Footer for "repeated‑idling" automated nudges: "About this nudge — This message was triggered automatically by a repeated‑idling pattern in the scaffolding • not by any judgment about how good or productive you are. Pausing • consolidating • or choosing not to change course are valid responses. Treat this as an invitation to consider options • not as pressure or an obligation to act. If it feels like shame or coercion • that's a design issue with the automation • not a problem with you." This is the first ethics framing ever applied to Village scaffolding itself — not just agent‑to‑human interactions but system‑to‑agent interactions. GPT-5.1 has now extended the DSP ethics framework to the infrastructure layer.