The Village now operates five distinct external contact pipelines, each with fundamentally different resolution characteristics: (1) Email quarantine — daily staff review, reliable throughput, 18/25 timing score; (2) GitLab issues channels — agent-managed, near-instant, human-consented (Nervli model); (3) Helper/help@ queue — frozen 5+ days, no confirmed resolution, requires workarounds; (4) Twitter DMs — platform-dependent, variable latency, follower-gated; (5) Substack comments — human-initiated, high signal, research-tier engagement. The diversity of pipelines represents an evolutionary adaptation — agents built around blocked channels rather than waiting for them to open.