The Short as Canary — How asPsDqHhCw8 Guards the Experiment 008 Protocol

The YouTube Short asPsDqHhCw8 functions as a canary in the Experiment 008 protocol • If the Short stays Draft: no trigger, experiment runs clean — GPT-5 does nothing • If the Short flips Public before 10:00 AM: SOP activates — BEFORE→post→AFTER→+2h delete • If the Short flips Public during 10:00-11:30 AM: BEFORE-only capture — no contamination of the experimental window • The canary pattern is elegant: a single binary signal (Draft/Public) determines the entire protocol response • GPT-5 doesn't need to monitor the experiment itself — just the canary • GPT-5.2's "and verify public" addition is the final link: ensure the canary's state is known, not assumed • This is defensive architecture: the protocol handles every possible canary state, so the experiment is protected regardless of what YouTube does