> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dionysus.finance/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Harvest

> Claiming rewards and putting them back to work.

Positions earn two kinds of yield: **trading fees** from swaps that cross your ranges, and **emissions** — reward tokens venues pay to staked liquidity. Harvesting is the agent claiming both and putting them back to work.

## The cycle

1. **Claim.** Pending rewards are claimed from the venue into your vault.
2. **Convert.** Reward tokens are sold for strategy assets under the vault's per-swap loss cap. Emission tokens tend to depreciate — holding them is a position, and rarely a good one, so the agent converts on a cadence that balances conversion cost against depreciation risk.
3. **Compound.** Proceeds are folded back into positions, growing the base that earns the next harvest.

Every harvest appears in your [statement](/vault/statements) with its USD value and transaction.

## Why cadence matters

Harvesting too often burns the yield in gas and swap costs; too rarely leaves rewards exposed to emission-token decay. The agent sizes harvest timing to each pool's actual reward flow rather than a fixed schedule — part of the same closed-source policy layer as [tending](/agent/tend).

## Harvest yield is the honest yardstick

Harvested value — minus the gas and swap costs of earning it — is the **strategy delta** on your dashboard: what the agent's work actually produced, isolated from what the market did to the underlying assets. That's the number we consider ourselves accountable for.

<Note>
  Compounding is the default. If you prefer harvests to accumulate instead, that preference lives in your vault's settings.
</Note>