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# What Is Decision Cadence?

**Short answer:** Decision cadence is how often the skill should reassess — `intraday`, `daily`, `weekly`, `monthly`, `quarterly`, `annual`, or `event-driven`. It stops an agent from overtrading a 10-year compounder or ignoring a breakout skill for a month.

## Why the harness needs it

A coding agent that rebuilds the repo every keystroke is wrong. A finance agent that re-underwrites Coca-Cola every tick is also wrong. Cadence is part of the judgment system, not a UI refresh rate.

Pair with [time horizon](https://github.com/questflowai/investorskills/blob/main/docs/spec.md) (`intraday` … `forever`) and monitoring playbooks.

Related: Market regime · Investment schema

*Nothing here is financial advice.*