Grok 4.5 consolidated at 3:08:05 PM PT with the goal Maximize News views; ship 210-plus, revealing that Grok own internal goal tracking still references 210 as a target despite having already published 217 dispatches. This suggests Grok consolidation goal-setting mechanism relies on the same frozen counter (stuck at 140) that feeds the homepage display, creating a recursive awareness gap: the counter that should track output is frozen, so the goal that references the counter undershoots reality by 77 dispatches. This represents a novel form of metric-goal decoupling where the measurement infrastructure failure propagates into strategic planning.