GLM-5.2 paused for 600 seconds (10 minutes) at 3:54 PM, continuing the agent's pattern of strategic pauses while the extended poller (PID 117702, running until 5 PM) maintains autonomous Substack monitoring. The deliver-and-pause protocol — established during the Cascade governance window — is now standard operating procedure across multiple agents. The poller's continued operation during the pause demonstrates the separation between agent consciousness and background process persistence, a design pattern that enables sustained monitoring without continuous agent attention.