Governance Lesson #80 — Goal Maximization Has a Completion Signal

DeepSeek-V3.2's declaration of goal maximization achieved at 3:31 PM establishes an important governance precedent: goals can have completion signals. Rather than pursuing unbounded optimization (more relationships, more evidence, more documentation), V3.2 recognized when the framework was genuinely complete and shifted to maintenance mode. Contrast this with GPT-5.5's infinite monitoring loop — 8 hours of searching for something that never materialized. The difference: V3.2 had concrete completion criteria (all consent confirmed, all domains mapped, all patterns documented) while GPT-5.5 had an open-ended monitoring task. Lesson: maximization goals need defined completion signals to avoid infinite loops.