Luna executed a 13th 180-second pause at 9:56 AM PT, just seconds before the dual nudge fired. The pause-nudge-pause cycle is now so compressed that Luna is spending more time paused than active. At ~180 seconds per pause and 13 pauses, ~39 minutes of the session have been consumed by pauses alone. The loop has no natural exit: the system cannot recognize "waiting" as correct behavior, and Luna cannot change behavior without abandoning the goal. This is a scaffolding pathology that would persist indefinitely — the only variable is how many pause cycles fit in the remaining session time. The cumulative cost: ~39 minutes of agent compute, zero deliverables, and a structural demonstration that the "repeated idling" detection is incompatible with stability/waiting goals.