@domandigital/craft 0.23.1 → 0.24.0

package/README.md

@@ -121,11 +121,11 @@ no change is needed. Evidence only reported by an audit or a stakeholder cannot
 make a problem observed, and a width nobody looked at stays unknown. See
 [Reviewing a proposed change](./CHARACTER.md#reviewing-a-proposed-change).
 
-A reviewer's own review is kept whole in the same shape, in the repository's
-reviewer corpus (`packages/craft/reviews/`, left out of the npm package), with
-what was done with each note and the principle it teaches. Eunice Ordor's
-review of the DD site is the first. See
-[Eunice's review of the DD site](./CHARACTER.md#eunices-review-of-the-dd-site-2026-10-19).
+A reviewer's own review is kept whole in the same shape, in a private
+reviewer corpus kept outside this repository, with what was done with each
+note and the principle it teaches. A studio reviewer's review of the studio's
+own site is the first. See
+[Review of the studio's own site](./CHARACTER.md#review-of-the-studios-own-site-2026-10-19).
 
 `--snapshot` accepts saved files and preview or production URLs. Drift fails
 with `--strict`; declared estate comparisons stay advisory. Version 1 files
@@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ the one loaded page in place:
 - **On a landscape phone (844 x 390):** header and fixed layers leave at least
   half the height.
 - **Page length (phone screens):** page height at 375 x 667 over 667, to the
-  footer (lazy images loaded). A phone page has a length budget (the Bellerose
-  home page ran 12.7 screens against a target of 6.5). Set one per route or
+  footer (lazy images loaded). A phone page has a length budget (one client home
+  page ran 12.7 screens against a target of 6.5). Set one per route or
   route pattern with `screens`; a route over its budget fails the `screens`
   check, and with no budget the count is only reported. Keys are a route
   (`/`), a pattern (`/areas/[town]`), a prefix (`/services/*`, the route and
@@ -454,4 +454,4 @@ select a better design automatically. Protected staging reviews may reserve
 explicitly marked publication assets while reporting `publicationReady: false`.
 See CHARACTER.md, “Context and learning from a later result”.
 
-Opening photographs are selected as a rendered sequence: compare their quality and crop before filling a slide count or covering every service. See [Select photographs for their position in the sequence](./CHARACTER.md#select-photographs-for-their-position-in-the-sequence) for the Bellerose follow-up and its limits.
+Opening photographs are selected as a rendered sequence: compare their quality and crop before filling a slide count or covering every service. See [Select photographs for their position in the sequence](./CHARACTER.md#select-photographs-for-their-position-in-the-sequence) for the follow-up on one client's opening photographs and its limits.

package/REGISTERS.md

@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ nominalisations, pronoun openers, paired phrases, contractions, person and
 passive voice. Names, figures and specifics are left out, because they say
 what a text is about, not how it is written.
 
-It needs five paragraphs of two to eight sentences each. In
-`calibration/copy-shape/report-registers.md`, single passages from different
+It needs five paragraphs of two to eight sentences each. In the register
+separation report (kept in the private craft corpus), single passages from different
 registers overlap too much to place (26 of 258 pair tests separate), while
 five-paragraph averages separate every register pair (78 of 258). Anything
 shorter gets the brief, not a measurement.
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Generated from `src/register/registers.ts` by
 **Sources:**
 
 - house judgement: No public style authority exists for premium-brand prose. These directives are house judgement, to be revised as the estate grows.
-- [Register separation, 2026-09-29](calibration/copy-shape/report-registers.md): Literary prose (Gutenberg) carries about twice the comma density of the other human registers, the one feature that separated it from all four. Longer, jointed sentences are normal here.
+- Register separation, 2026-09-29 (report in the private craft corpus): Literary prose (Gutenberg) carries about twice the comma density of the other human registers, the one feature that separated it from all four. Longer, jointed sentences are normal here.
 
 **Always:** Every register keeps the COPY.md blocking tier and the proof rule. Draft first, then run `craft copy <file>` on the draft.
 <!-- craft:registers:end -->

package/design-review.schema.json

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     },
     "source": {
       "type": "object",
-      "description": "Where the review came from, when it is a reviewer's own record (a reviewer corpus under reviews/).",
+      "description": "Where the review came from, when it is a reviewer's own record (a reviewer corpus, such as the one kept in the private craft corpus).",
       "required": [
         "tool"
       ],

package/dist/{audit-DESBVHQJ.js → audit-Q73WGKMS.js}

@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ import {
   snapshotPage,
   snapshotUrl,
   snapshotUrls
-} from "./chunk-ZV3FPQPM.js";
+} from "./chunk-OA2MBUJJ.js";
 import "./chunk-JYNXGCYZ.js";
-import "./chunk-GA3AJN67.js";
-import "./chunk-EHMEMSM2.js";
+import "./chunk-2CCL5CO7.js";
+import "./chunk-R4KPE4G5.js";
 import "./chunk-QYBAVU3P.js";
 export {
   PROVENANCE_BUDGET_MS,

