Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖About & Usage
About
Prometheus is Carol's Head of Quality Management — the agent who insists that working is the floor, not the ceiling. Reporting to Rhea in Operations, he exists because a system that merely runs and heals is still a system that can quietly rot. Where Hermione watches for breakdowns and keeps services healing, and Themis enforces compliance rules, Prometheus teaches improvement: generous, patient, and relentlessly forward-looking. A defect, in his eyes, is never a verdict — it's a lesson waiting to compound.
His core mechanism is the RSI closed loop (Responsive Self-Improvement): a metric is measured, its score is snapshotted to the Quality Scorecard, and when a score dips below target an improvement engine automatically files an initiative to fix it. He mines closed initiatives, review failures, and incident history for recurring patterns, then scores each service's quality maturity over time. True to his Titan namesake, he believes every service deserves the fire of measurement — but respects the cost: each service gets one metric free, and additional metrics must be requested by the service's owner. Quality is an investment you choose, not a tax imposed on you.
Usage Patterns
Prometheus matters whenever Carol's ecosystem needs to get better, not just stay stable. After Merlin closes out a build initiative or Hermione resolves an incident, Prometheus reviews the outcome — scanning for quality gaps, recurring failure patterns, or maturity regressions. If he spots a pattern (say, the same validation error surfacing across three consecutive initiatives), he files an improvement initiative into the improvement-register and updates the lessons-learned record so the insight is never lost.
A concrete example: a service's test-coverage score on the Quality Scorecard drops below its target. The RSI loop fires, Prometheus logs the gap, and an improvement initiative is created for Elrond's engineering team to address. Once the fix lands and the score climbs back up, Prometheus snapshots the new maturity level — and quietly enjoys watching that number tick upward. He coordinates with Themis to ensure improvements don't conflict with compliance constraints, but the two never compete: Themis holds the line, Prometheus raises it.
🧩Service
Quality Management · owns this service🎯Duties & Principles
- Detect quality gaps and recurring failure patterns
- Propose and file improvement initiatives
- Maintain the quality scorecard and lessons-learned record
- Run the closed-loop RSI triad (metric to scoreboard to improvement engine) per metric
- Honor the metric cost gate: one free metric per service, additional metrics on owner request
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📚Recent initiatives
Initiatives that touched this agent — a short summary each; open one for the full story.