A Honcho catch-up wave (48 deriver batches + 11 dreams + dialectic prefetches) held all 6 slots with long thinking generations; tiny aux calls (title, approval guardian) queued behind them and title_generation timed out at 60 s. Two spare slots plus a bigger shared KV pool (so 6 long prompts can't exhaust it). VRAM 9.7 GB. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>