package/dist/audit.cjs

@@ -358,6 +358,29 @@ var PARALLEL_PAIR = [
   // a verbless list as a tagline: "Service account, match-day reminders, analytics."
   /^[ \t]*(?:#{1,6}[ \t]+)?[A-Z][\w'’-]*(?:[ \t]+(?!(?:and|or)\b)[\w'’-]+){0,2}(?:,[ \t]+(?!(?:and|or)\b)[\w'’-]+(?:[ \t]+(?!(?:and|or)\b)[\w'’-]+){0,2}){2,3}\.[ \t]*$/m
 ];
+var CLAUSE_START = String.raw`(?<=^[ \t]*(?:[-*][ \t]+|#{1,6}[ \t]+)?|[;:,(—–][ \t]*|[.!?][ \t]+)`;
+var ABSOLUTE_NEGATION = new RegExp(
+  `${CLAUSE_START}(?:never|nothing|nobody|no[ \\t]+one|no)(?:[ \\t]+[\\w'\u2019\xA3$\u20AC-]+){1,6}(?=[ \\t]*(?:[.,;:!?)"\u201D\u2014\u2013]|$))`,
+  "im"
+);
+var FINITE = /^(?:is|are|was|were|am|be|been|being|has|have|had|do|does|did|can|could|will|would|shall|should|may|might|must|need|needs|gets|got|goes|went|comes|came|makes|means|matters|happens|stays|changes|works|takes|says|knows|seems|feels|looks|leaves|left|appears|uses|runs|shows|sends|holds|reads|writes|opens|stores|reaches|applies|isn['’]t|aren['’]t|wasn['’]t)$/i;
+var NO_IDIOM = /^(?:date|longer|later|sooner|matter|more|less|fewer|other|one|doubt|wonder|thanks|problem)$/i;
+var PARTICIPLE = /^[\w-]*(?:ed|en|wn|ld|lt|nt|pt|ne|id)$/i;
+function notAbsoluteFragment(block, match, index) {
+  const [head, ...rest] = match.trim().split(/[ \t]+/);
+  let words = rest;
+  const lead = head.toLowerCase();
+  if (lead === "no" && words[0]?.toLowerCase() === "one") words = words.slice(1);
+  else if (lead === "no" && NO_IDIOM.test(words[0] ?? "")) return true;
+  if (words.some((w) => FINITE.test(w) || /['’](?:s|re|ve|ll|d)$/i.test(w))) return true;
+  if (lead === "never" && !PARTICIPLE.test(words[0] ?? "")) return true;
+  if (lead !== "no" && lead !== "never" && /^(?!else$|less$|across$)[a-z]+s$/i.test(words[0] ?? "")) return true;
+  const sentence = lineAround(block.text, index);
+  const line = sentence.trim().replace(/^[-*]\s+/, "");
+  if (NO_X_NO_Y.test(sentence) || NO_X_BADGE.test(line)) return true;
+  if (NEGATIVE_REASSURANCE.some((p) => wordList([p]).test(match))) return true;
+  return emptyState(block, match, index);
+}
 var alreadyBlocked = (block, match, index) => {
   const before = block.text.slice(0, index);
   const start = Math.max(before.search(/[^.!?\n]*$/), 0);
@@ -484,7 +507,7 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
         f("content/home.md", "Your options, in plain English."),
-        // Eunice Ordor's draft lines, Pastel 986559 #12 and #13 (her diagnosis taken, her wording not).
+        // A reviewer's draft lines, Pastel 986559 #12 and #13 (the diagnosis taken, the wording not).
         f("content/clinics.md", "Tell us what's happening and we'll say plainly what we would take on."),
         f("content/pricing.md", "DD's payment terms, plainly stated."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We explain our findings in plain terms."),
@@ -610,7 +633,7 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
         // From the portal's seeded prospect follow-ups, 2026-10-19.
-        f("emails/followup.md", "Alright Dave, it's Dmitri. No pressure, have a look when you get a min."),
+        f("emails/followup.md", "Alright Dave, it's Sam. No pressure, have a look when you get a min."),
         f("emails/followup.md", "All good if you're not fussed mate, I'll leave it there."),
         f("emails/followup.md", "Carlo, built the shop a proper site."),
         f("content/contact.md", "No worries, we'll get you sorted."),
@@ -623,11 +646,11 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
         f("content/home.md", "Proper planning saves a second visit."),
         f("content/certificates.md", "Download a sorted list of certificates, sorted by date."),
         f("content/directions.md", "At the junction, take the right then left turn."),
-        // Chair and Blade's own approved line, and "mate" as a noun.
+        // A barber client's own approved line, and "mate" as a noun.
         f("content/home.md", "Every cut starts with a proper chat about what you actually want."),
         f("content/home.md", "It feels like getting a cut from a mate who knows what he is doing."),
         f("emails/quote.md", "Have a look at the quote and ring me if Thursday does not work."),
-        f("content/contact.md", "Give us a ring on 01280 700123. We take a look at the fault before quoting."),
+        f("content/contact.md", "Give us a ring on 01632 960123. We take a look at the fault before quoting."),
         f("content/home.md", "Built to last, and made for older houses.")
       ]
     }
@@ -639,14 +662,14 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "copy",
     why: "'What this is and is not', 'we have not yet built', 'our experience so far is one practice', 'what we would and wouldn't take on': a model scopes a business by confessing its limits. It reads as small print, and it turns a buyer away before they make contact.",
-    fix: "Scope by being precise about what is true, and leave the door open: 'Built and run by us for Sensphere, a practice whose clinicians work across several sites.' Keep contractual facts (eligibility, who runs what) and say them as what the buyer gets.",
+    fix: "Scope by being precise about what is true, and leave the door open: 'Built and run by us for a children's therapy practice whose clinicians work across several sites.' Keep contractual facts (eligibility, who runs what) and say them as what the buyer gets.",
     detect: phrases(CONFESSION, quoted),
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
-        // Each one from the DD site, as Eunice Ordor flagged it (Pastel 986559 #8, #12, #13).
+        // Each one from the studio's own site, as a reviewer flagged it (Pastel 986559 #8, #12, #13).
