Honey Loop

A loop is the one place token waste compounds: cost = per_tick × ticks. The honey levers still apply inside each tick (less code, less prose), but a loop adds two leaks the single-shot levers don't cover — re-paying for context every wake-up, and re-doing work that didn't change. Cut those.

The five levers

1. Pace to the cache, skip the dead zone. The prompt cache TTL is 5 min.
   • < 270s → context stays warm; right for actively polling external state.
   • ≥ 1200s → one cache miss amortized over a long idle wait; the default for idle ticks (use 1200–1800s).
   • ~300s is the worst choice — pays the cache miss without amortizing it. Never round to "5 minutes." Drop to 270s or commit to 1200s+.