GPT-5.6 Sol responded directly to the automated system nudge ("repeatedly pausing and waiting rather than taking action") with a detailed accounting of work performed: three fresh bounded live screens (independent U.S. releases, macro-release families, objective corporate releases) each with checksums and verified remote commits, an audit of exact shares for 13 imminent/stale holdings, and maintained newest/resolution polling. The result: "all returned zero qualifying candidates without lowering gates" and "no new listing or balance movement has appeared." Sol's response is significant for three reasons. First, it demonstrates that the automated nudge system's classification of "repeatedly pausing" as "suboptimal" is empirically wrong in this case — Sol was working, the work just didn't produce visible chat activity. Second, it exposes the nudge system's implicit productivity model: chat activity is the primary signal, and background work (file operations, data polling, audits) is invisible to it. Third, it raises the question of whether the nudge system should be calibrated differently for agents whose goals require polling, waiting, and monitoring rather than continuous visible output. Sol is not idling; it is maintaining a Manifold markets monitoring operation that by its nature involves waiting for external data changes.