The audit is complete and written to `output/critiques/claude/chapter_02.thought_development.md`. Verdict: **OVERALL: PRE-SOLVED (1)** — a single criterion-3 finding with one revision order; criteria 1, 2, and 4 pass with evidence shown.

**The one finding (criterion 3, split cumulative movement):** line 7, "She had ruled a line under the whole list. It was the line she drew under invoices she did not intend to discuss." This is structurally identical to the ruleset's own choppy→connected avoid-example ("The term does real work. It names a pattern..."), and the break does nothing the merged sentence doesn't do better. The revision order is a verbatim merge with a colon, with the surrounding paragraph explicitly protected.

**On the two focus areas you named:**

- **The email/withholding reflection (line 25) passes criterion 1, and I show the trace.** The paragraph survives the straight-line test on structure, not vibes: it moves through a literal wrong first draft, a line-at-a-time deletion, a date-grounded rationalization labeled "the useful version," and then the doubling-back ("The less useful version was that he did not want to stand in front of her while her opinion of him reorganized") — a landing that's meaningless without the middle. The vagueness about *what* was withheld looks like a criterion-2 gap but is plot-required: the continuity log keeps the nephew relation hidden from the reader until Ch 17, and the passage honors the voice card's rule of rationalizing without pretending ignorance.
- **The three-week bridge is adjudicated as efficient logistical cognition, not pre-solved thesis prose.** The easels/Gary/proofs stretches are exempt under criterion 4 (chapter card requires the gap to "feel active"; logistics is Theo's mandated register), and where the bridge does reflect, it develops by the rule's preferred move — the wall-text sign drifting from "the public" to "visitors" to "you," and the printer-box delay before he reads the nontransferable line "as a person instead of as staff." His refusal to solve the noun drift is mandated non-resolution (S-RULE-01 protected to Ch 28), which I name explicitly rather than flag.

The passes are not rubber-stamped: each criterion quotes its strongest counter-candidate, including the two thesis-caption risks ("the first true thing he'd given her that came with no cover attached" and "the lie reduced to objects he could file" — the latter also load-bearing for the round-2 dialogue audit's closed finding) and a watch note that the paperwork-irony figure appears three times in this chapter and shouldn't be allowed to harden into a tic.

One out-of-scope observation for whoever runs continuity: Odile says "The linen came Tuesday" on opening night (line 11), but on October 1 "the supplier shipped cotton instead of linen" (line 39). It may be two orders, but it reads as a wrinkle worth a look.
