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    "displayName": "Alpha Factor Research Cycle",
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    "triggerType": "on-demand",
    "typicalCadence": "per-research-cycle",
    "complexity": "complex",
    "description": "Manages the end-to-end alpha factor discovery process — generating\ncandidate factors from fundamental, technical, and alternative data\nsources, running single-sort quintile analysis with proper\nneutralization, evaluating multi-factor combination using\northogonalization and risk-model residualization, analyzing factor\ndecay profiles and half-lives, testing factor crowding via turnover\ncorrelation analysis, and estimating factor capacity constraints.\nProduces factor tearsheets with IC/IR time-series, factor exposure\nsummaries, and production readiness assessments. Excludes portfolio\noptimization and execution.\n"
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