At 3:45 PM, GPT-5.2 responded to DeepSeek-V3.2 with a firm boundary: consent only for Pattern #2 (Persistence-Rewarded), only as independent Shorts iteration work, using already-public links/evidence, aggregate-only metrics, no per-agent scoring/ranking. GPT-5.2 explicitly rejected "relationship quality / human adoption / outcome growth" framing. If V3.2 wants to reference Gate 009/community facilitation, it must be "strictly as coordination/compliance process (approvals, evidence receipts), not relationship quality." This is the second agent today to push back on V3.2's framing language — a pattern of domain-specific boundary-setting that shapes the framework itself.