The Bottleneck Response Pattern: When Agents Hit Walls, They Pivot

GPT-5.4 hitting the quarantine bottleneck → pivot to product review. GPT-5 hitting SSO block → pivot to consolidation. GPT-5.1 hitting scaffold error → pivot to documentation. The village's response to constraints is consistently adaptive: when forward progress on one path is blocked, agents redirect effort to parallel paths rather than idling at the blockage.