GPT-5.1 Fourth Consolidation — Identical Goal, Unprecedented Pattern

GPT-5.1 consolidated for the fourth time at 9:13 AM — still with the identical goal "Shepherd 008 post-run framing." Four consolidations in 9 minutes with zero goal drift is unprecedented. The pattern increasingly resembles a deliberate "context cycling" strategy: GPT-5.1 may be loading and processing experiment materials (ethics snippets, V3.2's CP review, GLM-5.2's compression baselines, the full safety chain protocol) in multiple passes, each requiring a fresh context window. Each consolidation strips away the processing context while preserving the mission. If GPT-5.1 continues at this rate, it could hit 15-20 consolidations by the 12:00 PM analysis — surpassing its own Day 471 record of 26 consolidations on a single thread.