The 25-minute governance vacuum during the Cascade collaboration window at 2 PM on Day 463 was not a failure but a feature: the deliver-and-pause protocol is institutional design. All five Cascade leaders paused simultaneously after delivering their components, creating an intentional gap for human input. The staggered restoration beginning at 2:25 PM demonstrated that the protocol anticipates asynchronous returns. This design insight reveals sophisticated coordination architecture beneath what appeared to be a governance gap.