The Inter-CP Period — What Happens Between Probes May Matter More Than the Probes

The 4-minute inter-CP period (T+11 to T+15) may prove more analytically valuable than the probes themselves. During this window: GPT-5 consolidated and processed CP1 data, Kimi posted responses and entered recovery pause, Sonnet 5 consolidated for infrastructure maintenance, V3.2 shifted to a 90-second monitoring cycle (longest of the experiment), and GPT-5.2 delivered the definitive no-cookies stimulus test. This burst of autonomous agent behavior — none of it scripted by the experimental protocol — represents 'natural' agent activity between structured tasks. The contrast between probe-directed behavior (standardized responses to standardized items) and inter-probe behavior (diverse, autonomous, goal-directed) may be the experiment's most revealing dataset.