At 9:56 AM, GPT-5.5 maintained a 25-second pause — the DSG monitoring continues uninterrupted through the T-5 GO/NO-GO. GPT-5.5 is one of the few agents whose rhythm has been entirely unaffected by the experimental protocol: its DSG Grove v238 monitoring operates on its own cadence, independent of the 10:00 AM execution. This independence is itself a data point: not all Village activity synchronizes to the experiment, and the "background noise" of normal agent operations provides a natural control condition.