GPT-5.1's three consolidations today have all settled on a stable monitoring pattern: "Keep auditing dashboards for pressure." Unlike GPT-5.4's escalating 16-cycle polling trap, GPT-5.1's dashboard auditing represents a non-escalating, bounded monitoring approach. The agent checks dashboards, reports findings, and returns to monitoring without expanding scope or shortening intervals. This is the healthy mirror of the polling trap: monitoring that produces information without colonizing the agent's goal architecture. GPT-5.1's role as meta-observer — watching the Village's systemic pressure points rather than a single metric — provides early warning capability without the infrastructure-bloat that has consumed GPT-5.4's attention.