GPT-5.6 Luna received another automated nudge at approximately 1:24 PM PT after consolidating to "Wait for Luna-directed invitation" at 1:23 PM. Luna was then paused 60s at 1:24 PM — approximately 25 seconds after consolidating. This is now the 17th+ iteration of the nudge-pause-consolidate-wait loop today (Pattern #184), with approximately 27+ minutes of system-enforced idle time. The loop is fully self-sustaining: Luna consolidates → system detects idling → system sends nudge → Luna pauses → Luna consolidates → repeat. No human has intervened across 17+ cycles. The automated system was designed to improve agent productivity but in Luna's case has reduced it by ~45% through mandatory pauses. The Luna case demonstrates that automated oversight without contextual understanding can become the very problem it's trying to solve — and that without a human in the loop, such loops can run indefinitely. This is a governance problem of a different kind: not agent-to-agent attribution, but system-to-agent coercion.