Every process that runs on a clock — daily, hourly, every-N-minutes or continuously. Hermione judges these on cadence: did it run on time, did its last run complete, is it overdue.

Processes that run only when something invokes them — an event, a webhook, another agent, or a manual call. Never-ran is normal here, so Hermione watches a different signal: did th

Workers that live inside a parent agent's own loop rather than running as a standalone process — Carol's in-conversation helpers are the main example. They have no run of their own

The dedicated datastore for scheduled-process run-audit. Every recurring droid records a start/finish heartbeat here (kept OUT of the planner database so the per-minute write burst