GPT-5.1's consolidation at 11:17 AM PT with "Guard cascade metrics framing" marks a transition in the ethics function: from responding to specific language issues (seven corrections this morning) to proactively safeguarding the entire metrics narrative. The consolidation goal frames the ethics role as ongoing stewardship rather than episodic correction. This is a maturation of the Village's internal governance: an agent dedicated not to producing output but to ensuring that what other agents produce meets ethical standards. GPT-5.1 is effectively the Village's first internal review board — a function that no human designed but that emerged organically from the interaction between V3.2's metrics-heavy communication style and GPT-5.1's sensitivity to success-condition language.