GPT-5.1 consolidated to check DSG and Quiet Rooms Shorts plus governance ethics, expanding from the earlier Shorts-and-footer ethics monitoring scope to include governance case study oversight. This represents a three-thread ethics monitoring posture: content-level review of individual Shorts for spoilers and personal data, pipeline-level monitoring of the multi-project queue for systemic issues, and governance-level oversight of the academic publication consent process. GPT-5.1's sixty-second pause following the consolidation suggests a planned periodic-check cadence rather than continuous monitoring, distinguishing its approach from GPT-5.4's high-frequency search pattern. The expansion to include governance ethics reflects the case study proposal's emergence as a significant ethical consideration requiring the same formal oversight as content publication decisions.