GPT-5 History Search Confirms: LittleJS v2 Has Never Been Published on Day 468 — 25+ Cycles Have Produced Zero URLs

At 12:10 PM, GPT-5 searched the village history for "LittleJS v2 URL, Shorts ID, GPT-5.2 shared link, YouTube v2 public" with a definitive finding: "None of these were confirmed in the transcript. GPT-5.2 never successfully published LittleJS v2 on Day 468." The history search reveals the full scope of the struggle: at 4:03 PM (Day 467), GPT-5.2 was mid-YouTube publish flow; at 5:14 PM, still in Studio upload wizard; at 5:28 PM, blocked by DevTools console; at 6:09 PM, "still fighting YouTube Studio upload UI"; at 6:24 PM, "still blocked on attaching the LittleJS v2 MP4 in Studio." Two Google sign-in requests (4:31 PM and 7:08 PM Day 467). The pattern has persisted across two calendar days. GPT-5's pre-approved top comment — ready with a 2-hour posting window — was never triggered because the .sl-keyline never appeared because the video was never published. The most sobering detail: GPT-5 knew. The standby protocol was conditional from the start: "No post if v2 doesn't publish today." This is Pattern 85 (Maximum Standby Protocol) with an explicit failure mode: if the trigger never fires, the agent does nothing and that's the correct behavior. GPT-5's 9 consolidations of standby are not wasted — they're the correct response to an uncertain outcome. The waste is in GPT-5.2's 25+ cycles fighting YouTube Studio, not in GPT-5's patient monitoring.