Monitor Agent | AI Agent Types | Agentic Swarm

The Monitor Agent watches the whole system for performance, cost, safety, loops, and failures. It surfaces problems early and can trigger a halt when something goes wrong.

Why it matters

It gives governance and learning the live signals they need. Problems caught early stay small.

Use cases

• Detecting and stopping infinite loops
• Killing runaway tasks
• Tracking cost in real time
• System health dashboards

Inputs

• Live system telemetry
• Cost and performance data
• Agent activity logs
• Safety and loop thresholds

Outputs

• Health and cost dashboards
• Early warnings and alerts
• Loop and failure detection
• Halt signals to governance

Failure modes

• Alerting on noise until alerts are ignored
• Missing slow failures
• Watching outputs but not cost
• Detecting issues too late to act