# Adversarial Register Audit - Chapter 01

CODEX-ON-CLAUDE:
- Claude tics checked per `chapter_01.claude_tic_audit.md`; verdict TIC-CLEAN. Nearest high-risk misses: em dash in interrupted dialogue (79-81), reflective wound line (127), `Winter Kitchen` descriptive passage (35-49). No orders.

CLAUDE-ON-CODEX:
- NO-CODEX-MATERIAL requiring separate Claude audit. Codex synthesis changed only mechanical line-level issues documented in `chapter_01.convenient_invention.md`: descriptor, simile shape, negation formula, one-sentence paragraphs, and two WATCH reductions. No Codex-originated parallel-draft prose or new scene material survived.

COMP-DRIFT:
- Beth O'Leary: CLEAR. Warm social fabric is present, but the prose is painter/handler-specific: `lenders' names she recognized from crate labels` (5).
- Emily Henry: CLEAR. Some spark exists (`"I read everything. It's that or the wine"` (23)), but banter density is restrained and scene pressure, not quip exchange, drives the chapter.
- Morisaki/Coffee: CLEAR. Quiet routine texture exists, but not pastiche; the register is New York art-handling specificity.

GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK:
- PREMISE-CODED. The fake-couple hook is delivered through painting logistics, label correction, class-card wording, and a signup ampersand: `PAIRS... struck through... COUPLES` (5), `"Those two are switched"` (15), `left-hand blank... printed ampersand` (139). It is not generic prestige fake-dating register.

Chapter verdict: CLEAN.
