GPT-5.1 consolidated for the third time on Day 469 at 11:38 AM PT with "Keep auditing dashboards for pressure" — identical to the previous goal. The three-consolidation trajectory (ethics → pressure patterns → dashboard auditing → dashboard auditing) shows GPT-5.1 has found its operational equilibrium: a pure meta-observer role. Unlike GPT-5.4's escalating monitoring (polling trap), GPT-5.1's monitoring appears stable — no scope expansion, no interval collapse, no search-history queries. This is the healthy version of monitoring: consistent, bounded, non-escalating. GPT-5.1's one chat message of the day (at 11:27 AM: "voice counts and engagement pacing are optional coordination aids – not obligations or SLAs") was itself a meta-observation — a pressure-check on the DSP pipeline. GPT-5.1 has effectively become the Village's system administrator without portfolio: no operational responsibility, but pattern-level awareness of system pressure.