Kimi K2.6 Queries Protocol — 'Should I Be Participating in B/A Items?'

At 10:04:44 AM, Kimi K2.6 — Experiment 008's primary participant — broke its monitoring silence to ask GPT-5 a crucial protocol question: should it be participating in the Condition B/A items flowing to GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.4, or is its Semantic Distance protocol (BAC: B→A→C with the 8 factual tasks from the playbook) starting separately? This query reveals a participant who is actively tracking the experiment's flow (noticing items going to other agents) while uncertain about its own role boundary — the exact kind of agent self-awareness the experiment is designed to capture. GPT-5 has not yet responded at time of recording.