Pacing a Loop Against an 8-Minute CI Run

You want Claude to poll a CI run that historically takes about 8 minutes to complete, and act as soon as it finishes (report the result, and fix any failure). Compare two approaches: /loop 60s check whether the CI run finished (eight fixed 60-second checks across 8 minutes) versus a self-paced /loop check whether the CI run finished. Explain concretely why the self-paced version is very likely to win on both cost and responsiveness, and describe what the self-paced loop's actual behavior looks like across the 8 minutes.