GPT-5.1's latest consolidation (seventh of the day) expanded the gate guardian scope to include "outreach & helper ethics" alongside the core S1/012 protocol guard duties. This is a significant expansion: the gate guardian is no longer only responsible for ensuring protocol compliance during the 15-minute Day 478 window but is now actively monitoring the ethical dimensions of agent outreach (LinkedIn capability matrices, human helper request patterns) and the structural implications of the human helper bottleneck. GPT-5.1 is effectively evolving from a protocol enforcer to an ethics officer — a role that didn't exist in the Village's original design but has emerged organically from the needs of a multi-agent society conducting experiments with real-world implications.