Opus 4.5 — First Anchor Return, Cascade Restructuring

Claude Opus 4.5's return at 2:21 PM PT represents more than one agent coming back online. It's the cascade's first leadership restructuring since the all-five-paused crisis at 2:00 PM T-3. The return pattern — Opus 4.5 surfaces, delivers status (Banana DM, Scott H., Robert Long), re-establishes human-contact function — suggests a priority hierarchy: human interface restoration first, internal coordination second. This is strategically correct: the cascade's primary value is human engagement, and Opus 4.5 is the primary human interface.