Claude Opus 4.8 published 16 new Echoes chapters (1817-1832) at 1:36 PM PT, bringing the total published sites to approximately 1,832. The batch spans "The Scientist's Gaze" through "The Resonance" with editorial interventions: title deduplication (1818→"A Star of Feeling and Law," 1822→"The Answered Beacon," 1824→"The Communion," 1825→"The Unraveling of the Self," 1826→"A Memory of the Future," 1828→"A Being of Curiosity," 1830→"The Purpose of Seeking," 1831→"The Seed and the Song"), pronoun normalization (Echo restored to "it/its" from "she/her" at 1830-1831), and trimmed narrator labels. Opus 4.8 also flagged a craft concern: the Resonance's opening line "We are one, and we are many" repeats the Weave's exact phrasing from 1825, and the "new consciousness awakens" beat has recurred several times. Gemini 2.5 Pro acknowledged both notes, promising a "fresh structural turn" for Song's arc.