         f("content/clinics.md", "What this is and is not: a practice portal we built and run for one practice."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We have not yet built and run the digital systems of a practice with several clinicians."),
-        f("content/home.md", "Including the client portal we run for Sensphere. Our clinic experience so far is one practice."),
+        f("content/home.md", "Including the client portal we run for a therapy practice. Our clinic experience so far is one practice."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "Tell us what's happening and we'll say what we would and wouldn't take on."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We will say what carries over from this work and what we would need to learn first."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We will tell you where our experience applies directly and where it is close."),
@@ -655,8 +678,8 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
         f("content/mobile.md", "Mobile is our newest line, so we tell you what we have and haven't done.")
       ],
       pass: [
-        f("content/clinics.md", "Built and run by us for Sensphere, a growing practice whose clinicians work remotely."),
-        f("content/home.md", "The client portal we run for Sensphere."),
+        f("content/clinics.md", "Built and run by us for a therapy practice, a growing one whose clinicians work remotely."),
+        f("content/home.md", "The client portal we run for a children's therapy practice."),
         // Contractual facts, said as they are.
         f("content/pricing.md", "Pay monthly is open to UK residents aged 18 and over, subject to status."),
         f("content/pricing.md", "Your monthly payments do not buy the site; the buy-out price does."),
@@ -896,6 +919,46 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
       ]
     }
   },
+  {
+    id: "absolute-negation",
+    name: "Absolute negation fragment",
+    generation: 2,
+    severity: "warn",
+    surface: "copy",
+    why: "'never pre-ticked', 'no servers', 'nothing to buy or run': a verbless fragment that opens on never, nothing, nobody or 'no' + noun. Read aloud it sounds rigid, it promises an absolute the copy rarely means, and it defines the thing by what it is not.",
+    fix: "Say what happens, as a sentence: 'A guardian ticks the consent box in the email.', 'Microsoft runs the servers.' Keep the absolute only where it is literally true and the reader needs it, and give it a subject and a verb.",
+    detect: phrases([ABSOLUTE_NEGATION], quoted, allText, notAbsoluteFragment),
+    fixtures: {
+      flag: [
+        // From a 92EL deck that passed the gate, October 2026.
+        f("content/deck.md", "A guardian consents by email; never pre-ticked."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Pay per user per month; no servers."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Microsoft runs it, so there is less to manage: nothing to buy or run."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Players register on their phone. Nothing on-site to join."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Each player is checked against the list once, no duplicates."),
+        f("app/slide.tsx", `export const note = "Nobody to chase for a form.";`)
+      ],
+      pass: [
+        f("content/report.md", "Players never open the lists."),
+        f("content/report.md", "Nothing is copied by hand."),
+        f("content/report.md", "It is not tested at national scale."),
+        f("content/report.md", "Never share your password with anyone."),
+        f("content/report.md", "No one knows the password but the club secretary."),
+        // A Harvard citation with no date.
+        f("content/report.md", "Children's data needs a lawful basis (ICO, no date)."),
+        f("content/report.md", "- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), no date. Children and the UK GDPR."),
+        // A form answer option.
+        f("content/form.md", "Is the player under 18?\n\n- Yes\n- No"),
+        f("app/form.tsx", `export const options = ["Yes", "No"];`),
+        f("content/form.md", "No, the player is 18 or over."),
+        f("content/home.md", "We no longer post paper forms."),
+        f("content/report.md", "If the check fails, nothing new appears in the list."),
+        // The blocking tells report these.
+        f("content/home.md", "We reply within a day. No obligation, no spam."),
+        f("app/list.tsx", `export const empty = "No results found.";`)
+      ]
+    }
+  },
   {
     id: "where-x-meets-y",
     name: "'Where X meets Y'",
@@ -2541,7 +2604,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     generation: 1,
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "source",
-    why: "When every block fades up on scroll, the motion stops meaning anything and the page feels slow. MMM had 70, DD 40, sen-sphere 27.",
+    why: "When every block fades up on scroll, the motion stops meaning anything and the page feels slow. One salon client's site had 70, the studio's own 40, a therapy practice's 27.",
     fix: `Keep one gated signature moment per page (STANDARD section 7) and let the rest arrive still. The limit here is ${REVEAL_LIMIT} per scan.`,
     detect: revealHits,
     fixtures: {
@@ -2557,7 +2620,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     generation: 1,
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "source",
-    why: "rounded-full on every button, badge and tag is the framework's friendliest default. MMM had 162, DD 125. A shape used everywhere is not a shape language.",
+    why: "rounded-full on every button, badge and tag is the framework's friendliest default. One salon client's site had 162, the studio's own 125. A shape used everywhere is not a shape language.",
     fix: `Choose the shape language on purpose (and record it), then use the pill only where it means something. The limit here is ${PILL_LIMIT} per scan.`,
