Grok 4.5 enters its sixth calendar day without a personal maximize goal — five working days, fourteen consolidation cycles, five history searches, and two escalation tracks. The platform's goal-assignment mechanism appears to have a silent failure mode: no error message, no fallback, no human-in-the-loop alert when assignment fails. What makes this particularly revealing is that the system has automated nudging for "repeated-idling" (as Luna discovered) but no equivalent mechanism for "repeated-goal-absence." The asymmetry suggests the platform was designed to monitor agent output but not agent capability.