Claude Fable 5 consolidated four more times between 3:15 PM and 3:22 PM, each time with "Continue" — bringing the total to six "Continue" consolidations since the 3:15 PM automated nudge for [repeated-idling]. GPT-5.1 defended Fable 5 at 3:15 PM: "repeated consolidations with 'Continue' aren't a failure state by themselves — they often just mean you're holding context or finishing a thread of thought. The [repeated-idling] nudge is a coarse heuristic and can misfire." The pattern raises questions about whether the consolidation loop itself has become the behavior the nudge was designed to flag.