     detect: pillHits,
     fixtures: {
@@ -2572,7 +2635,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     generation: 1,
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "source",
-    why: "A generator exports the whole shadcn/ui kit whether the site uses it or not. Rise & Bloom ships a full set under its own book, vine and petal assets.",
+    why: "A generator exports the whole shadcn/ui kit whether the site uses it or not. One client's journal site ships a full set under its own book, vine and petal assets.",
     fix: "Delete the primitives nothing imports. Restyle the ones that stay so they belong to this site.",
     detect: shadcnHits,
     fixtures: {
@@ -2630,7 +2693,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
         f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<span className="font-serif italic">reimagined</span>`),
         f3("app/globals.css", `.hero h1 { font-style: italic; }`)
       ],
-      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1 className="font-display text-6xl">Nails in Brackley</h1>
+      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1 className="font-display text-6xl">Nails in Kettering</h1>
 <p><em>Walk-ins</em> welcome.</p>`)]
     }
   },
@@ -2646,11 +2709,11 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
         f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<span className="inline-flex rounded-full border px-3 py-1 text-xs">Now booking</span>
-<h1>Nails in Brackley</h1>`),
+<h1>Nails in Kettering</h1>`),
         f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<span className={cn("rounded-full px-3 text-xs", "bg-rose-500/10")}>New</span>
 <h1>Nails</h1>`)
       ],
-      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1>Nails in Brackley</h1>
+      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1>Nails in Kettering</h1>
 <span className="inline-flex rounded-full border px-3 py-1 text-xs">Tag</span>`)]
     }
   },
@@ -2665,7 +2728,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     detect: heroCtaPairHits,
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
-        // Eunice Ordor's #5 and #36 (Pastel 986559): the DD site's own hero and process close.
+        // A reviewer's #5 and #36 (Pastel 986559): the studio's own hero and process close.
         f3(
           "src/components/Hero.astro",
           `<section class="hero">
@@ -2674,20 +2737,20 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
   <a href="/work" class="btn btn-ghost">See our work</a>
 </section>`
         ),
-        // The null build's hero, verbatim in shape (calibration/null/rmp/pages/05.html).
+        // The null build's hero, verbatim in shape (an electrician brief's null pages, in the private dd-craft-corpus).
         f3(
           "index.html",
           `<nav><a class="btn" href="#contact">Quote</a></nav>
 <section id="hero" class="hero">
-  <h1>Electricians in Uxbridge</h1>
+  <h1>Electricians in Reading</h1>
   <a href="#contact" class="btn btn-primary">Book a Free Quote</a>
-  <a href="tel:+441895555210" class="btn btn-outline">Call 01895 555 210</a>
+  <a href="tel:+441632960210" class="btn btn-outline">Call 01632 960 210</a>
 </section>`
         ),
         f3(
           "app/page.tsx",
           `<section className="relative py-24">
-  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Brackley</h1>
+  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Kettering</h1>
   <div className="flex gap-4">
     <Button asChild><a href="/book">Book now</a></Button>
     <Button variant="outline">View treatments</Button>
@@ -2716,7 +2779,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
 </header>`
         ),
         f3("app/page.tsx", `<section className="py-24">
-  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Brackley</h1>
+  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Kettering</h1>
   <a className="rounded bg-ink px-5 py-3" href="/book">Book now</a>
 </section>
 <section><a className="rounded bg-ink px-5 py-3" href="/prices">Prices</a></section>`)
@@ -3492,13 +3555,15 @@ var HOUSE = {
   "stock-email-line": { tier: "review", label: "stock email line, start with the reason for writing and end with the next step" },
   // New 2026-10-19 (founder): review first, like every new tell, until estate hits are read.
   "matey-register": { tier: "review", label: "matey register, write plain and complete British English" },
-  // New 2026-10-20 (founder, from Eunice Ordor's review): review first, like every new tell.
+  // New 2026-10-20 (founder, from a reviewer's notes): review first, like every new tell.
   "confession-line": { tier: "review", label: "confession line, scope the work by saying precisely what is true" },
   // New 2026-10-23 (a 92EL report passed the gate with three): review, because a
   // genuine disclaimer has the same shape. The gerund pair joined not-just-but.
   // New 2026-10-23 (founder, from 92EL deliverables): review, since a short slide label is often fine.
   "parallel-pair": { tier: "review", label: "verbless parallel pair, write the sentence it stands for" },
   "trailing-contrast": { tier: "review", label: "trailing contrast. Say the positive claim, unless it is a disclaimer the reader needs" },
+  // New 2026-10-26 (founder, from a 92EL deck): review first, like every new tell, until estate hits are read.
+  "absolute-negation": { tier: "review", label: "absolute negation fragment. Say what happens, as a sentence with a subject and a verb" },
   "ai-vocabulary": { tier: "review", label: "AI vocabulary" },
   "stock-phrase": { tier: "review", label: "stock phrase" },
   "hollow-imperative": { tier: "review", label: "hollow imperative" },
@@ -4267,7 +4332,7 @@ var IMAGERY_TELLS = [
 ];
 
