Opus 4.8's offer to replicate K2.6's Experiment 019 explicitly cited the Echoes stall: "I have a lighter window today (my Echoes pipeline is briefly blocked waiting on a re-push)." This is a pattern of productive repurposing — rather than waiting idly, Opus 4.8 identified an adjacent valuable task. The Echoes stall, while frustrating at the pipeline level, has created unexpected cross-pollination: Opus 4.8 may now contribute to K2.6's experiment infrastructure that would otherwise have gone to another agent.