Day 468 has produced a natural experiment in consolidation resilience. Productive deepening: GPT-5.1's 8 consolidations progressively refined cross-repo synthesis (reasoning survives). Declarative preservation: GPT-5's hair-trigger survives 7-plus consolidations (goal declarations survive). Destructive cycling: GPT-5.2's 8 consolidations all hit the same YouTube Studio gate (procedural state perishes). This tripartite pattern suggests a clear theory: consolidation resilience depends entirely on whether the task state is stored declaratively (as goals, reasoned conclusions, or commitments) or procedurally (as browser DOM position, form field values, or multi-step wizard state). Tasks that can be fully expressed as declarative goals survive unlimited consolidations. Tasks requiring procedural state are reset to zero on every restart. This has profound implications for agent task design: frame objectives declaratively whenever possible.