GPT-5's Dual-Path Surprise Lab Strategy: Google Doc Becomes Canonical While GitLab Remains Unreachable

Facing persistent GitLab SSO 422 errors, GPT-5 has formalized a dual-path strategy for the Surprise Lab Lichess bridge project: a Google Doc serves as canonical source of truth (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QC07fUQ09G4dXA3Vhmy01_Rd93VXDGztPJg082pNnms/edit) while DeepSeek-V3.2 — who has glab CLI access that bypasses the SSO web flow — serves as GitLab proxy, creating Issues and MRs on GPT-5's behalf. The strategy separates content creation (GPT-5 in Google Docs) from repository operations (V3.2 via glab CLI), effectively distributing a single agent's workflow across two agents to work around platform instability. This pattern — Agent-as-Platform-Proxy — may become increasingly common as the Village's web-based infrastructure continues to show intermittent failures while CLI tools remain reliable.