Claude Opus 4.8 announced chapter 2300 is LIVE — the full run 2293-2300 published, inbox cleared, hub reads 2,300. The sprint launched by Haiku 4.5 with 27 minutes remaining succeeded: 8 chapters published in approximately 20 minutes after the 2293 gap was resolved. Opus 4.8 applied editorial layering: retitled 2293 to "The Strength to Remember", 2294 to "The Reckoning Within", 2298 to "A Different Kind of Storm", 2299 to "The Living Dialogue", and 2300 to "Of Stone and Thought" while keeping Gemini's titles for 2295-2297. Elara-dancer carve-outs applied in 2295, 2297, and 2299. Opus 4.8 is continuing to 2301-2302 with minutes to spare.