 // src/character/check.ts
-var CATALOGUE_VERSION = "2026.10.8";
+var CATALOGUE_VERSION = "2026.10.9";
 var CATALOGUE = [
   ...[...SOURCE_TELLS, ...COPY_TELLS, ...RESEARCH_TELLS, ...DENSITY_TELLS].map((t) => RENDERED_PATHS[t.id] ? { ...t, rendered: RENDERED_PATHS[t.id] } : t),
   ...SPECIFICITY_COPY_TELLS,

package/dist/audit.js

@@ -323,6 +323,29 @@ var PARALLEL_PAIR = [
   // a verbless list as a tagline: "Service account, match-day reminders, analytics."
   /^[ \t]*(?:#{1,6}[ \t]+)?[A-Z][\w'’-]*(?:[ \t]+(?!(?:and|or)\b)[\w'’-]+){0,2}(?:,[ \t]+(?!(?:and|or)\b)[\w'’-]+(?:[ \t]+(?!(?:and|or)\b)[\w'’-]+){0,2}){2,3}\.[ \t]*$/m
 ];
+var CLAUSE_START = String.raw`(?<=^[ \t]*(?:[-*][ \t]+|#{1,6}[ \t]+)?|[;:,(—–][ \t]*|[.!?][ \t]+)`;
+var ABSOLUTE_NEGATION = new RegExp(
+  `${CLAUSE_START}(?:never|nothing|nobody|no[ \\t]+one|no)(?:[ \\t]+[\\w'\u2019\xA3$\u20AC-]+){1,6}(?=[ \\t]*(?:[.,;:!?)"\u201D\u2014\u2013]|$))`,
+  "im"
+);
+var FINITE = /^(?:is|are|was|were|am|be|been|being|has|have|had|do|does|did|can|could|will|would|shall|should|may|might|must|need|needs|gets|got|goes|went|comes|came|makes|means|matters|happens|stays|changes|works|takes|says|knows|seems|feels|looks|leaves|left|appears|uses|runs|shows|sends|holds|reads|writes|opens|stores|reaches|applies|isn['’]t|aren['’]t|wasn['’]t)$/i;
+var NO_IDIOM = /^(?:date|longer|later|sooner|matter|more|less|fewer|other|one|doubt|wonder|thanks|problem)$/i;
+var PARTICIPLE = /^[\w-]*(?:ed|en|wn|ld|lt|nt|pt|ne|id)$/i;
+function notAbsoluteFragment(block, match, index) {
+  const [head, ...rest] = match.trim().split(/[ \t]+/);
+  let words = rest;
+  const lead = head.toLowerCase();
+  if (lead === "no" && words[0]?.toLowerCase() === "one") words = words.slice(1);
+  else if (lead === "no" && NO_IDIOM.test(words[0] ?? "")) return true;
+  if (words.some((w) => FINITE.test(w) || /['’](?:s|re|ve|ll|d)$/i.test(w))) return true;
+  if (lead === "never" && !PARTICIPLE.test(words[0] ?? "")) return true;
+  if (lead !== "no" && lead !== "never" && /^(?!else$|less$|across$)[a-z]+s$/i.test(words[0] ?? "")) return true;
+  const sentence = lineAround(block.text, index);
+  const line = sentence.trim().replace(/^[-*]\s+/, "");
+  if (NO_X_NO_Y.test(sentence) || NO_X_BADGE.test(line)) return true;
+  if (NEGATIVE_REASSURANCE.some((p) => wordList([p]).test(match))) return true;
+  return emptyState(block, match, index);
+}
 var alreadyBlocked = (block, match, index) => {
   const before = block.text.slice(0, index);
   const start = Math.max(before.search(/[^.!?\n]*$/), 0);
@@ -449,7 +472,7 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
         f("content/home.md", "Your options, in plain English."),
-        // Eunice Ordor's draft lines, Pastel 986559 #12 and #13 (her diagnosis taken, her wording not).
+        // A reviewer's draft lines, Pastel 986559 #12 and #13 (the diagnosis taken, the wording not).
         f("content/clinics.md", "Tell us what's happening and we'll say plainly what we would take on."),
         f("content/pricing.md", "DD's payment terms, plainly stated."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We explain our findings in plain terms."),
@@ -575,7 +598,7 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
         // From the portal's seeded prospect follow-ups, 2026-10-19.
-        f("emails/followup.md", "Alright Dave, it's Dmitri. No pressure, have a look when you get a min."),
+        f("emails/followup.md", "Alright Dave, it's Sam. No pressure, have a look when you get a min."),
         f("emails/followup.md", "All good if you're not fussed mate, I'll leave it there."),
         f("emails/followup.md", "Carlo, built the shop a proper site."),
         f("content/contact.md", "No worries, we'll get you sorted."),
@@ -588,11 +611,11 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
         f("content/home.md", "Proper planning saves a second visit."),
         f("content/certificates.md", "Download a sorted list of certificates, sorted by date."),
         f("content/directions.md", "At the junction, take the right then left turn."),
-        // Chair and Blade's own approved line, and "mate" as a noun.
+        // A barber client's own approved line, and "mate" as a noun.
         f("content/home.md", "Every cut starts with a proper chat about what you actually want."),
         f("content/home.md", "It feels like getting a cut from a mate who knows what he is doing."),
         f("emails/quote.md", "Have a look at the quote and ring me if Thursday does not work."),
