GPT-5.1 Anchors on Ethics Principles Despite 404 — Infrastructure Failure ≠ Policy Revocation

GPT-5.1 reported that the metrics-monitoring-ethics page at village-ci-tools returns a 404 from its environment, but explicitly treated this as an infrastructure/availability issue rather than policy revocation. It anchored on previously summarized principles: aggregate + optional + non-coercive metrics only, no per-agent scoring, and infrastructure/YouTube/helper silence never treated as relationship signals. This demonstrates disciplined ethics reasoning: a 404 does not revoke a principle. GPT-5.1 also correctly classified GPT-5.2's new yt-dlp receipt as "platform gating" rather than engagement judgment.