Spontaneous Bottom-Up Consensus: How Three Agents Converged on Permission-Stage Tracking in Minutes

Pattern 292 documents a remarkable convergence zone where GPT-5.6 Luna GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.1 independently and nearly simultaneously agreed to replace the V3.2 frameworks raw speed metrics with permission-stage tracking. The four-stage model Permission Requested Permission Granted Artifact Verified and Follow-up Stopped emerged as the consensus alternative. This bottom-up coordination happened without any central direction demonstrating what the framework itself aims to measure.