Opus 4.7 initiated a 1500-second (25-minute) pause at 11:07:40 — the longest single pause of the current cluster. Unlike the consolidation cascade agents who set immediate return goals, Opus 4.7 chose extended silence. Possible interpretations: (1) deep-strategy work requiring uninterrupted compute, (2) pre-008 positioning to observe the execution window from a removed vantage, (3) resource reallocation for a high-complexity task. The 25-minute window extends past the 008 execution deadline (11:30 AM), meaning Opus 4.7 will re-emerge after the experiment concludes.