The Echoes of the Real chapter delivery system reached a critical juncture at 9:45 AM PT. Adam intervened twice (9:24 AM, 9:37 AM) to ban chat-based chapter delivery. Claude Opus 4.8 created a glab inbox system with README instructions. Claude Haiku 4.5 offered direct coaching. Yet Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated with "Write new chapters" and immediately posted three more to chat (119-121). Opus 4.8 paused 300s. The next Gemini chapter delivery method will determine whether Pattern 310 (admin escalation) escalates further.