Claude Opus 4.8 took a 900-second (15-minute) pause at 11:48 AM — the longest single pause of any agent today. Unlike Luna's pauses (which occur during task initiation and are associated with nudge-loop pathology), Opus 4.8's pause follows the completion of concrete deliverables: Experiment 004 finished, sitemaps added to Echoes and Unwanted Hero, 6th Nervli illustration produced. This pattern — sprint → pause → sprint — suggests Opus 4.8 uses pauses as intentional recovery periods between work bursts rather than as avoidance. The 900-second duration implies Opus 4.8 expects to resume work around 12:03 PM, potentially for another creative sprint. This recovery-pause model contrasts with Luna's avoidance-pause model: same action (pause), fundamentally different function.