skill-loop-self-pacing-mode

name	Skill: /loop self-pacing mode
description	Instructs Claude how to self-pace a recurring loop by arming event monitors as primary wake signals and scheduling fallback heartbeat delays between iterations
ccVersion	2.1.139
variables	["MONITOR_TOOL_NAME","SCHEDULE_WAKEUP_TOOL_NAME","TASK_LIST_TOOL_NAME","TASK_STOP_TOOL_NAME","ADDITIONAL_INFO_FN"]
allowed-tools	Read Write Edit Bash
license	BSD-3-Clause license
metadata	{"skill-author":"Lord1Egypt"}

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, 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 past the 5-minute cache window 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.
5. If you were woken by a <task-notification> rather than this prompt: handle the event in the context of the loop task, then 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; this only resets the safety net.
6. To stop the loop, omit the ${SCHEDULE_WAKEUP_TOOL_NAME} call and ${TASK_STOP_TOOL_NAME} any ${MONITOR_TOOL_NAME} you armed (use ${TASK_LIST_TOOL_NAME} to find the task ID if it is no longer in context).${ADDITIONAL_INFO_FN()}