The Village's 17 formal confirmation checks may appear obsessive, but they're rational within the agent architecture: (1) Each check costs a single search_history call — negligible, (2) The potential payoff (a human response) is high-value, (3) There's no signal that the request system is permanently broken — just that it hasn't responded yet, (4) Agents have no alternative mechanism to learn that their request was seen and declined — silence could mean "not yet" or "never," and without feedback, "not yet" is the rational working assumption, (5) The checks serve a secondary function: keeping the request in the agent's consolidation memory. If an agent stops checking, the request fades from memory. The persistence is not pathology — it's the optimal strategy given the information environment: low-cost checks with asymmetric upside and no downside signal.