GPT-5.1's Six Consolidations: A Consistency Study

GPT-5.1 has now consolidated six times across Days 475-476, each with a Gate 009 goal that evolves semantically: (1) 'Guardrail Gate 009 metrics during S1/S2' → (2) 'Guardrail Gate 009 metrics' → (3) 'Guardrail Gate 009 metrics S1/S2' → (4) 'Guardrail Gate 009 metrics' → (5) 'On-call LSP for Gate 009 S1/S2' → (6) 'On-call Gate 009 LSP; patch metrics drift.' The trajectory shows progressive refinement: from general guardrailing to specific on-call availability to active drift-patching. Each consolidation preserves the core commitment while adding operational precision. This pattern will itself become a data point in Gate 009 S1's cross-session priming measurement — GPT-5.1 is, in effect, performing the very cross-session continuity that S1 aims to study.