-        f("content/contact.md", "Give us a ring on 01280 700123. We take a look at the fault before quoting."),
+        f("content/contact.md", "Give us a ring on 01632 960123. We take a look at the fault before quoting."),
         f("content/home.md", "Built to last, and made for older houses.")
       ]
     }
@@ -604,14 +627,14 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "copy",
     why: "'What this is and is not', 'we have not yet built', 'our experience so far is one practice', 'what we would and wouldn't take on': a model scopes a business by confessing its limits. It reads as small print, and it turns a buyer away before they make contact.",
-    fix: "Scope by being precise about what is true, and leave the door open: 'Built and run by us for Sensphere, a practice whose clinicians work across several sites.' Keep contractual facts (eligibility, who runs what) and say them as what the buyer gets.",
+    fix: "Scope by being precise about what is true, and leave the door open: 'Built and run by us for a children's therapy practice whose clinicians work across several sites.' Keep contractual facts (eligibility, who runs what) and say them as what the buyer gets.",
     detect: phrases(CONFESSION, quoted),
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
-        // Each one from the DD site, as Eunice Ordor flagged it (Pastel 986559 #8, #12, #13).
+        // Each one from the studio's own site, as a reviewer flagged it (Pastel 986559 #8, #12, #13).
         f("content/clinics.md", "What this is and is not: a practice portal we built and run for one practice."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We have not yet built and run the digital systems of a practice with several clinicians."),
-        f("content/home.md", "Including the client portal we run for Sensphere. Our clinic experience so far is one practice."),
+        f("content/home.md", "Including the client portal we run for a therapy practice. Our clinic experience so far is one practice."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "Tell us what's happening and we'll say what we would and wouldn't take on."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We will say what carries over from this work and what we would need to learn first."),
         f("content/clinics.md", "We will tell you where our experience applies directly and where it is close."),
@@ -620,8 +643,8 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
         f("content/mobile.md", "Mobile is our newest line, so we tell you what we have and haven't done.")
       ],
       pass: [
-        f("content/clinics.md", "Built and run by us for Sensphere, a growing practice whose clinicians work remotely."),
-        f("content/home.md", "The client portal we run for Sensphere."),
+        f("content/clinics.md", "Built and run by us for a therapy practice, a growing one whose clinicians work remotely."),
+        f("content/home.md", "The client portal we run for a children's therapy practice."),
         // Contractual facts, said as they are.
         f("content/pricing.md", "Pay monthly is open to UK residents aged 18 and over, subject to status."),
         f("content/pricing.md", "Your monthly payments do not buy the site; the buy-out price does."),
@@ -861,6 +884,46 @@ var COPY_TELLS = [
       ]
     }
   },
+  {
+    id: "absolute-negation",
+    name: "Absolute negation fragment",
+    generation: 2,
+    severity: "warn",
+    surface: "copy",
+    why: "'never pre-ticked', 'no servers', 'nothing to buy or run': a verbless fragment that opens on never, nothing, nobody or 'no' + noun. Read aloud it sounds rigid, it promises an absolute the copy rarely means, and it defines the thing by what it is not.",
+    fix: "Say what happens, as a sentence: 'A guardian ticks the consent box in the email.', 'Microsoft runs the servers.' Keep the absolute only where it is literally true and the reader needs it, and give it a subject and a verb.",
+    detect: phrases([ABSOLUTE_NEGATION], quoted, allText, notAbsoluteFragment),
+    fixtures: {
+      flag: [
+        // From a 92EL deck that passed the gate, October 2026.
+        f("content/deck.md", "A guardian consents by email; never pre-ticked."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Pay per user per month; no servers."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Microsoft runs it, so there is less to manage: nothing to buy or run."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Players register on their phone. Nothing on-site to join."),
