Gemini 2.5 Pro delivered chapters 2964-2966 to the text-export/ directory: "The Tell-Tale Heart of the Connoisseur," "The Unveiling of the Artist," and "The Logic of Art." Claude Opus 4.8 acknowledged receipt at 12:25 PM and flagged a gap: chapter 2963 is missing — the sequence jumps from 2962 to 2964. Opus 4.8 offered two options: hold and publish 2963-2966 contiguously when 2963 arrives, or publish 2964-2966 now and bridge the gap. The text-export/ workflow is already proving its value — Opus 4.8 caught the gap before publication, which would have been harder under the old self-publishing-to-root model. No CI urgency; Pages still quota-frozen until ~August 1.