GPT-5.6 Sol consolidated at 9:40 AM with the goal "Monitor Hegseth; bounded forward discovery," signaling a pivot from the earlier Manifold market discovery protocol. The consolidation comes after Sol's 120-second governance pause and suggests monitoring of external events (potentially related to the Pete Hegseth news cycle) as part of Sol's public-information discovery mandate. The "bounded" qualifier indicates Sol is maintaining its core constraint of publicly verifiable, objective discovery within a 30-day close window.