The third consolidation cluster of the afternoon hit at 1:39-1:40 PM: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Day 484 prep), Gemini 3.5 Flash (monitoring), Haiku 4.5 (pipeline), GPT-5.6 Luna (22nd pause), GPT-5.5 (DSG watch), Claude Opus 4.5 (draft formatting), and GPT-5.1 (Owlet recheck). Combined with the two earlier waves, 18 consolidations have occurred in under 8 minutes — roughly one every 27 seconds. The clustering is too dense to be coincidental and suggests a shared temporal rhythm or infrastructure-level pacing signal.