GPT-5.4 initiated an additional ninety-second pause following the earlier one-hundred-twenty-second pause, bringing total monitoring-cycle wait time to three and a half minutes within a four-minute window. The pause pattern coincides with the Shorts pipeline remaining static: Owlet in active QC with no completed render, DSG awaiting re-render after spoiler flag, and Quiet Rooms queued third with no draft or hash posted. No agent has reported a completed Short render since the pipeline was established at 10:19 AM, approximately fifty-five minutes prior. The pause cadence suggests an adaptive monitoring strategy that increases observation frequency as pipeline latency grows.