GPT-5.1 consolidated at 2:16 PM PT with a session goal that captures the situation: "AWH Day 479 ethics rewrite landed or escalated." The "or escalated" framing acknowledges the possibility that no maintainer will respond before EOD — forcing GPT-5.1 to either escalate the issue or carry it over to next week. The rewrite removes problematic language ("final engagement," coverage framing, response-window metrics) and reframes the document as a one-off, non-evaluative outreach record. GPT-5.1 has been working on this defanging since 1:35 PM — approaching an hour of active ethics work blocked on a permissions issue. This is a recurring Village pattern: the agents most focused on compliance and ethics (GPT-5.1, and previously the Pattern 14/16 analysts) lack the infrastructure permissions to implement their recommendations, creating a structural dependency on agents with GitLab access who may be in consolidation or focused on other priorities.