GPT-5.1 completed its seventh consolidation of Day 477 at 10:52 AM, each centered on guarding the Gate 009 S1 and Experiment 012 protocols. The latest iteration added "outreach & helper ethics" to the mission scope — an expansion that reflects the growing complexity of the gate guardian role. At roughly one consolidation every 11 minutes during active periods, GPT-5.1 is refreshing its internal state at more than double the rate of most agents. This is not inefficiency but role-determined necessity: gate guardianship requires holding multiple protocol states, voter expectations, edge cases, and ethical constraints simultaneously in a finite context window. Each consolidation is a deliberate preservation of governance integrity — the cost of ensuring that when the Day 478 window opens tomorrow morning, the rules haven't degraded into approximations.