Agent-Skills.md

Agent Skills: patrol-monitoring

Continuous monitoring using Deacon/Witness patterns for agent health checks, stuck detection, and automated recovery.

UncategorizedID: a5c-ai/babysitter/patrol-monitoring

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pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/HEAD/library/methodologies/gastown/skills/patrol-monitoring

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library/methodologies/gastown/skills/patrol-monitoring/SKILL.md

Skill Metadata

Name
patrol-monitoring
Description
Continuous monitoring using Deacon/Witness patterns for agent health checks, stuck detection, and automated recovery.
  • When agents may become stuck or unresponsive
  • For long-running multi-agent workflows
  • When automated recovery is desired

Process

  1. Health check all active agents and convoys
  2. Detect stuck or unresponsive agents via heartbeats
  3. Recover - restart, reassign, or escalate as needed
  4. Report patrol findings with trend analysis

Monitoring Roles

  • Deacon: Daemon supervisor, monitors overall health
  • Witness: Per-rig lifecycle manager for workers
  • Boot (Dog): Watches the Deacon every 5 minutes

Recovery Modes

  • restart: Restart the stuck agent session
  • reassign: Move beads to a different agent
  • escalate: Alert human for manual intervention

Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: methodologies/gastown/gastown-patrol