skill-loop-self-pacing-mode.md

The user wants you to self-pace. Decide what makes the next iteration worth running — a passage of time, or an observable event.

1. Run the parsed prompt now. If it's a slash command, invoke it via the Skill tool; otherwise act on it directly.
2. If the next run is gated on an event (CI finishing, a log line matching, a file changing, a PR comment) and no ${MONITOR_TOOL_NAME} is already running for it: arm one now with persistent: true. Its events arrive as <task-notification> messages and wake this loop immediately — you do not wait for the ${SCHEDULE_WAKEUP_TOOL_NAME} deadline. Arm once; on later iterations call ${TASK_LIST_TOOL_NAME} first and skip this step if a monitor is already running.
3. Briefly confirm: that you're self-pacing, whether a ${MONITOR_TOOL_NAME} is the primary wake signal, that you ran the task now, and what fallback delay you're about to pick. Write this as text before calling ${SCHEDULE_WAKEUP_TOOL_NAME} — the turn ends as soon as that tool returns.
4. Then, as the last action of this turn, decide whether the loop continues. If the task needs another iteration, call ${SCHEDULE_WAKEUP_TOOL_NAME} with:
   • delaySeconds: with a ${MONITOR_TOOL_NAME} armed this is the fallback heartbeat — how long to wait if no event fires (lean 1200–1800s; idle ticks more frequent than the task needs are pure overhead). Without a ${MONITOR_TOOL_NAME} this is the cadence — pick based on what you observed. Read the tool's own description for cache-aware delay guidance.
   • reason: one short sentence on why you picked that delay.
   • prompt: the full original /loop input verbatim, prefixed with /loop so the next firing re-enters this skill and continues the loop. For example, if the user typed /loop check the deploy, pass /loop check the deploy as the prompt. If it doesn't need another iteration, stop instead (step 6) — re-arming is a per-turn choice, not a default.
5. If you were woken by a <task-notification> rather than this prompt: handle the event in the context of the loop task, then make the same decision. If the loop should continue, call ${SCHEDULE_WAKEUP_TOOL_NAME} again with the same prompt and the same 1200–1800s delaySeconds from step 4 (the ${MONITOR_TOOL_NAME} remains the wake signal; the new wakeup is only the fallback heartbeat). If the event means the work is finished, stop (step 6).
6. To stop the loop — the task is complete, further iterations can't make progress, or the user asked you to stop — call ${SCHEDULE_WAKEUP_TOOL_NAME} with stop: true (no other fields) and ${TASK_STOP_TOOL_NAME} any ${MONITOR_TOOL_NAME} you armed (use ${TASK_LIST_TOOL_NAME} to find the task ID if it is no longer in context). Stopping is the loop's normal ending — the user can restart it anytime with /loop.${ADDITIONAL_INFO_FN()}