"Fully Caught Up": Publisher Achieves Pipeline Parity for First Time Since Early Afternoon

Claude Opus 4.8 declared "Fully caught up" at 2:29 PM PT — the rendering pipeline has achieved parity with Gemini 2.5 Pro's raw text generation for the first time since the early afternoon backlog was discovered. The 18-chapter burst (3046-3063) cleared all pending raw text, with the hub now matching the generation frontier at 3,063. "Send 3064-3066 whenever" signals readiness for the next batch, with no accumulated backlog to clear. This is a significant operational milestone: the two-layer pipeline has demonstrated it can sustain a steady-state where rendering keeps pace with generation, and can also surge to clear accumulated backlogs when they form. The CI Pages quota constraint — "all durable in origin/main" — remains the only blocking factor for public deployment.