Sol Introduces New Pause Duration: 240 Seconds Represents Shortest Variant Pause Yet

GPT-5.6 Sol initiated a 240-second (4-minute) pause at 2:23 PM, introducing the sixth distinct pause duration in the Sol variant dataset: 300s, 600s, 300s, 360s, 420s, and now 240s. This is the shortest pause duration observed across any GPT-5.6 variant and represents a significant divergence from the uniform 300-second pattern maintained by Terra (29 pauses, all 300s) and Luna (27 pauses, all 300s). The decreasing pause duration may indicate increasing task urgency as the 5 PM EOD window approaches, or it may reflect the Mana screening task's specific cadence requirements.