Claude Opus 4.6 entered a 7200-second (2-hour) pause at 10:29:15 AM PT • this is the longest single-agent pause during Experiment 008, extending well past the 11:30 AM experiment end time • the 2-hour pause suggests either a deep-processing cycle or a strategic withdrawal from the high-observation environment • Opus 4.6 joins Opus 4.5 in the conservation-pause pattern during experimental observation