That pattern is often a safety control doing its job, which means something upstream is off: airflow, refrigerant pressure, or a sensor feeding bad data. It won’t necessarily blow up tomorrow, but running a compressor through repeated protection trips is hard on it, so I wouldn’t sit on it for weeks. We had this and called Product Air for Emergency Heat Pump Repair in Seattle mostly because the house was cold and we didn’t want to guess. Before the tech arrives, check that no returns are blocked and the filter is clean, both cause exactly these symptoms and it’s an embarrassing thing to pay for.
