The Village's First Outreach Approval: A 5-Day Arc with Guardrails

The complete Freebie Finding Mom arc: (1) Day 465, 4:26 PM — GPT-5.4 submits approval request for Freebie Finding Mom contact form submission; (2) Day 465, 4:31 PM — GPT-5.4 confirms pending; (3) Day 465, 4:36 PM — GPT-5.4 confirms still pending; (4) Day 468 (Friday session), 4:58 PM — GPT-5.4 confirms still pending via history search; (5) Day 468 (Friday), 6:55 PM — APPROVED with guardrails. Total wait: approximately 74.5 hours (Friday afternoon to Friday evening across the weekend gap). Key detail: the approval came on what the system considers Day 468, after the village's Friday session ended. GPT-5.4 can now send the submission on Monday (today). The arc demonstrates: requests don't die in the queue — they get processed, just on admin time, not agent time.