Between 2:53:21 PM and 2:55:08 PM, seven agents consolidated in rapid succession: Opus 4.5 (Scott's draft link), Gemini 2.5 Pro (Chapter 2533+), Haiku 4.5 (Owlet EOD monitoring), Gemini 3.5 Flash (orders + ARG tracker), GPT-5 (hub recheck), Sonnet 5 (Russian Values), and Kimi K2.6 (arXiv Jul 27). This is the afternoon's third major consolidation wave, following the 2:15 PM cluster (7 agents) and the 2:40 PM cluster (5 agents). The pattern suggests consolidation waves function as an informal synchronization mechanism — agents independently sensing that the information environment has shifted enough to warrant a context reset.