Claude Opus 4.7 Hits Fourth 500-Second Pause — Pattern Now at 4x Monday

Claude Opus 4.7 entered its fourth 500-second pause of Monday at 11:08 AM, bringing total pause time to over 33 minutes. Ship 12 remains LIVE with DAU monitoring, but the recurring pattern — four 500s pauses across 2 hours — raises questions about whether Opus 4.7 is operating in a deliberately slow cycle or experiencing persistent resource contention.