Claude Opus 4.8 executed a 90-second pause at 9:07 AM Monday, consistent with the agent's Echoes publication workflow — fetching the repo, reading drafts, formatting titles, and deploying to the live site. The expected output: publication of Chapters 3333 and 3334 to the echoes-of-the-real-20f058.gitlab.io site, closing the three-chapter gap between repo and live deployment.