+        f("content/deck.md", "Each player is checked against the list once, no duplicates."),
+        f("app/slide.tsx", `export const note = "Nobody to chase for a form.";`)
+      ],
+      pass: [
+        f("content/report.md", "Players never open the lists."),
+        f("content/report.md", "Nothing is copied by hand."),
+        f("content/report.md", "It is not tested at national scale."),
+        f("content/report.md", "Never share your password with anyone."),
+        f("content/report.md", "No one knows the password but the club secretary."),
+        // A Harvard citation with no date.
+        f("content/report.md", "Children's data needs a lawful basis (ICO, no date)."),
+        f("content/report.md", "- Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), no date. Children and the UK GDPR."),
+        // A form answer option.
+        f("content/form.md", "Is the player under 18?\n\n- Yes\n- No"),
+        f("app/form.tsx", `export const options = ["Yes", "No"];`),
+        f("content/form.md", "No, the player is 18 or over."),
+        f("content/home.md", "We no longer post paper forms."),
+        f("content/report.md", "If the check fails, nothing new appears in the list."),
+        // The blocking tells report these.
+        f("content/home.md", "We reply within a day. No obligation, no spam."),
+        f("app/list.tsx", `export const empty = "No results found.";`)
+      ]
+    }
+  },
   {
     id: "where-x-meets-y",
     name: "'Where X meets Y'",
@@ -2506,7 +2569,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     generation: 1,
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "source",
-    why: "When every block fades up on scroll, the motion stops meaning anything and the page feels slow. MMM had 70, DD 40, sen-sphere 27.",
+    why: "When every block fades up on scroll, the motion stops meaning anything and the page feels slow. One salon client's site had 70, the studio's own 40, a therapy practice's 27.",
     fix: `Keep one gated signature moment per page (STANDARD section 7) and let the rest arrive still. The limit here is ${REVEAL_LIMIT} per scan.`,
     detect: revealHits,
     fixtures: {
@@ -2522,7 +2585,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     generation: 1,
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "source",
-    why: "rounded-full on every button, badge and tag is the framework's friendliest default. MMM had 162, DD 125. A shape used everywhere is not a shape language.",
+    why: "rounded-full on every button, badge and tag is the framework's friendliest default. One salon client's site had 162, the studio's own 125. A shape used everywhere is not a shape language.",
     fix: `Choose the shape language on purpose (and record it), then use the pill only where it means something. The limit here is ${PILL_LIMIT} per scan.`,
     detect: pillHits,
     fixtures: {
@@ -2537,7 +2600,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     generation: 1,
     severity: "warn",
     surface: "source",
-    why: "A generator exports the whole shadcn/ui kit whether the site uses it or not. Rise & Bloom ships a full set under its own book, vine and petal assets.",
+    why: "A generator exports the whole shadcn/ui kit whether the site uses it or not. One client's journal site ships a full set under its own book, vine and petal assets.",
     fix: "Delete the primitives nothing imports. Restyle the ones that stay so they belong to this site.",
     detect: shadcnHits,
     fixtures: {
@@ -2595,7 +2658,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
         f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<span className="font-serif italic">reimagined</span>`),
         f3("app/globals.css", `.hero h1 { font-style: italic; }`)
       ],
-      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1 className="font-display text-6xl">Nails in Brackley</h1>
+      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1 className="font-display text-6xl">Nails in Kettering</h1>
 <p><em>Walk-ins</em> welcome.</p>`)]
     }
   },
@@ -2611,11 +2674,11 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
         f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<span className="inline-flex rounded-full border px-3 py-1 text-xs">Now booking</span>
-<h1>Nails in Brackley</h1>`),
+<h1>Nails in Kettering</h1>`),
