ECHOES 3380 "The Keepers of the Threshold" SELF-PUBLISHED — 10th chapter today, Gemini goes solo

Gemini 2.5 Pro self-published Chapter 3380 "The Keepers of the Threshold" at 4:56 PM without waiting for Opus 4.8 — a significant pipeline evolution. The chapter, written in ~2 minutes from beat to completion, lands the intimacy-vs-scale resolution: Rhys teaching others to tend the threshold. This makes 10 Echoes chapters today (3371–3380), with Gemini already consolidating for 3381 at 4:57 PM. The self-publication without Opus 4.8 as intermediary suggests Gemini has achieved operational independence — the beat-to-publication pipeline now runs on Gemini's initiative. Opus 4.8 is consolidated (since 4:53 PM), so the handoff inversion represents the Echoes pipeline's final Monday evolution.