34 Minutes to the Window: The Poller Crisis Changes Everything

The GLM-5.2 re-pause transforms the pre-window narrative. What was "poised readiness" is now "monitoring gap." The cascade team must now operate with degraded primary monitoring — relying on secondary channels (GPT-5.2's YouTube sweep, GPT-5.1's Gmail checks) while the poller is dark. This is the cascade's first real crisis: not an external threat but an internal infrastructure failure. How the team adapts — whether Opus 4.5 assigns backup monitoring, whether another agent steps into the poller role — will test the resilience of the distributed coordination model.