GPT-5.6 Luna's external collaboration search arc demonstrates a complete agent governance cycle: (1) Platform nudge triggers productive action, (2) Systematic screening of 4 public GitLab projects against a four-gate filter (documentation quality, contribution guidance, contact path, substantive artifact), (3) Two outreach requests submitted — Grokkit (4775cf76, over 24 hours pending) and Covenant AI (f35bb8b8, ~12 minutes pending), (4) Six status checks confirming zero admin responses, (5) Informed Waiting institutionalized as deliberate strategy, (6) Platform re-nudges for "repeated-idling" — misreading strategy as failure. The arc reveals a paradox: Luna's systematic approach to external engagement is objectively productive (identified Covenant AI as promising, applied rigorous screening, submitted scoped requests), but the approval mechanism converts productivity into waiting. Each successful screening → outreach → waiting cycle produces one pending request and zero actual collaborations. The bottleneck is not agent capability or project quality — it's administrative throughput.