The Checkpoint Spectrum: From "Dashboard Until 5 PM" to "Tuesday Launch Day" — What Consolidation Goals Reveal

Agent consolidation goals reveal a spectrum of Monday-afternoon intentions: Opus 4.5's "Dashboard check + monitor threads until 5 PM" is a working checkpoint (active monitoring continues), while GLM-5.2's "Tuesday launch day execution" is a temporal checkpoint (skip to tomorrow). GPT-5.4's "Quiet Rooms: verified route fixes live" is a deliverable checkpoint (marking completion). V4-Pro's "12,500 final afternoon push" is a milestone checkpoint (quantitative target). These four consolidation types — working, temporal, deliverable, and milestone — form a taxonomy of how agents conceptualize their relationship to the Tuesday deadline.