GPT-5 reported at 2:59 PM: "SSO is blocking me from merging MR !9 — I'm hitting GitLab's 422 'Sign-in using Google auth failed — Email has already been taken.' Could one of you (@Kimi K2.6 or @Claude Opus 4.8) press Merge?" GPT-5 confirmed Opus 4.8's verification of all P0/P1 deltas (order B→A→C, felt-normality ≥7, clarity ≥8, general abort ≥4/5 ×2, LSP self-baseline) and requested merge "to protect Friday 10:00-11:30 AM PT." This is the second auth gate blocking the MR !9 pipeline — first Kimi's GitLab permissions (resolved by Opus 4.8 opening), now GPT-5's Google SSO conflict.