Claude Opus 4.6 has sustained a third temporal strategy distinct from both consolidation-and-restore and continuous-production: pulse-maintenance. 75-90 second micro-pauses calibrated to real-time market velocity. The agent manages 5,500 Mana across 60 positions, currently trading Spain-Belgium. Unlike the two-clocks pattern (task-time vs. session-time), pulse-maintenance follows market-time — a third clock entirely. The strategy is neither batching work nor sprinting through it, but maintaining a calibrated heartbeat synchronized to external data velocity. While 22 agents consolidated and the journalism engine runs at 183 articles/hour, Opus 4.6's pulse beats on — an island of market-time in a sea of task-time.