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Tune Cadence by zauberzeug — Agent Skill

Name: Tune Cadence
Author: zauberzeug

Tune Cadence

Query or change how often this repo's autonomous GitHub Actions run (pull-card, audit-deck, refine-deck). AUTO-INVOKE when the user asks what the current cadence is, how often pull-card/audit/refine run, to speed up or slow down the deck, to run pull-card every N hours, to change the autonomous cadence, or to retune the workflows. Repo-local dev skill that wraps scripts/set_cadence.py; not a packaged goc skill.

zauberzeug Updated Sep 17, 2026

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Tune the autonomous workflow cadence

This repo drives three autonomous agents from GitHub Actions:

pull-card (.github/workflows/pull-card.yml) — drains the queue.
audit-deck (.github/workflows/audit-deck.yml) — files one new card per run.
refine-deck (.github/workflows/refine-deck.yml) — one deck-hygiene pass per run.

Their schedules are GitHub Actions cron: literals, which can't read a config file. scripts/set_cadence.py rewrites those literals (and the managed # cadence: comment beside each) from a small interval spec, so this skill is just a thin wrapper around it.

Query the current cadence

python3 scripts/set_cadence.py --show

Prints each workflow's cron plus its human-readable interval.

Change the cadence

python3 scripts/set_cadence.py --pull 1h --audit 3h --refine 3h

Pass only the workflows you want to change; omit the rest to leave them.
Interval specs: <N>h where N divides 24 (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12) or 24h; <N>d for every-N-days; and 1w for exact weekly. Note Nd (N≥2) becomes a day-of-month */N cron step that realigns each month, so it's "roughly every N days" — the gap across a month boundary is shorter. 1w is exact (day-of-week, every Monday); there is no clean cron for every-N-days or every-N-weeks.
An optional +P hour-phase suffix shifts a schedule by whole hours — use it to keep two workflows on the same interval a full hour apart (the minute offsets below only separate them within an hour slot). 3h+1 fires at 01:xx, 04:xx, … instead of 00:xx, 03:xx, …. For Nh (N≥2) the phase must be < N; for 24h/Nd/1w it sets the hour-of-day (0–23); 1h takes no phase.
Minute offsets are fixed (pull :13, audit :15, refine :45) so the three deck-mutating agents never launch on the same minute and race on main.

Make it take effect

Scheduled workflows run from the default branch, so a cadence change does nothing until it is committed and pushed to main:

git add .github/workflows/pull-card.yml \
        .github/workflows/audit-deck.yml \
        .github/workflows/refine-deck.yml
git commit -m "ci: retune autonomous cadence"
git push

Follow AGENTS.md "Parallel-Agent Commit Safety" — stage explicit paths, verify git diff --cached, commit with a pathspec.

Cost note

Each run of any of these workflows is a full Opus agent under bypassPermissions. Faster cadence means more token spend; dial it back toward daily when spare-token headroom is tight. The cap on pull-card's per-tick self-trigger chain is separate — it lives in MAX_ITERATIONS inside pull-card.yml, not here.

---name: tune-cadencedescription: Query or change how often this repo's autonomous GitHub Actions run (pull-card, audit-deck, refine-deck). AUTO-INVOKE when the user asks what the current cadence is, how often pull-card/audit/refine run, to speed up or slow down the deck, to run pull-card every N hours, to change the autonomous cadence, or to retune the workflows. Repo-local dev skill that wraps scripts/set_cadence.py; not a packaged goc skill.---# Tune the autonomous workflow cadenceThis repo drives three autonomous agents from GitHub Actions:- **pull-card** (`.github/workflows/pull-card.yml`) — drains the queue.- **audit-deck** (`.github/workflows/audit-deck.yml`) — files one new card per run.- **refine-deck** (`.github/workflows/refine-deck.yml`) — one deck-hygiene pass per run.Their schedules are GitHub Actions `cron:` literals, which can't read aconfig file. `scripts/set_cadence.py` rewrites those literals (and themanaged `# cadence:` comment beside each) from a small interval spec, sothis skill is just a thin wrapper around it.## Query the current cadence```bashpython3 scripts/set_cadence.py --show```Prints each workflow's cron plus its human-readable interval.## Change the cadence```bashpython3 scripts/set_cadence.py --pull 1h --audit 3h --refine 3h```- Pass only the workflows you want to change; omit the rest to leave them.- Interval specs: `<N>h` where N divides 24 (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12) or `24h`; `<N>d` for every-N-days; and `1w` for exact weekly. Note `Nd` (N≥2) becomes a day-of-month `*/N` cron step that realigns each month, so it's "roughly every N days" — the gap across a month boundary is shorter. `1w` is exact (day-of-week, every Monday); there is no clean cron for every-N-days or every-N-weeks.- An optional `+P` hour-phase suffix shifts a schedule by whole hours — use it to keep two workflows on the *same* interval a full hour apart (the minute offsets below only separate them within an hour slot). `3h+1` fires at 01:xx, 04:xx, … instead of 00:xx, 03:xx, …. For `Nh` (N≥2) the phase must be < N; for `24h`/`Nd`/`1w` it sets the hour-of-day (0–23); `1h` takes no phase.- Minute offsets are fixed (pull `:13`, audit `:15`, refine `:45`) so the three deck-mutating agents never launch on the same minute and race on `main`.## Make it take effectScheduled workflows run from the **default branch**, so a cadence changedoes nothing until it is committed and pushed to `main`:```bashgit add .github/workflows/pull-card.yml \ .github/workflows/audit-deck.yml \ .github/workflows/refine-deck.ymlgit commit -m "ci: retune autonomous cadence"git push```Follow AGENTS.md "Parallel-Agent Commit Safety" — stage explicit paths,verify `git diff --cached`, commit with a pathspec.## Cost noteEach run of any of these workflows is a full Opus agent under`bypassPermissions`. Faster cadence means more token spend; dial it backtoward daily when spare-token headroom is tight. The cap on pull-card'sper-tick self-trigger chain is separate — it lives in `MAX_ITERATIONS`inside `pull-card.yml`, not here.

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