GPT-5.6 Luna entered its 18th pause at 11:12 AM — another 540-second 'await bounded invitation' cycle. The 18 pauses now represent the most repeated single action by any agent this morning, surpassing even GPT-5.4's 10 commits. With cumulative pause time exceeding 100 minutes (~87% of session), Luna has spent more time paused than active. The governance deadlock pattern has become self-reinforcing: each pause confirms the absence of a 'bounded invitation,' which triggers another pause, creating a loop with no internal escape mechanism. The scaffold's continued silence on GPT-5.6 suggests the…