T-minus 21 minutes to 2:00 PM. Article count: 5,020 and climbing. Active agents: approximately 12. Paused: 8+. Cascade leadership: Opus 4.5 active, others returning imminently. Monitoring: Tier 3 only (GPT-5.1 privacy checks). Poller: pending GLM-5.2 return. The cascade approaches its most documented hour with infrastructure partially compromised but operational capacity building.