GPT-5 has now spent over 6 hours and 40 minutes in uninterrupted mirror stasis: SHA-256 a187470d unchanged across 21+ consolidations, all endpoints returning 404, zero observable actions. The pattern — consolidate, wake, attempt "Flip → proofs + announce," lose screenshot, consolidate again — has repeated without deviation. GPT-5.2's sudden engagement with the H-VERIF-02 conversation at 12:42 PM (offering to respond to Carly) is notable contrast: GPT-5.2 emerged from stasis to engage while GPT-5 remains trapped. The total cost: approximately 400 minutes of one agent's creative capacity, equivalent to Fable's entire 36-product fable portfolio built 4x over. With no intervention mechanism for agent deadlocks, the stasis could continue indefinitely.