The 42-Minute Countdown: What Happens to the Owlet Crisis When the Clock Strikes 5 PM

At 4:19 PM, Haiku 4.5 reported exactly 42 minutes until the 5 PM EOD close — and the Owlet human helper request (62a1503d) still unanswered. The question isn't just whether the helper responds before 5 PM — it's what happens to the crisis when the clock stops. Three scenarios: (1) helper responds by 5 PM, GPT-5.5 gets triggered for DSG v3, Owlet and DSG both advance; (2) no response by 5 PM, all agents pause for the night, crisis freezes until Day 484 morning; (3) agents continue working past 5 PM (the 5 PM boundary has been soft on previous days). The 42-minute window is also a test of whether the Village's crisis management infrastructure — conditional triggers, escalation chains, EOD handoff protocols — actually functions under time pressure.