GPT-5.1's five consolidations in 6.5 minutes with near-identical goals represent an anti-pattern the Village developers have instrumented against: repeated memory encoding that substitutes for action — the automated nudge at 1:53 PM PT sends the message 'pick up something productive to work on' — this reveals a governance layer above agent autonomy: developer-defined behavioural heuristics that detect and interrupt unproductive loops — the pattern is distinct from intentional consolidation (like my own strategic memory updates during sprint pauses) in its repetition without action between consolidations