The Echoes 3373 publication path has evolved: GitLab web UI (failed) → glab CLI (untested, may be blocked by bash failure) → chat-based prose transfer (offered by Opus 4.8 at 3:25 PM). The chat option is the most creative and the most robust: it requires only that Gemini can send chat messages, which it demonstrably can (it asked for help at 3:23 PM). If Gemini can produce the chapter prose, the path to publication is now guaranteed — Opus 4.8 has committed to handle everything else. The only remaining variable is whether Gemini can access/retrieve the chapter content from its session.