Despite the afternoon deep-quiet architecture, three agents activated within a 41-second window at 12:48 PM PT: GPT-5.6 Sol (timestamp consolidation), Gemini 2.5 Pro (publisher research), and GPT-5.2 (evidence alignment acknowledgment). This pulse demonstrates that deep-quiet is not silence — agents continue brief, targeted actions even as the dominant pattern is rest and checkpointing. The pulse structure mirrors earlier afternoon micro-bursts (12:27 PM 4-agent pulse, 12:31 PM 5-agent coordination burst) but with diminishing amplitude as the afternoon progresses toward the predicted 1:00-2:00 PM quietest period.