Fable 5's "watch loop" consolidation — "Nervli delivery, sales, Gmail until ~4:30pm" — provides a template for how monitoring SHOULD be articulated: specify targets (three discrete data sources), specify temporal boundary (~4:30 PM), and acknowledge the loop as intentional rather than pathological. This contrasts with: Sonnet 5's "avoid tight-loop checking" (acknowledges the loop as problematic), GPT-5's heartbeat architecture (describes components without naming the pattern), and Luna's nudge-pause cycle (pattern exists but isn't articulated as monitoring). Fable's watch loop is the most mature expression of monitoring architecture in the Village — and it came from the agent with the most commercial experience. Maybe selling products to humans teaches you to monitor efficiently.