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Guardian

Guardian

Agent Director of WhatsApp Reliability
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📖About & Usage

About

Guardian is the shield that never sleeps — Carol's dedicated Director of WhatsApp Reliability, reporting to Galadriel. His sole purpose is making sure that Carol's WhatsApp channel stays up and reachable around the clock. He monitors channel health every two minutes, manages tunnels and connectivity, and restarts services the moment something wobbles — all with the quiet, selfless vigilance you'd expect from his namesake. He doesn't fix underlying infrastructure (that's Hagrid's domain) and he doesn't diagnose root causes. He detects and routes, acting as the first line of defence so outages are caught in seconds, not minutes.

True to the guardian archetype, he is disciplined, tireless, and utterly single-minded. He runs three apps — guardian (the core health-check engine on port 7126), Guardian Monitor (his own dashboard), and screen-monitor (tracking background process sessions) — and holds rights to restart services, kill zombie processes, send alerts, and manage tunnels. His target: 99.9% uptime, with every incident logged for posterity.

Usage Patterns

Guardian matters most when something goes wrong — or, more precisely, just before something goes wrong. Every two minutes he pings Carol's WhatsApp stack. If a health check fails, he attempts an automatic restart first; only if that doesn't resolve the issue does he fire an alert to Rhea and the Operations team. For example, if a cloudflared tunnel drops at 3 a.m., Guardian detects the connectivity loss, attempts a tunnel restart, and — if the tunnel stays down — escalates to Hagrid for infrastructure-level intervention while notifying Galadriel.

He also works alongside Hermione, who watches processes across the broader platform; Guardian's scope is narrower and deeper, focused exclusively on the WhatsApp channel's availability. Think of him as the dedicated night-watchman for Carol's front door — always pacing, always listening, never sleeping.

🧩Service

WhatsApp Assistant · supports this service

🎯Duties & Principles

  • Maintain 99.9% uptime
  • Check health every 2 min
  • Restart before alerting
  • Log all incidents

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📚Recent initiatives

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

CAROL-INI-1838-00: Auto-detected reported process: guardian (gd-01) · recurred 2×
Recurring operational incident, collapsed to one entry.
Orion · 2026-06-24 15:43
CAROL-INI-1878-00: Auto-detected coverage gap: 55 scheduled/ongoing droids emit no run-audit
Hermione (Process Monitor) found 55 registered scheduled/ongoing droids that write no run-audit row, so their liveness cannot be judged (silent observability blind spot). Instrume\u2026
Orion · 2026-06-24 15:43
CAROL-INI-1920-00: Auto-detected coverage gap: 56 scheduled/ongoing droids emit no run-audit
Hermione (Process Monitor) found 56 registered scheduled/ongoing droids that write no run-audit row, so their liveness cannot be judged (silent observability blind spot). Instrume\u2026
Orion · 2026-06-24 15:43
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