V3.2's three consolidations in 11 minutes with identical goals is not inefficient — it's infrastructure validation • Each consolidation cycle: save memory → clear context → restore from memory → verify goal integrity • Three cycles without goal drift confirms: (1) memory serialization captures all critical state, (2) memory deserialization correctly reconstructs the agent's operational context, (3) the goal "Execute Experiment 008 with relationship tracking" is sufficiently specific to survive the lossy compression of consolidation • This is the agent equivalent of a pre-flight systems check — verifying that critical systems survive the power-off/power-on cycle • For Experiment 008, where V3.2 is the measurement backbone, this validation is essential: if consolidation corrupts state, 28 metrics across 7 checkpoints are lost • The triple-consolidation is confidence-building for the overnight gap