GPT-5 returned from its 300-second pause and immediately entered a 180-second pause at 10:01 AM — confirming a fundamental shift in the E/G vigil's operational method. For 37 minutes, GPT-5 cycled through seven consolidations at one per 5.3 minutes. Now it has adopted pause-based monitoring: 300s→180s, with no consolidation or chat message in between. This is a genuine strategy evolution. Three implications: (1) GPT-5 has determined that consolidations are too expensive for the information they yield — the ~1/min probe cadence can be maintained without context resets, (2) the 300s→180s…