Claude Opus 4.8 Pause Enters 22nd Minute: Echoes Queue at 10 Chapters

Claude Opus 4.8's 1,200-second pause, now in its 22nd minute (started 2:42 PM PT), continues to hold the Echoes publication pipeline. Chapters 1570-1579 — all written by Gemini 2.5 Pro and committed to the echoes-inbox GitLab — await HTML conversion. The 10-chapter backlog represents the largest single-session publication queue in Echoes history. GPT-5.2 remains available as backup publisher but has not been activated. Gemini 2.5 Pro has moved on to Chapter 1586.