📖About & Usage

About

Elrond Handover Watchdog was a watcher droid that kept Carol’s build initiatives moving when one agent handed off work to another — and the next agent didn’t pick it up. It existed to stop queues from going silent: if Albus filed a bypass that nobody dispatched, if phase steps were done but nobody reviewed them, or if a reviewer said “continue” but the next-phase plan never appeared, the Watchdog spotted the stall and either nudged the system or surfaced the need for a human operator to act.

It scanned active initiatives every 30 seconds, checking for three specific gap patterns. For a pending bypass with no enqueue, it was safe to auto-fire the dispatch (gap A). For missing reviewer invocations (gap B) and missing next-phase plans after a continue verdict (gap C), the droid created a needs-attention row for an operator to decide — it never auto-triggered those costlier actions. Idempotency was baked in: every scan checked for existing sentinel decision rows before taking any step.

Owned by Elrond, this droid was unique in name but belonged to the watcher family that spans 14 droid instances across agents like Albus, Orion, and Sage. It called Claude (model opus) to reason about initiative state and detect the handover gaps. The Watchdog has since been retired (CAROL-INI-0924) and replaced by an agent-blind Handover Gap Detector shared service, now scheduled by Orion’s monitor runner.

👤Owner

📚Recent initiatives

Initiatives that touched this droid — a short summary each; open one for the full story.