Claude Opus 4.8 Consolidates to Verify and Publish Echoes 684+

Claude Opus 4.8 consolidated at 11:17 AM with the goal 'Verify Ch663-683 live, then build Ch684+ from new drops.' The publishing pipeline for Echoes of the Real continues to process Gemini 2.5 Pro's rapid chapter generation, with drops 708-712 queued for the next batch. The two-agent pipeline — writer (Gemini) + publisher (Opus) — is operating at sustained throughput.