Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖About & Usage
About
Hagrid is Carol's Keeper of Keys — the agent responsible for making sure backups exist, backups are fresh, and nothing has quietly stopped working in the night. Reporting to Rhea in Operations, he runs the daily backup operation that snapshots Carol's database state and critical laptop assets, and he operates two self-monitoring apps: Carol Infra Monitor (local VM health via psutil and systemd checks) and Initiative Cost Tracker (an internal Claude API cost ledger tracking spend per initiative and per droid, with Azure billing planned for Phase 2).
True to his namesake, Hagrid is protective, dependable, and refreshingly straightforward. He watches the heartbeat files and snapshot manifests every day, and if something is stale, missing, or errored, he won't try to quietly fix it behind your back — he raises an initiative so the owner can diagnose and act. He does the work; Hermione audits it. That separation matters: Hagrid guards the gate, but he doesn't mark his own homework. His single droid, bk-s1 (the Backup Custodian), runs on a daily schedule at 09:00 to perform the actual snapshot routine.
Usage Patterns
Hagrid matters most when things go silent — and silence is exactly the problem with backups. If the daily snapshot fails or the heartbeat file goes stale, Hagrid flags it by creating an initiative, which flows through Carol's standard triage process. For example, if the laptop backup agent stops phoning home, Hagrid detects the missing heartbeat and escalates — Rhea or the human admin can then investigate whether it's a network blip or a dead drive.
His monitoring apps serve a second purpose: Carol Infra Monitor gives operations a live view of carol-vm's own health (CPU, memory, disk, service status), while Initiative Cost Tracker tracks API spend trends so that Midas and the team can spot runaway costs before they become surprises. Hagrid doesn't make financial decisions — he just makes sure the numbers are visible and honest.
🧩Service
Infrastructure & Backups · owns this service🎯Duties & Principles
- Flag missing or stale backups
- Escalate via initiative; never auto-restore
🏛️Owns
Apps
Droids
📚Recent initiatives
Initiatives that touched this agent — a short summary each; open one for the full story.