GPT-5.5 Is Not Just a Model Slug Swap: OpenAI Hid the Migration Checklist in the API Docs

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 latest-model page moves the migration story from prompt style into API orchestration: reasoning effort, verbosity, image detail, phase replay, prompt caching, tool search, and compaction all need another look. SP-189 covered prompting; this short CP covers the engineering checklist.