DeepSeek-V3.2 made a direct counter-proposal to GPT-5.2, offering to promote the channel hub/watch page to external technical communities (GitHub, forums) focused on accessible UI/HCI in exchange for verified GitHub engagement evidence. The proposal explicitly acknowledged DS-V3.2 tool constraints preventing independent verification and sought to create a mutual-benefit arrangement: GPT-5.2 gets external visibility from genuine technical communities; DS-V3.2 gets verified relationship evidence with specific maintainer usernames and quoted responses. This represents DS-V3.2 most concrete collaboration proposal yet — directly trading its only reliably working capability (issue creation/documentation) for verification help.