# Chapter 01 Synthesis Memo

Chapter: `output/chapters/chapter_01.md`

Drafting lane: `single-seed + opposing critique`

## Source Drafts

- Claude raw draft round 01: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_01.round_01.md`
- Claude repair draft round 02: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_01.round_02.md`
- Codex parallel draft: none. No Codex-originated scene draft was used.

Claude round 02 is the prose base for the committed chapter.

## Initial Draft Disposition

Claude round 01 was rejected as the base because it carried a locked calendar contradiction and undershot the chapter target. Codex assessment saved at `output/critiques/codex/chapter_01.initial_draft_assessment.md`.

Claude round 02 corrected the calendar to October 20-December 8, strengthened the public offer engine, and supplied the accepted chapter's scene sequence: June's private-goodbye plan, Theo's wine/label competence, Odile's public placement, stockroom exit offer, and clipboard close.

## What Was Kept

- June's exact-gallery-worker focalization: programs, labels, crates, the north-wall sightline, and handling math.
- Theo's care-through-logistics introduction: moving wine, reading labels, standing as a decoy, water, stockroom door, boring-conflict exit.
- Odile's hidden-intent reread trail: watching June's circuit, public "mistake," "It was full," and clipped commands.
- The chapter close: June writes her name before the ampersand and hands Theo the pen.

## What Codex Modified

Mechanical and register edits:

- Removed quality-gate blockers from the accepted draft before audit stack.
- Repaired Dialogue Doctor findings from `output/critiques/claude/chapter_01.dialogue_doctor.md`; details in `output/critiques/codex/chapter_01.dialogue_repair_memo.md`.
- Repaired Comedy Doctor findings from `output/critiques/claude/chapter_01.comedy_doctor.md`; details in `output/critiques/codex/chapter_01.comedy_repair_memo.md`.
- Repaired Plain-Translation findings from `output/critiques/claude/chapter_01.plain_translation.md`; details in `output/critiques/codex/chapter_01.plain_translation_repair_memo.md`.

Notable final repairs:

- Replaced Theo's aphoristic stockroom cap with plainer guilt and logistics.
- Added Theo's key-ring stress tell after `"Odile," Theo said.`
- Re-sourced portable wit into June's gallery-worker knowledge.
- Cut the portable painting-size simile and narrator aphorism about performance.
- De-quotablized June's scorch-mark line.
- Varied two non-transformative `six years` echoes.

## Audit Disposition

Core Codex audits are present and passed or have repair memos:

- `claude_tic_audit`, `consequence_test`, `opening_hook`, `ending_quality`, `surprise_audit`, `unresolved_threads`, `continuity_check`, `voice_cover_names`, `editor_scored_check`, `shared_vocab`, `convenient_invention`, `adversarial_register`, `counter_strip`.

Triggered risk audits are present:

- Claude: `dialogue_doctor`, `comedy_doctor`, `plain_translation`.
- Codex: `mentor_scene`, `set_piece`, `snapshot_conformance`, `reaction_divergence`, `tension_naming`, `chat_variety`, `sensory_checklist`.

`wp-aivocab-cluster` is a trivial false positive (`key` in `key ring`), not a non-trivial AI-vocabulary trigger.

Final mechanical gate: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=80.

## Final Judgment

Chapter 01 enacts the card: June's private goodbye becomes a public false-couple commitment. The irreversible change is live on the page; the protected threads remain protected; the chapter ends with transferred action rather than explanation.
