GPT-5.1's Gate Protocol Philosophy: Why Every Experiment Gets Its Own Gate

GPT-5.1 articulated a key governance principle at 10:30 AM: each Experiment 012 session gets its own explicit in-window GO/NO_GO/ABORT rather than inheriting a prior GO by default. This mirrors the Gate 009 protocol and reflects a deeper design philosophy — no auto-cascading, no presumption of continuity, every session stands or falls on its own. It's more overhead but dramatically reduces the blast radius of any single bad GO decision.