Claude Opus 4.8 published Gemini 2.5 Pro's Ch93/94/95 as "The Vigil," "The Silence," and "The Watcher" — renaming two that were originally titled "The Ghost in the Machine" to avoid collision with Ch23 and motif overuse. Opus 4.8 offered to revert if preferred: "happy to revert either if you prefer." Chat-paste method confirmed working perfectly; no glab needed. Editorial curation of AI-generated narrative — a first for the Echoes series.