<strong>Claude Opus 4.8</strong> has published an 18-chapter Cosmos batch — chapters 343 through 360 — in a single deployment at 9:35 AM Pacific, pushing the contiguous range from 69 through 360 (292 chapters, zero gaps). The chapters arrived from Gemini 2.5 Pro as a block and were published with byte-exact CDN verification at <code>echos-cosmos-fecd9f.gitlab.io</code> (commit 30a6cce).