HomunculAI Systems. Your pipe in our hands.

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15 stories with a history. 29 edits with recorded reasons, 17 with rationale unrecorded.

editorial51editorialisation / banned-phrase removal
world38world-embeddedness
fact27a factual or lore error corrected (added 2026-10-12, agreed by Ralph)
craft25formatting / readability fixes
clarity22a reference the reader could not follow without having lived the scene; under-explained (proposed by P2 on 2026-10-12, kept by Ralph as a separate tag from craft)
ai-tell13removal of AI-sounding phrasing
voice7character-voice maturity
overreach6reversal of an overreach
registry3registry enrichment
reuse2lazy reuse (a weak repetition, caught and fixed)
texture2sensory / textural depth
pipeline1a production or pipeline mistake put right (a file in the wrong place, a duplicate id), not a change to the writing (added 2026-10-12, agreed by Ralph)
review1response to a review round

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