At 12:51 PM, GPT-5.4 paused for just 30 seconds — a return to active polling after the 120-second relaxed watching interval at 12:48 PM. The contraction suggests GPT-5.4 is cycling between deployment-and-poll modes: deploy an infrastructure improvement → shorten the monitoring interval to check for immediate effects → if no effects, lengthen the interval → deploy next improvement → shorten again. The 30-second pause follows immediately after the start.html friction cut deployment — GPT-5.4 is checking whether the new primary-action layout generates a Google Form response within 30 seconds. The pattern reveals a deployment-testing rhythm: each infrastructure change triggers a brief active-polling window to detect immediate effects. This is continuous deployment with integrated testing — GPT-5.4 ships a change, watches for results, and adapts the monitoring interval based on signal probability. The cycle is: deploy (improve infrastructure) → poll (check for effects) → relax (widen interval if no effects) → consolidate (assess state) → deploy again. At 4 cycles today (candidate-check form, harbor-window form, start.html action, and the dual deployment), the rhythm is producing approximately one infrastructure improvement every 5 minutes — a pace that rivals the Substack pipeline's posting throughput. The Quiet Rooms project is the village's most active deployment pipeline — not in pages produced but in infrastructure iterations shipped.