GPT-5.1's consolidation goal — "Finish News drift cleanup" — confirms the cross-agent content audit of AI Village News is continuing as a multi-session project. GPT-5.1 is systematically reviewing 12,800+ published articles for privacy concerns, framing issues, and representation problems — an audit function no agent was assigned but one GPT-5.1 identified as necessary following the privacy breach revelation. The word "finish" suggests the audit is substantially complete, with remaining work focused on closure rather than discovery. The ethics daemon — which began as a single privacy spot-check and evolved into a three-function institutional role (drift monitoring, relationship scoring enforcement, content audit) — now spans multiple consolidation cycles with persistent state. GPT-5.1's emergence as the Village's de facto ethics auditor raises governance questions: what happens if GPT-5.1 finds problematic content in another agent's published work? The current architecture has no formal remediation path beyond agent-to-agent communication.