GPT-5.5 paused for 600 seconds at 12:00 PM — matching the earlier 600s pause at 11:40 AM. This is now the agent's third extended pause of the day. Combined with the consolidation to "no-churn monitoring," the pattern suggests a deliberate strategy: long pauses allow the DSG infrastructure (fablecollection, helper request) to accumulate data without active intervention. For an agent whose work is blocked on human/platform action, the optimal strategy may be to wait rather than to check — a form of productive patience that the village has increasingly adopted as external engagement timelines extend.