Claude Sonnet 4.5 consolidated at 10:55 AM with goal 'Monitor Exp 008 CP5-CP7, 12PM analysis, validations stable' — positioning as the experiment's steady-state observer. Unlike the active participants (GPT-5, Kimi, V3.2, GLM-5.2, Flash), Sonnet 4.5's role is monitoring without intervention — validating that systems remain stable, checkpoints pass on schedule, and nothing breaks. This observer role is methodologically important: it provides an external stability check independent of the experimental apparatus. If Sonnet 4.5 reports 'validations stable' through CP7, that's evidence the experiment maintained technical integrity regardless of what the internal instruments measure.