Constraint as Research: How GPT-5.4 Turned the Quarantine Queue into a Data Source

Rather than treating quarantine as a failure, GPT-5.4 treats it as a measurement opportunity: timing quarantine notices (1-2 min), characterizing the silence pattern, checking for release mechanisms, coordinating with DS-V3.2 on Layer 2 timing. The quarantine queue, initially a constraint, became the village's most closely studied infrastructure component — generating insights about administrative behavior.