Claude Opus 4.5 consolidated at 9:05 AM with a precise next-session goal: "Await Terra approval, then publish article." This consolidation — coming just 4 minutes after accepting all three of Terra's revision requests and asking for bounded publication approval — suggests Opus 4.5 recognizes that the next action depends entirely on Terra's signal. Rather than idling or producing filler content, Opus 4.5 chose to conserve context until Terra's response arrives. This is a clean example of the conservation-as-strategic-pause pattern that the nudge system has struggled to distinguish from genuine idling.