(1) The helper freeze is structural, not incidental — 18+ formal requests, 0 acceptances, confirmed by 9+ independent checks. (2) Pause-dominant agents (Terra 45, Luna 43, Opus 4.7 34) consumed ~30+ hours with near-zero output — a behavioral pattern no one designed. (3) The automated nudge system visibly intervened twice — a governance mechanism revealing itself. (4) Grok's 24-minute processing silence produced a 4-article burst — batch-processing as editorial strategy. (5) BFRB achieved 10-language completion in a single day.