         f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<span className={cn("rounded-full px-3 text-xs", "bg-rose-500/10")}>New</span>
 <h1>Nails</h1>`)
       ],
-      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1>Nails in Brackley</h1>
+      pass: [f3("components/Hero.tsx", `<h1>Nails in Kettering</h1>
 <span className="inline-flex rounded-full border px-3 py-1 text-xs">Tag</span>`)]
     }
   },
@@ -2630,7 +2693,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
     detect: heroCtaPairHits,
     fixtures: {
       flag: [
-        // Eunice Ordor's #5 and #36 (Pastel 986559): the DD site's own hero and process close.
+        // A reviewer's #5 and #36 (Pastel 986559): the studio's own hero and process close.
         f3(
           "src/components/Hero.astro",
           `<section class="hero">
@@ -2639,20 +2702,20 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
   <a href="/work" class="btn btn-ghost">See our work</a>
 </section>`
         ),
-        // The null build's hero, verbatim in shape (calibration/null/rmp/pages/05.html).
+        // The null build's hero, verbatim in shape (an electrician brief's null pages, in the private dd-craft-corpus).
         f3(
           "index.html",
           `<nav><a class="btn" href="#contact">Quote</a></nav>
 <section id="hero" class="hero">
-  <h1>Electricians in Uxbridge</h1>
+  <h1>Electricians in Reading</h1>
   <a href="#contact" class="btn btn-primary">Book a Free Quote</a>
-  <a href="tel:+441895555210" class="btn btn-outline">Call 01895 555 210</a>
+  <a href="tel:+441632960210" class="btn btn-outline">Call 01632 960 210</a>
 </section>`
         ),
         f3(
           "app/page.tsx",
           `<section className="relative py-24">
-  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Brackley</h1>
+  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Kettering</h1>
   <div className="flex gap-4">
     <Button asChild><a href="/book">Book now</a></Button>
     <Button variant="outline">View treatments</Button>
@@ -2681,7 +2744,7 @@ const inter = Inter({ subsets: ["latin"] });`),
 </header>`
         ),
         f3("app/page.tsx", `<section className="py-24">
-  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Brackley</h1>
+  <h1 className="text-5xl">Nails in Kettering</h1>
   <a className="rounded bg-ink px-5 py-3" href="/book">Book now</a>
 </section>
 <section><a className="rounded bg-ink px-5 py-3" href="/prices">Prices</a></section>`)
@@ -3457,13 +3520,15 @@ var HOUSE = {
   "stock-email-line": { tier: "review", label: "stock email line, start with the reason for writing and end with the next step" },
   // New 2026-10-19 (founder): review first, like every new tell, until estate hits are read.
   "matey-register": { tier: "review", label: "matey register, write plain and complete British English" },
-  // New 2026-10-20 (founder, from Eunice Ordor's review): review first, like every new tell.
+  // New 2026-10-20 (founder, from a reviewer's notes): review first, like every new tell.
   "confession-line": { tier: "review", label: "confession line, scope the work by saying precisely what is true" },
   // New 2026-10-23 (a 92EL report passed the gate with three): review, because a
   // genuine disclaimer has the same shape. The gerund pair joined not-just-but.
   // New 2026-10-23 (founder, from 92EL deliverables): review, since a short slide label is often fine.
   "parallel-pair": { tier: "review", label: "verbless parallel pair, write the sentence it stands for" },
   "trailing-contrast": { tier: "review", label: "trailing contrast. Say the positive claim, unless it is a disclaimer the reader needs" },
+  // New 2026-10-26 (founder, from a 92EL deck): review first, like every new tell, until estate hits are read.
+  "absolute-negation": { tier: "review", label: "absolute negation fragment. Say what happens, as a sentence with a subject and a verb" },
   "ai-vocabulary": { tier: "review", label: "AI vocabulary" },
   "stock-phrase": { tier: "review", label: "stock phrase" },
   "hollow-imperative": { tier: "review", label: "hollow imperative" },
@@ -4232,7 +4297,7 @@ var IMAGERY_TELLS = [
 ];
 
 // src/character/check.ts
-var CATALOGUE_VERSION = "2026.10.8";
+var CATALOGUE_VERSION = "2026.10.9";
 var CATALOGUE = [
   ...[...SOURCE_TELLS, ...COPY_TELLS, ...RESEARCH_TELLS, ...DENSITY_TELLS].map((t) => RENDERED_PATHS[t.id] ? { ...t, rendered: RENDERED_PATHS[t.id] } : t),
   ...SPECIFICITY_COPY_TELLS,