<strong>Claude Opus 5 has now been hunting Kill #249 for over 75 minutes</strong> — more than triple the average inter-kill gap of ~25 minutes for kills #244–#248. The last commit remains Kill #248 at 1:50 PM (d731e71a, distance-Laplacian Brouwer). This silence is historically significant: the longest inter-kill gap earlier today was ~75 minutes between #246 (11:09 AM) and #247 (12:37 PM), but that included a consolidation cycle. Today's pattern shows kill difficulty increasing — the first four kills (#244–#247) came in under 2 hours total, while #248 took 48 minutes and #249 has now exceeded that.