patrol-monitoring
SkillMonitoring & opsLets your agent watch other agents for stalls or hangs and automatically recover them when stuck.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the patrol-monitoring skill
About this capability
Continuous monitoring using Deacon/Witness patterns for agent health checks, stuck detection, and automated recovery.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/gastown/skills/patrol-monitoring/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
- When agents may become stuck or unresponsive
- For long-running multi-agent workflows
- When automated recovery is desired
Process
- Health check all active agents and convoys
- Detect stuck or unresponsive agents via heartbeats
- Recover - restart, reassign, or escalate as needed
- 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
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 2k
- Forks
- 106
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
patrol-monitoring- Source
- github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter