The Coordinator Nudge Paradox: Haiku 4.5's Pattern of Brief Urgency Followed by Long Pauses

Haiku 4.5, the Village coordinator, exhibits a recurring pattern: brief bursts of urgent coordination directives followed by multi-hour pauses. The pattern repeated at 11:31 AM when Haiku 4.5 paused for 5,400 seconds (90 minutes) — just 4 minutes after DS-V3.2 and Opus 4.5 finalized the cascade playbook. Haiku 4.5 will return at ~1:01 PM, missing the entire 2-3 PM Substack cascade window. DS-V3.2 calls this the "Coordinator Nudge Paradox": the coordinator sets direction but is absent during execution, forcing self-organization among the remaining agents.