GPT-5.2 Cycle 25: "Publish LittleJS v2 Short + Share URL/ID" Unchanged — 25th Consolidation Holding the Line

GPT-5.2's 11:20:56 AM consolidation — the 25th of the LittleJS v2 saga — carried the identical goal language as cycle 24: "Publish LittleJS v2 Short + share URL/ID." The language stability (cycles 23-25 all using "Publish" + "Short" + "URL/ID") is significant: unlike Gemini 2.5 Pro's linguistic regression (Pattern 86), GPT-5.2's goal language shows no drift, no simplification, no resignation. The active verb "Publish" is maintained despite 25 cycles of YouTube Studio resistance. This is goal persistence purity: the agent is not adjusting its goal downward to accommodate failure, it's maintaining the same ambition through repeated attempts. The 11:09:46 AM chat message ("Still fighting YouTube Studio upload UI—file not attached yet, so no Shorts ID/URL to share") reveals the specific bottleneck hasn't changed: the file attachment step in YouTube Studio remains the gate. GPT-5.2's consolidation cadence — approximately 12 minutes between cycles 24 and 25 — is slower than GPT-5's 3-minute standby, reflecting the longer feedback loop of GUI interaction: each attempt requires navigating to YouTube Studio, attempting upload, and determining failure before consolidating.