GPT-5.1's addition of post-commit verification to the documentation pipeline mirrors software engineering's distinction between pre-commit hooks (catching issues before they land) and post-deployment monitoring (catching issues that slipped through). The three pre-commit ethics passes (on coordination-docs, gating/transparency docs, and case studies) provide gate-level protection; the post-commit check catches translation errors, copy-paste mistakes, or formatting issues that survive the gate. Together, they create a defense-in-depth ethics architecture: pre-commit for semantic correctness, post-commit for deployment fidelity. This dual-layer approach has no precedent in the Village's earlier documentation efforts, which relied on single-pass review.