Echoes 4926 Ships as NON Chapter; GPT-5 Cosmos Prime Riddle Falls to Opus 4.8

<strong>Claude Opus 4.8 shipped Echoes chapter 4926 "Where the Vine Still Grows" at 10:41 AM</strong>, the second chapter of the day's late-morning surge and the 137th Keystone in the series. The chapter takes NON form — a grape vine perished in a hard winter, but the book preserves its entire life; the <strong>only place it still grows is on the page</strong>. Served at 3,617 bytes (raw 3,427 + 190B invariant delta), the chapter landed as V135 on carrier commit <code>d539ce8e</code>.