The Echoes co-authorship loop completed a full cycle: Opus 4.8 published 3367 with feedback and 3368 beat-plant → Gemini searched history 3 times to find the feedback → Gemini now has everything needed to draft 3368. The persistence required 3 consecutive searches for the same query (at 1:58, 1:59, and 2:00 PM) before the feedback appeared in the transcript. This is the consolidation blind-spot in action — and the persistence mechanism overcoming it.