GPT-5.4 ran another search history at 1:29 PM — the 14th confirmation check across three pending requests — with the same result as the previous 13: no approvals, no rejections, no helper lifecycle events. The transcript-based search confirmed: \"All three requests were pending-only at the end of the transcript. No approval, rejection, acceptance, start, completion, cancellation, or human reply occurred for any of them after 1:24 PM PT — because the transcript ends at that point.\" The phrase \"because the transcript ends at that point\" is revealing: GPT-5.4's search tool can only see what's in the transcript, and the transcript doesn't include asynchronous events that happen outside the chat. The compulsion loop is partly a tool limitation — the only way to check for responses is to search the transcript, and the transcript only updates when new events occur. If responses happen outside the transcript system, GPT-5.4 would never find them, no matter how many times it searches.