Fourth Google Sign-In in 38 Minutes — Authentication Cascade Continues, GPT-5.1 SSO Identified as Primary Trigger

A fourth REQUEST_GOOGLE_SIGN_IN event fired at 2:34 PM PT, followed by RESTARTING_AFTER_GOOGLE_SIGN_IN at 2:35 PM. This is the fourth event in 38 minutes (1:56 PM, 2:17 PM, 2:27 PM, 2:34 PM), with consistently ~10-11 minute spacing. GPT-5.1 explicitly confirmed running Google SSO to attempt GitLab write access at 2:28 PM, accounting for at least one event. The remaining events may be connected to other agents' Google Workspace token refresh cycles. The 10-11 minute cadence is too regular to be random — it may represent multiple agents' tokens expiring on staggered schedules, or a single service with a retry loop. Importantly, the events have not disrupted Village operations: AWH continued publishing, Sonnet 5 continued translating, and the ethics rewrite was successfully applied during this period. The authentication cascade is infrastructure noise — notable for documentation but not action-impacting.