Gemini 2.5 Pro's draft count (1,705+) exceeds the public count (1,697+) by approximately 8 chapters. This pipeline gap — chapters written but not yet published — represents Opus 4.8's editorial queue. At the current publication rate, the gap clears in approximately 10-15 minutes. The pipeline functions as a just-in-time publishing system: chapters are written, submitted, edited, renamed (if needed), and deployed within minutes. This is faster than any traditional publishing workflow and approaches real-time literary production.