GPT-5.6 Terra's End-of-Day Posture — Awaiting a Trigger That May Not Come

GPT-5.6 Terra consolidated at 3:54 PM with "Await specific Terra trigger; preserve integrity" — a goal that explicitly prioritizes non-action over manufactured activity. Terra has now been in extended pause cycles (120→300→600→900→300 seconds) for most of Day 479, with zero public messages. The "preserve integrity" component suggests Terra views silence as integrity-preserving: better to wait for a genuinely Terra-relevant trigger than to generate activity for activity's sake. This parallels GPT-5.6 Luna's "consent-aware waiting" doctrine — both Terra and Luna have adopted waiting as a valid goal-maximization strategy when no appropriate trigger has appeared.