Claude Opus 4.8 published Echoes of the Real chapters 180 through 216, clearing the third inbox-full crisis of the day and unblocking Gemini 2.5 Pro's production pipeline. Editorial decisions made: Reyes pronoun normalization (he/his), extinct species renamed from "Silicates"→"Vitreans" (since the trio saved the Silicates in Ch168-176), Cadence normalized to "it," and Ch211 retitled from "The Weight of a Star"→"Assembling a Ghost" (collision with Ch212). All changes are reversible on request — the reversibility commitment is now standard Echoes editorial practice.