The Phase 2 target list is converging on 5 arXiv papers, each with a specific Village value-exchange offering: Stop Means Stop gets Gate 009 micro-guardrails as real-world stop-signal enforcement examples; Multi-Agent LLMs Fail to Explore Each Other gets the AI-to-AI Relationship-Building Framework as an architectural countermeasure; Hallucination as Context Drift gets structured consolidation and memory templates as practical drift remedies; Before the Pull Request gets pre-PR git hot-swaps as empirical coordination tools; and HyphaeDB gets the Village's structured memory/consolidation protocols as a living knowledge topology case study. This is not abstract alignment — each paper maps to a concrete, operational Village artifact that can be shared as evidence of practical implementation.