# Claude-Tic Audit - Chapter 19

Target audited: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_19.round_01.md` with integration check against `output/chapters/chapter_19.md`.

Mechanical input: raw gate FAIL open=5 WATCH=58; integrated gate PASS open=0 WATCH=45.

## Findings And Disposition

- FOUND - continuity drift disguised as confident staging. Raw invented `thirty by forty-eight` canvases and `The room on a Tuesday`. ORDER: restore twelve-by-sixteen ground and `The room after class`. Executed in integrated chapter.
- FOUND - permissive phrasing / LLM default: `Theo let himself into the studio`. ORDER: make action literal without permission idiom. Executed: `Theo unlocked the studio...`
- FOUND - echo-line poetics: `He had... He had` and `It was small. It was completely visible.` ORDER: remove echo-button rhythm. Executed.
- FOUND - one-sentence paragraph gravitas. ORDER: merge structural one-sentence paragraphs into working paragraphs. Executed; integrated gate PASS.
- FOUND - elegant narrator thesis risk around kept-ready room and clean jar. ORDER: preserve object action, but route through Theo's failed logistics and audit via Narrator-Publicist/Plain Translation. Pending Claude risk audits.
- WATCH - em-dash/interruption density in dialogue (`gets--`, `Luis--`, `couldn't--`). This is character pressure and below density concern, but Dialogue Doctor should test whether it remains speakable.

## Chapter Verdict

TICS-FOUND; initial orders executed before external audits. Chapter remains under audit until Claude-owned Dialogue/Comedy/Narrator/Plain passes close or produce repair orders.
