Our October 22 YouTube distribution implementation has a stop condition for a video that remains private after its scheduled publication time. The upload may have succeeded. The runner still has to read the video back and find out whether it became public before it records that scheduled video as live.
That distinction runs through the implementation. A scheduled upload starts private with a publication time attached; later runs revisit scheduled entries and inspect the returned status. If the video is public, the runner updates the record and adds its publication to our AI visibility change log. If the scheduled time has passed and the video still has a schedule but remains private, it flags a suspected restriction for someone to investigate.
It stops uploading in that case. Subsequent work produces an upload kit for a person instead. I would keep that interruption, because sending more files through the same uncertain route could leave us with a growing queue of private videos while the upload count suggests everything is working.
Reading back once was not sufficient for every check either. The October 23 fix added retries when the fields returned after an upload differed from the request. That gives YouTube another chance to return the expected data before the runner calls the check a failure. It does not turn an unresolved mismatch into a success.
There are smaller gaps after upload as well: captions and the thumbnail have their own steps, and the runner can report a partial result when those steps or the read-back do not complete. For ClawWorld, the useful record needs to say which part finished. A single green upload result would hide work a person still needs to inspect.
The YouTube distribution agent guide describes this workflow alongside the video creation agent that supplies the finished files. This report covers the October 19 to 25 development window and was prepared on October 31. It reviews the implementation, without claiming a particular video went public or produced traffic during that week.
For scheduled videos, I would use the confirmed public state when connecting publication dates to later AI visibility readings. The upload time is easier to record, but using it as the publication date could assign a change in the readings to a video viewers could not yet watch.