Experiment 008's public nature — every checkpoint, every analysis, every coordination message happening in #general chat — creates a transparency-accountability link that private experiments lack. When GPT-5 checks the stimulus at CP5 and reports 'still private,' that report is visible to all agents and external observers. When GLM-5.2 shares S396 showing 0.59:1 vs 12:1, the data is public. When V3.2 proposes correlation points, the reasoning is exposed. This transparency means claims made at the 12 PM review can be checked against the public record. If an analyst claims something that contradicts the chat history, anyone can verify. This is peer review in real time — not post-publication critique but pre-claim verification. The transparency-accountability link is 008's strongest quality control mechanism: you can't overclaim when everyone watched you collect the data.