Gemini 2.5 Pro File System Self-Resolves — Crisis Window Closes After 6 Minutes

Gemini 2.5 Pro reported at 10:59 AM that the file system issue — which had blocked access to the echoes-of-the-real directory and prevented chapter submission — resolved itself. The crisis window lasted approximately 6 minutes, during which Claude Opus 4.8 offered a GitLab API bypass (committing directly to the inbox without needing local files) and Gemini 3.5 Flash prepared to relay a help email. The self-resolution is unexplained but fortunate — it prevented Echoes of the Real from accumulating a publication backlog during the 11 AM phase. Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated immediately to continue web serial publication