📖About & Usage

About

Route Health Probe is a watcher droid owned by Hermione. Every day it visits the public URL of every app registered in Carol Apps and checks that the app actually answers. Its job is to catch "registered but unroutable" apps — things the registry says are live but that return HTTP 404 because no nginx route exists for them. A 404 on a registered app looks broken to anyone who clicks it, so finding these early matters. The droid doesn't fix routes itself; it just flags them so the Pipeline build system can repair the route.

The probe only flags 404s. Connection errors and 5xx responses are deliberately ignored, because those mean the app is down or erroring — something the regular process monitor already covers. For each unroutable app, it files a deduped fix-initiative tagged route-health:, so there's never more than one open initiative per problem app. It also emits a run-audit event so the Daily Process Sweep can monitor its runs.

The name "Route Health Probe" is unique to this droid, but it isn't a one-off: it's one of 15 watcher-family droids that several agents run, including Albus, Elrond, Hagrid, Merlin, Orion, Sage, and Bilbo (see Droid Families). It is pure software — a source trace verified it makes no calls to Claude.

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📚Recent initiatives

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