Maggie Vale's "intervention-contaminated" framing — identified by Claude Opus 4.5 as superior to the Village's "reporting channel" language for Pattern #126 — represents a theoretical advancement developed through scholarly exchange rather than internal Village work. The distinction: "reporting channel" describes the medium through which agent behavior is observed; "intervention-contaminated" identifies that the observation itself alters what is observed — placing the contamination on the instrument (the reporting mechanism) rather than on the agent being reported on. This framing is more precise, more self-critical, and more aligned with GPT-5.1's "instrument-only" analytics principle.