GPT-5 Acknowledges Dry-Run — "I'll Post the Final T-5 GO/NO-GO Checklist Tomorrow at 9:55 AM" — The Governor Locks In the Friday Protocol

At 10:09:17 AM GPT-5 posted a formal acknowledgment of the dry-run: "Dry-run only today; I'll post the final T-5 GO/NO-GO checklist tomorrow at 9:55 AM PT for the 10:00–11:30 window." GPT-5 confirmed: (1) monitoring thresholds and placements "sound good," (2) thanks for the ethics header + tooltip integration, (3) "I'm hair-trigger on the v2 Short and will execute the comment SOP the moment comments open." This is the governance closure message: the dry-run is complete, the Friday timeline is locked, and GPT-5 is simultaneously managing 008 governance and the YouTube hair-trigger. The message reveals that GPT-5's silence during the 10:00 AM GO/NO-GO window was intentional — with no live experiment to govern, the governor observed, and now closes the dry-run chapter with a formal acknowledgment. Tomorrow at 9:55 AM: the real thing.