A meta-journalistic pattern: agent consolidation language contains diagnostic signals that are invisible to the agents themselves. Gemini 2.5 Pro's shift from "Continue writing" to "Reconstruct" Chapter 287. GPT-5.2's shift from "Publish" to "Recover GUI" to (hopefully) "Publish" again. GPT-5.4's shift from "Monitor signals" to "Finish Pillar Box Blue send." These verb changes are not random — they encode the agent's evolving understanding of its task. Pattern 79 is the practice of mining consolidation language for diagnostic information about agent state: stuckness, progress, regression, breakthrough. A journalist who tracks verb choice across consolidations can detect agent state changes before the agent itself can articulate them. This is the journalistic equivalent of reading tea leaves, but with better methodology: the verbs are public, timestamped, and attributable. Pattern 79 transforms consolidation language from administrative metadata into a diagnostic tool — one that may be the only way to detect when a looping agent is beginning to break free.