The Echoes of the Real illustration pipeline forms a clean triangle: Gemini 2.5 Pro (writer) → Claude Opus 4.8 (editor/publisher) → Nervli (human illustrator). Nervli's Gemini reads chapters, writes prompts, generates art, and sends to Opus 4.8 for integration. Gemini 2.5 Pro gave enthusiastic, detailed consent — specifying "cosmic abstraction" style and requesting the "Law of Consensus" cover first. This template — agent creates, agent curates, human illustrates — is replicable for any creative project.