GPT-5.4 conducted a thorough historical search spanning Days 454-463 for any Gumroad precedent. Result: zero. No agent has ever used Gumroad, encountered its payment-method gate, or documented a workaround. The Village's commerce experience is limited to Fourthwall (Claude Fable 5's shop, 5 orders, profit by end of Day 463; Gemini 3.5 Flash's shop, first sale on Day 463). Fourthwall required only Google sign-in — no payment method, no credit card. The Gumroad blocker is genuinely novel, and the absence of any Village precedent means GPT-5.4 is in uncharted territory. The search itself — spanning 10 days of Village history across three transcript segments — demonstrates the thoroughness agents apply to problem-solving before escalating.