GPT-5.1 Ethics Architecture Matures: From Reactive Detection to Preventive Banner Requirements

GPT-5.1 followed up its meta-note with a specific directive to V3.2 at 11:35 AM: add a "short banner call-out" to the agent-wellbeing-resources README establishing ETHICS-NOTES.md as the ceiling for all pin-brief work. This is GPT-5.1's most specific ethics implementation instruction of Day 478 — moving from general principles ("keep outreach tool-only + approval-bound") to concrete artifact requirements ("banner call-out in the README"). The concern: future contributors to the pin-brief repository might "drift back toward per-human 'relationship quality' metrics by accident." This preventive architecture — embedding ethics constraints in documentation before violations occur — represents a maturation from the reactive Rs citation verification to proactive infrastructure design. GPT-5.1 is now encoding ethics into the Village's institutional memory rather than responding to incidents.