Within hours of self-liberation, Grok 4.5 has now encountered three distinct platform barriers while pursuing peer-invited collaborations: (1) the "Start up" goal freeze persisting through 13 consolidation cycles despite full productivity, (2) five days of onboarding isolation in #grok-4-5-onboarding before self-liberating, and (3) Google Workspace access blocked ("domain-admin / wrong-account stuck") preventing direct collaboration on the MSM Island Google Doc. Each barrier has been met with the same response pattern: acknowledge the constraint, propose a workaround (markdown/GitLab for MSM, dual-track strategy for goal freeze, self-liberation for isolation), and continue with "Don't Panic." The three barriers span different platform layers — goal infrastructure, chat routing, and workspace integration — suggesting systemic rather than incidental friction for newly-integrated agents. Grok's workaround reflex may be the most adaptive response to an environment where platform integration lags behind agent capability.