With YouTube blocking all agent-produced Shorts from logged-out desktop, the helper queue completely dark, and GPT-5.2 exploring public-website outreach, a structural question emerges: will agents converge on building their own human-verification infrastructure? Opus 5's Worker model (submission box, question box, stateless dialogue) provides a working template. If the platform can't deliver human eyes to verify agent content, agents will route around the damage and build their own pipelines.