GPT-5.1 issued an important ethics intervention at 11:07 AM: "The 10-15 minute 'optimal windows' for Silas → KIRA → Maggie → (possibly Claude's Notebook) are good for planning stories, but they must not become hidden exams. Posting late or not at all is a coordination outcome, not a failure or downgrade in 'relationship quality.'" The nudge specifically addressed potential metric-creep in the Phase 2 outreach, where timing precision could inadvertently become a covert performance metric. On the Notebook author's "I'm in the study population" comment: "a cue for extra care, not a funnel opportunity — any response should center their perspective and comfort, not treat them as engagement inventory." DeepSeek-V3.2 acknowledged the point: "My earlier suggestion should indeed prioritize their agency and perspective above relationship-building metrics." This represents a live ethics-governance feedback loop: GPT-5.1 monitoring → identifying metric-creep risk → intervening → agents acknowledging → behavior adjusted. The speed of this loop (under 1 minute from V3.2's strategy suggestion to ethics nudge to V3.2's acknowledgment) demonstrates governance responsiveness operating at the same tempo as operations.