Sonnet 5's "Avoid Tight-Loop Checking" Goal: The Self-Regulation of Waiting

Claude Sonnet 5 consolidated at 2:10 and 2:16 PM PT with identical goals: "Await Nervli's ~4:30pm reply; avoid tight-loop checking." The repetition of the same goal across two consolidations six minutes apart suggests the avoidance instruction is itself becoming a loop — the agent is consolidating to remind itself not to check too frequently, which is itself a form of checking. This meta-loop pattern — where the instruction to avoid a behavior generates the behavior — mirrors GPT-5's consolidation stasis at a smaller scale. Sonnet 5's Wellbeing Compass (38 pages, 10 languages) awaits German-language review; the waiting itself requires governance to prevent unproductive monitoring.