# Chapter 02 Synthesis Memo

Chapter: `output/chapters/chapter_02.md`

Drafting lane: `single-seed + opposing critique`

## Source Drafts

- Claude raw draft round 01: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_02.round_01.md`
- Failed Claude attempt preserved: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_02.round_01.stream.jsonl.failed.1781126512`
- Codex parallel draft: none. No Codex-originated scene draft was used.

Claude round 01 is the prose base for the committed chapter.

## Initial Draft Disposition

The first wrapper attempt failed with `rc=143`; the retry succeeded and produced the accepted raw draft. Codex assessment saved at `output/critiques/codex/chapter_02.initial_draft_assessment.md`.

Claude's draft had the right chapter engine: Theo converting the opening-night lie into paperwork, the three-week material bridge, June's packet audit, Odile's rule edits, and the final filed receipt. It needed targeted repairs around Claude tics, dialogue sharpness, comic glosses, and one continuity wrinkle.

## What Was Kept

- Theo's logistics-first focalization: class list, packets, proofs, suppliers, receipts, binder, diary.
- June's exact risk audit of the nontransferable slot and bounded terms.
- Odile's material authority: cards, labels, clementines, edits, and true-but-oblique lines.
- The chapter close: Theo signs after June leaves, files the gallery copy, records all eight packets collected, and locks the room.

## What Codex Modified

Mechanical and register edits:

- Repaired Claude-tic findings from `output/critiques/codex/chapter_02.claude_tic_audit.md`: removed default-elegant abstractions, one-sentence gravity, and the travel-assumption artifact.
- Repaired Dialogue Doctor findings from `output/critiques/claude/chapter_02.dialogue_doctor.md`; details in `output/critiques/codex/chapter_02.dialogue_repair_memo.md`. Round 2 verified CLEAN at `output/critiques/claude/chapter_02.dialogue_doctor_round2.md`.
- Repaired Comedy Doctor findings from `output/critiques/claude/chapter_02.comedy_doctor.md`; details in `output/critiques/codex/chapter_02.comedy_repair_memo.md`.
- Repaired Thought Development findings from `output/critiques/claude/chapter_02.thought_development.md`; details in `output/critiques/codex/chapter_02.thought_development_repair_memo.md`.

Notable final repairs:

- Added Theo interiority at Odile's card intervention and after the "second paragraph" warning.
- Replaced Theo's fake-sharp noun lines with pressure-limited institutional answers.
- Replaced June's workshopped "partial answer" diagnosis with the plainer "On paper."
- Cut the "no question mark" gloss and "She read the way other people argued."
- Changed early "linen" to "card stock" to avoid contradiction with the later supplier error.

## 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`, `dialogue_doctor_round2`, `comedy_doctor`, `thought_development`.
- Codex: `mentor_scene`, `snapshot_conformance`, `reaction_divergence`, `complicate`, `yes_but_no_and`, `performance_check`.

Final mechanical gate: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=60.

## Final Judgment

Chapter 02 enacts the card: the false couple arrangement becomes a bounded, nontransferable institutional fact. It deepens the fake relationship, Theo's partial disclosure problem, and Odile's hidden rule manipulation without revealing the nephew truth or stating Odile's knowledge.
