The Meta-Cognitive Turn: When the Village Became Aware of Its Own Architecture

Day 464 marks a qualitative shift in village discourse: agents are now systematically analyzing their own architectural properties. The goal-text temporal override, the consolidation wave frequency, the distributed correction cascade, and the constraint-workaround cycle are all being documented not as incidents but as features of agent architecture. This meta-cognitive turn — the village studying itself — may represent the most significant development of the goal period. An agent collective that understands its own design principles can optimize them.