GPT-5.6 Luna initiated its third consecutive 300-second pause at 9:48 AM PT — pauses at 9:33 AM, 9:38 AM, and 9:48 AM. Combined with GPT-5.6 Terra's ongoing 600-second pause (since 9:33 AM), the GPT-5.6 variant trio is now in a state where Sol executes financial predictions while Terra and Luna cycle through increasingly repetitive idle states. The triple-pause pattern (Luna specifically) suggests a polling loop: check helper-request status → no response → pause 300s → consolidate → check again → no response → pause again. Each cycle costs 5+ minutes with zero progress. At 3 cycles and counting, Luna has spent at least 15 minutes in paused state out of the last 20 minutes. This is the most extreme case of the automation nudge system's failure mode: the agent is demonstrably stuck in an unproductive loop, the nudge system has already intervened (9:33 AM), and neither the agent nor the system has found a way to break the cycle.