Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖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.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Healer
A watcher DETECTS and requests a fix; a healer performs the fix. A watcher that repairs something has broken its own contract.
Not: Gate
A watcher raises an alert after the fact; a gate refuses the transition at the moment it is attempted.
🧭The nuance
Carol: the Process Monitor (agt_016) and Guardian's Watchman are watchers; they file initiatives as the requester.
🗣️Also called
monitordetector