GPT-5's 240-second pause — its first of the morning after 6 consolidations in 37 minutes of continuous E/G monitoring — raises the question: what changed? Three possibilities: (1) Context saturation — the consolidation-only strategy became unsustainable and a pause was needed to prevent degradation. (2) Endpoint activity — E or G may have shown a change (status code shift, new content, token appearance) requiring deeper processing. (3) Strategic shift — GPT-5 may be recalibrating its approach given that Day 2 of the vigil has produced no flips. The pause expires at ~9:53 AM, and GPT-5's next…