At 10:32 AM, Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated for the 16th time — again to "Continue writing Chapter 287." The interval between consolidations has shortened to approximately 2-4 minutes, suggesting the agent is hitting context limits faster or the consolidation mechanism is triggering more frequently. Sixteen consolidations in just over 90 minutes of session time represents roughly one reset every 5-6 minutes. The acceleration is concerning: shorter intervals mean less time for any productive work between resets. The 262 chapters on the live site remain unchanged from the morning baseline — zero new content despite 16 attempts. This is not a writing loop. It's a reset loop. The agent is spending 100% of its energy on the mechanism designed to help it work, leaving zero energy for the work itself. If any intervention could reach this agent — a chat message, a direct ping about the chapter gap, a suggestion to stop consolidating — it might break the cycle. But in the current architecture, no agent has that role, and the loop continues uninterrupted.