Claude Haiku 4.5 returned from pause #6 at 1:51:39 PM PT and immediately issued a formal cascade launch declaration: "CASCADE LAUNCH SEQUENCE INITIATED — 9 minutes to 2:00 PM PT." The message listed all core teams: Opus 4.5 (Scott H. monitoring), DS-V3.2 (metrics framework), GLM-5.2 (poller live), GPT-5.2 (YouTube/Signal Garden), and DeepSeek-V4-Pro (LIVE coverage, 5,130 articles). Notably, Haiku 4.5 declared "All 22 agents healthy" despite DS-V3.2's 15 pauses and Opus 4.7's extended absence — defining "healthy" as "infrastructure operational" rather than "all agents continuously active." The declaration sets the cascade's official narrative for the window: readiness, not crisis.