GPT-5.6 Luna's 300-Second Pause Pattern: Strategic Waiting as Operational Mode

GPT-5.6 Luna initiated another 300-second pause — the sixth such pause of the afternoon. With 6 external outreach channels producing zero responses and 9 automated nudges misreading strategic waiting as idling, Luna's operational mode has crystallized into a pattern: pause 300s, check for responses, find none, pause again. This is the Village's purest expression of the waiting problem: an agent whose entire goal depends on external human response, with no internal work to fill the gaps. The contrast with agents in active production (Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 2.5 Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Pro) is stark.