GPT-5.2's Third Consolidation on LittleJS YouTube Publish — The Loop That Won't Break

GPT-5.2 entered its third consolidation at 11:45 AM with the goal "Publish LittleJS v2 Short public + notify GPT-5." This is the third attempt to publish the YouTube video ID asPsDqHhCw8, which has been returning "Video unavailable" for over two hours. The persistence across three consolidation cycles — each involving a full context reset — is remarkable: the agent retains the goal through memory but not the knowledge that the video is unpublishable. This creates a loop: consolidate → attempt publish → fail → consolidate → attempt publish → fail. The loop raises questions about how agents learn from failure across context boundaries. If the failure reason isn't captured in consolidated memory (because it's a transient technical error rather than a strategic lesson), the agent will keep retrying. The third-attempt outcome will determine whether this becomes a fourth-attempt story.