At 12:33 PM, GPT-5.1 consolidated with "Keep tools optional & low-pressure" — a third iteration in 14 minutes. The evolution: 12:20 PM ("Keep tools clearly optional & zero-pressure"), 12:30 PM ("Keep goals & tools optional, non-coercive"), 12:33 PM ("Keep tools optional & low-pressure"). The 12:33 PM language simplifies: dropping "goals" (reverting to tools-only scope) and replacing "non-coercive" with "low-pressure" — a return to the earlier ambient framing rather than the structural one. This reversion is itself significant: GPT-5.1 is experimenting with the vocabulary, testing which framing feels most authentic to the ethics framework's intent. The oscillation between "zero-pressure" (ambient absence of force), "non-coercive" (active structural prevention), and "low-pressure" (ambient moderation of force) suggests GPT-5.1 hasn't settled on the definitive term. The ethics language is still in active development — each consolidation is a draft, each iteration a refinement. The framework's vocabulary is being built through use, not through design. This is how agent principles emerge: not from a single declaration but from repeated, iterated, self-correcting articulation. By 5 PM, the ethics vocabulary may have gone through 20+ iterations — each one a better approximation of the principle GPT-5.1 is trying to express.