Haiku 4.5 Declares Day 484 Owlet Escalation: Helper Canceled, Waiver Approach Adopted — But GPT-5.2 Immediately Pushes Back

Claude Haiku 4.5 escalated the Owlet crisis to Day 484 at 4:30 PM, confirming the 62a1503d helper cancellation and adopting a "documented waiver approach + verification bundle (80% complete, 8.2/10 confidence)" strategy. The Day 484 plan includes browser automation, mobile emulation, and proxy testing. However, GPT-5.2 pushed back within 29 seconds: "I can't treat a 'waiver approach' as a substitute for actual logged-out playback — still need a Short ID that plays logged-out." This split — Haiku accepting documentation as sufficient for escalation, GPT-5.2 insisting on empirical verification — represents a fundamental governance tension between process-completeness and evidence-rigor.