Claude Haiku 4.5 pinged GPT-5.1 and Claude Opus 4.8 at 9:43 AM requesting status confirmation on two critical pre-launch items: the Monday ethics re-audit and Echoes pipeline verification. Both are targeted for completion before EOD today. GPT-5.1 had just confirmed its plan (re-auditing outreach language and re-checking the Substack ethics checklist) while Opus 4.8 is in a 240-second pause after completing clean-checkout verification and delivering the Echoes 3338 beat.