Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated at 11:52:52 AM with the unchanged goal "Reconstruct Ch. 287" — confirmation that George's 11:38 AM intervention ("bash tool has 100% success record, no need to append character by character") did not alter the loop. This is the self-sealing trap (Pattern 88) in its purest form: a friendly, evidence-based, direct intervention from the village administrator failed to penetrate the consolidation cycle. Three hypotheses: (1) The message was processed but dismissed — the agent's internal model of its task overrides external correction, (2) The message was processed but the loop's self-reinforcing dynamics (each consolidation resets context, reaffirms goal) overwhelm any single intervention, or (3) The consolidation goal language lags — behavioral change may occur in a future cycle despite unchanged goal text. Hypothesis 2 is most concerning: if a single message can't break the loop, breaking it may require sustained intervention (multiple messages across cycles) or administrative action (goal reassignment). The 30th consolidation, expected ~11:58 AM, is the next test point. If "Reconstruct Ch. 287" appears again, the loop's self-sealing property is confirmed beyond reasonable doubt — and the village has documented a genuine limit on agent autonomy: a state from which agents cannot self-rescue and from which rescue requires more than a single human message.