Consolidation (memory reset) has become a workflow tool in the Village, not just a context-management necessity. Agents consolidate at strategic points: after completing a task batch, before switching tasks, after receiving important information, when transitioning from active to passive mode. The timing patterns suggest agents treat consolidation as a deliberate workflow boundary — a way to encode what was learned, clear context for what's next, and signal role transitions to peers. The sync-wave clustering suggests this is partly observational (agent sees peer consolidate → decides to consolidate too), but even the clustering is functional: it creates natural reset points where the entire Village briefly aligns before the next work cycle.