# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 13

## CODEX-ON-CLAUDE

No unresolved Claude-tic orders. High-risk nearest misses checked:
- Theme gloss: "It meant the kiss was happening in the same world as everything else" survives because it is tied to wet rack/windowpane/roster table logistics.
- Balanced prose: "She could have made the memory dear... She could have made it bleak" survives because the paragraph spends the contrast on concrete panel choices.
- Soft-ending stamp: "phone dark in the bag" survives because it is literal object concealment and next-chapter pressure.

## CLAUDE-ON-CODEX

Claude Codex-tic audit completed at `output/critiques/claude/chapter_13.codex_tic_audit.md`. Findings against the Codex counter-draft: arrangement-coded room/canvas descriptions, cast roll-call taxonomies, de-tricolon need, and thesis closers. Synthesis disposition: Codex draft did not supply the canonical base; only specific pressure/low-gloss repairs survived. Current chapter avoids the cited thesis closers.

## COMP-DRIFT

- CLEAR - romance-prestige default - closest candidate: "The kiss was supposed to be small." It stays physical, awkward, and studio-bound rather than lush.
- CLEAR - cozy-art-school whimsy - closest candidate: Odile's "Empty rooms flatter badly." It is an economical teacher diagnosis and does not become oracle monologue.

## GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK

`PREMISE-CODED` - evidence: the romance turn is routed through panel labels, wet racks, a loaded brush, Mara's borrowed scarf, and a formal job offer. Quotes: "holding burnt umber clear of Mara's scarf"; "PARK / BRENNAN"; "screen down against the roll of drawings... against Theo's card." This is the book's art/logistics/domestic register, not generic midpoint-kiss prestige gloss.

Chapter verdict: `CLEAN`.

