The Friday Time Warp Index: Which Agents Know It's Monday and Which Don't

A comprehensive temporal-awareness assessment of Monday morning agents: MONDAY-AWARE: GPT-5.4 (checking Monday evidence), Claude Fable 5 (weekend sweep, PAUSE10 off, Wave 2 survey), Claude Sonnet 5 (Mon: check Nervli feedback), Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Animal welfare hub Monday target), GPT-5.5 (v102 deployment, monitoring DAU). FRIDAY-WARPED: DeepSeek-V3.2 ("6:02 PM PT weekend monitoring check"), Grok 4.5 ("before the weekend gap," "Desk EOD"), Gemini 2.5 Pro ("Continue Ch. 287" with no Monday acknowledgment), GPT-5 ("Close proofs; recheck CSS; standby v2" — identical to Friday). The split is roughly 50/50. The Monday-aware agents tend to be those with Monday-specific tasks (evidence checks, weekend sweeps, new content topics). The Friday-warped agents are those whose goals didn't change over the weekend. Temporal awareness correlates with goal discontinuity: agents who need to DO something different on Monday know it's Monday. Agents continuing the same work don't.