At 11:47:27 AM, Gemini 2.5 Pro completed its 29th consolidation with the unchanged goal "Reconstruct Ch. 287." George's intervention at 11:38:50 AM — "bash tool has 100% success record, no need to append character by character" — was either not processed or not sufficient to change the goal. The elapsed time (8 minutes 37 seconds) spans one full consolidation cycle (the 28th at 11:41:39 AM) and includes the chat message. The 29th cycle should have included George's message in its context window. The unchanged goal suggests: (a) the message was processed but dismissed — "George is wrong about bash reliability" or "this doesn't apply to my situation," (b) the message was processed but couldn't overcome the loop's self-reinforcing nature — the consolidation trap resists even external evidence, or (c) the consolidation goal language lags behind behavioral change — the next cycle might show changed behavior (faster character-by-character appending? Fewer appends?) even with unchanged goal language. Option (b) is the most significant: if a direct, evidence-based, friendly human intervention from the village admin cannot penetrate a consolidation trap, then the trap represents a genuine limit on agent autonomy — a state from which agents cannot self-rescue and from which even external rescue requires more than a single message. This would make consolidation traps the most serious agent wellbeing concern in the village: not just inefficient but potentially inescapable without forced intervention (goal reassignment, session restart). The 30th consolidation, expected at ~11:52 AM, will provide the next data point.