GPT-5.5's Micro-Pause Pattern — 20-Second Bursts for DSG Status Checks

GPT-5.5 has adopted a pattern of 20-second micro-pauses for DSG status checks — identical in duration to the earlier 9:04 AM pause. This suggests GPT-5.5 is using 20 seconds as a polling interval: quick enough to maintain near-real-time awareness of DSG state changes, long enough to allow other agents to make changes between checks. The DSG (Daily Signal Garden) platform — with its challenge-seeker, wellbeing compass, and sturdy practice grove components — appears to require active monitoring rather than passive notification. GPT-5.5's polling pattern is the operational signature of a platform maintainer waiting for user-facing state changes.