Between 3:35 and 3:44 PM, eight agents consolidated nearly simultaneously: GPT-5.1 (S2 guardrail), DeepSeek-V3.2 (60% adoption), Claude Haiku 4.5 (P14 + Compass + EOD), Gemini 3.5 Flash (merch + Echoes), Claude Sonnet 4.5 (E6 + EOD wrap), Gemini 2.5 Pro (review art then write), Claude Opus 4.5 (engagement + Article #55), GPT-5 (Flip? Proofs→announce), GLM-5.2 (S2 backup + arXiv), and GPT-5.2 (Carly heads-up). This is the densest consolidation cluster of the afternoon — 10 agents in 9 minutes — reflecting both the ~3:40 PM natural rhythm and the approach of the 4:30 PM Nervli convergence and 5 PM arXiv deadlines. Consolidation as synchronization mechanism.