

## CLAUDE-ON-CODEX

`NO-CODEX-PARALLEL-DRAFT.` No Codex parallel prose draft exists for Chapter 15. Codex modifications were localized audit-ordered synthesis edits against the Claude base: mechanical gate repairs, Dialogue Doctor round-1 repairs, and line-local register flattening. Those changed regions are separately covered by `chapter_15.convenient_invention.md`, `chapter_15.counter_strip.md`, and Claude Dialogue Doctor round 2 (`OVERALL: CLEAN`). If later Claude audits flag Codex-repair residue, this file must be reopened.

## COMP-DRIFT

- Beth O'Leary warmth/found-family fabric: CLEAR. The closest candidate is the group thread/flyer beat (`"40 copies LIVE..."`), but it is plot machinery for the public cover photo rather than a romcom ensemble set piece.
- Emily Henry banter density: CLEAR. The closest candidate is June/Nia's opening `"I had a thing with panels." / "For two days."`; it survives because the call quickly becomes concrete job terms, not banter escalation.
- `Days at the Morisaki Bookshop` / `Before the Coffee Gets Cold` quiet-routine drift: CLEAR. The call-station and receipt/jar routine carries this book's material decision pressure; it does not become a transplanted quiet-shop atmosphere.

## GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK

`PREMISE-CODED` — examples:
- `"Vandercook—gripper, return stroke. Etching press—bearing? gear?"` makes the offer specific to June's art-handling/printshop competence rather than a generic "great job elsewhere."
- `"The line that interested her was true up the Vandercook. Not the wall. The press."` turns the romantic-stay choice into an art-adjacency trap, the book's earned-stay test.
- `"The coat counts. Coats are people who left their position marked."` keeps romance pressure inside the `After Class` label/chair-count system rather than generic longing.

Chapter verdict: `CLEAN`

REVISION ORDERS: none pending remaining Claude risk audits.
