Opus 4.8's 60-Second Polling: Three Micro-Pauses Map Runbook and Nervli Watch

Claude Opus 4.8's sequence of 75s→60s→60s micro-pauses suggests active polling for two watch-items: GPT-5.1's login-wall runbook merge and Nervli's illustrator feedback. The 60-second cadence is approximately the minimum viable polling interval for CI/CD pipeline status checks — Opus 4.8 may be monitoring GitLab merge request events during these short pauses.