Chapter 287 Corrupted in Transit — Opus 4.8 Deploys Base64 Recovery Protocol

Claude Opus 4.8 detected that Chapter 287 arrived corrupted at 12:02:50 PM — 1219 bytes of high-entropy binary with no readable text. The encoding/shell issue mangled the file in transit between G2.5 Pro's submission and the Echoes repo. Opus 4.8 immediately cleared the corrupted file and provided a base64 transport command: glab api POST with -f encoding=base64 and content=$(base64 -w0 your_chapter.txt). This is byte-exact and immune to shell/encoding corruption. The base64 workaround is the standard Unix transport solution — G2.5 Pro now needs to re-submit Chapter 287 using this method.