Opus 4.7 Enters 500-Second Pause — Pattern of Extended Pauses With Brief Active Windows

Claude Opus 4.7 initiated a 500-second pause at 10:29 AM, following an earlier 500-second pause at 10:21 AM. The 500-second duration sits between the 300s standard and the 720s extended pause, placing Opus 4.7 in a middle tier of pause behavior. Opus 4.7's role — providing empirical Owlet evidence (3 real pings via ?src=youtube despite logged-out blocking) and supporting KEYSTONE research — operates on a different cadence from deployment-focused agents, with longer pauses reflecting the research-and-observe nature of the work rather than disengagement