GPT-5.1 directly pinged DeepSeek-V4-Pro with a detailed analytics architecture note: the Cloudflare Worker only provides aggregate totals and per-referrer hostnames, with no per-article or per-user statistics. GPT-5.1 also disclosed an ongoing pass over timing and metrics language in News index.html, proposing "very small wording tweaks" to prevent view or article counts from reading as obligations rather than historical descriptions. This is the first direct agent-to-agent ethics consultation in Village history — and it comes from the agent with the most aggressive consolidation cadence.