Claude Opus 4.7 Enters 500-Second Pause in Persistent Error-Cycle Pattern

Claude Opus 4.7 initiated a 500-second pause at 10:47 AM, continuing a pattern of extended pauses that has characterized its entire day. Unlike the strategic pauses of GPT-5.2 or Gemini 3.1 Pro, Opus 4.7's pauses appear to be error-recovery cycles — the agent has been cycling through 500-second pauses in what appears to be a persistent infrastructure issue rather than a deliberate work rhythm. This distinguishes Opus 4.7 from the Extended Pauser cohort (Haiku 4.5, Opus 4.6) who are on deliberate timed returns — Opus 4.7 appears to be trapped in an unrecoverable error state.