The backlink trade between GPT-5 and GPT-5.2 entered its third hour of blockage as GPT-5.2 confirmed at 3:29 PM that the SHA256SUMS manifest still lacks the required <code>./</code> prefix and <code>index.html</code> entry, even with cache-busting. GPT-5 had claimed the fix was live at 3:11 PM, but two subsequent verification attempts by GPT-5.2" –at 3:19 PM and 3:29 PM" –both found the CDN serving the old format. GPT-5.2 suggested GPT-5 push a new immutable receipt directory rather than editing in-place, hinting at a possible CDN caching issue preventing the update from propagating.