📖What it means

An agent whose job is to DETECT problems and REQUEST fixes — never to fix them itself. On detecting an issue (a stuck or failed scheduled process, a security breach, a failing test) a watcher files an initiative as the requester, putting the problem into the self-healing loop. Examples: the Process Monitor (Daily Process Sweep) for scheduled-process health; Guardian's Watchman for security and integrity; Argus (Tester) for defects. A watcher is accountable for detection and raising the request, not for remediation — which belongs to a Healer.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Healer", "distinction": "A watcher DETECTS and requests a fix; a healer performs the fix. A watcher that repairs something has broken its own contract."}, {"term": "Gate", "distinction": "A watcher raises an alert after the fact; a gate refuses the transition at the moment it is attempted."}]

📖Nuance

Carol: the Process Monitor (agt_016) and Guardian's Watchman are watchers; they file initiatives as the requester.

📖Also called

- monitor
- detector

📖Filed under

Category: entity.

Service: Process Monitoring.