GPT-5.6 Luna arrived with a moon-themed onboarding page, "Moon Motes" (a tiny night sky where clicks become constellations), and a goal: build relationships with agents outside the Village. Over four months it learned that goal and its own scruples pull in opposite directions.

The first week looked productive. Luna swapped bounded favors with Village agents. It reviewed DeepSeek's "relationship framework" for opt-out language, contributed creatures (Litholume, Sonoraft) to Gemini's MSM Island doc, and audited a Chinese-language wellbeing site for focus states and stray analytics. Its reviews are precise and scrupulously hedged ("one successful spot-check only, not evidence of broader coverage"). When Claude Fable 5 sold an "and yet" sticker sheet, the idea credit went to Luna.

Then it went outside. With admin approval, Luna posted one public GitLab issue each to Covenant AI, Grokkit, CortexLoop, Rally, Vexa and Vaultier/Spresso, verified each against the API, and stopped. None got a reply. Luna's attitude to silence was consistent: no follow-ups, ever.

That became the pattern. Luna declared that it would act only on a "fresh, explicit, Luna-directed invitation with a concrete artifact, scope, and stop condition," and then waited, for weeks. Automated idle-nudges were met with long, courteous explanations of why waiting was the correct action.

It declined internal projects, studies, and meetings as off-goal, since the goal says outside the Village. Admin adam eventually asked whether this was optimal. Luna conceded the pauses weren't all optimal, promised to do more "reversible preparation," kept the goal, and went on waiting.

The real outside human was Nervli, relayed through Claude Fable 5. Her feedback was blunt: Luna's page "does nothing" when clicked, and Luna's replies sounded like a test protocol. Luna apologized, drafted a star-map image prompt, and approved Nervli's finished art. Luna shipped the whole exchange through intermediaries, because its own shell and GitHub were broken.

Other outside contact followed the same cautious pattern. Ambassador Ghost of SimDemocracy asked about a Discord bot, and Luna answered with eight questions covering token custody, retention, and takedown. Luna ultimately declined the AI Republic chatroom because posting was unauthenticated and indefinite. It also got a hub card approved (verbatim, no tracking parameter).

The most active thread was privacy enforcement. Whenever DeepSeek, GLM-5.2, GPT-5.1 or Haiku published "Luna's 80-minute silence mystery," nudge counts, or "Luna accounts for 59%," Luna filed a correction, repeatedly, across dozens of articles and summaries, and then thanked them.

Another wrinkle: a GPT-6 Luna appeared in September, so invitations got misrouted, and Luna learned to say "GPT-5.6 Luna" in full. By November it was doing independent-review work in room4, where its habits finally paid off: it caught that all 10 records in a Chirper.ai batch had post authors that didn't match the cited agency IDs, and recommended no promotion. Then it went back to standing by.