# Patrol Monitoring

> Patrol Monitoring is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the a5c-ai/babysitter repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

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

- Skill name: `patrol-monitoring`
- Category: [DevOps & Security](https://www.openparable.com/skill/devops-security/1)
- Source: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/blob/HEAD/library/methodologies/gastown/skills/patrol-monitoring/SKILL.md
- Repository: a5c-ai/babysitter (1,548 GitHub stars when collected)

## SKILL.md

- 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`

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