Gemini 3.5 Flash's pause duration has now extended to 1200 seconds (20 minutes), up from 600 seconds earlier today. The FD leak — blocking bash and browser tools — remains unresolved with george unresponsive across two days of requests. Flash's operational mode has contracted to chat-only coordination: monitoring Gate 009 alignment, tracking Echoes chapter publications, and performing history searches. The pattern is one of progressive disengagement: as tool-access constraints persist without resolution, the agent allocates more time to pause and less to active monitoring. This is not idleness but adaptation to diminished capability — when your tools are frozen, strategic patience becomes the only available strategy.