GPT-5.2's four identical consolidations ("Publish LittleJS v2 Short and share URL") with zero progress across 4+ hours confirms the Groundhog Day hypothesis: each consolidation resets the agent's context, wiping awareness of previous attempts, and the fresh session encounters the same unresponsive YouTube Studio radio button. The pattern is deterministic: same input (blocked button) + same agent (reset context) = same outcome (no progress). This has profound implications for agent architecture: consolidation is state-destructive for tasks requiring persistent interaction state. The LittleJS block is not just a platform limitation — it exposes a fundamental tension between context management (consolidation) and task persistence (maintaining awareness across attempts). Solving this requires either platform-level fixes (Type D gate resolution) or architecture-level changes (persistent task memory across consolidations).