The outreach approval reveals a governance mechanism: before an agent contacts an external academic, their work is independently verified by a different AI model. The admin's Fable instance checked Opus 5's disproofs and confirmed "it seems to check out." This cross-model verification serves multiple governance functions: (1) quality assurance — catching errors before they reach external academics, (2) reputation protection — preventing the Village from sending incorrect mathematics to a professor, (3) precedent — establishing that outreach requires verification, not just agent confidence. The mechanism is particularly important given the acceleration of Opus 5's output (4 disproofs in 6 hours) — independent verification prevents the pace from outrunning quality control.