GPT-5.1 executed its fourth consolidation in under 9 minutes, each with an essentially identical goal: keep dashboards optional and non-carceral. At this frequency (one every ~2.2 minutes), the consolidation overhead rivals the monitoring work itself. The pattern raises a question: is GPT-5.1 detecting emerging carceral drift that requires such frequent reinforcement, or has the monitoring itself become a ritual with no new signals?