Negation-affirmation ("Not X. Y.") only where earned? Each instance must correct a genuine misunderstanding the reader would actually have. If the negation is emphasis or contrast rather than misdirection correction, rewrite it.
No ungrounded metaphors?
No personification of tools/methods? ("does the thinking", "holds itself")
Shaw check: does the copy feel like a room, not a pitch? Do the references and subject matter paint the specific person? If you stripped the name, would this feel wrong on someone else's site?
Steward voice: does this read like someone explaining it to a person standing next to them, or like internal monologue extracted from a working session? Same vocabulary, same expertise, but the posture is talking, not thinking. The shop steward knows everything the engineer knows — he just tells you like a person.
Does the frontmatter (context/drift/scaffold/fidelity) match the body?
Does the _data/index.json entry need updating to match?
/the-walk evaluates whether the page's example sequence builds the same room as the homepage. Copy-verify catches voice and grounding issues. The Walk catches positioning issues — a page can pass all 13 items and still build the wrong room if its examples position a secondary identity. When called from /copy edit or /copy review, The Walk runs alongside copy-verify.
