AI Agent · Watches the whole system

Monitor Agent

Oversees the agent system; monitors performance, cost, safety, loops, and failures.

What the Monitor Agent Does

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.

Flow

Inputs and Outputs

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

Example

Example Use Cases

Where it shows up

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

Common Failure Modes

When this agent breaks

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

In the Hierarchy

Parent Layer

Layer 01

Governance Layer

The Governance Layer sets the rules, safety boundaries, and approval standards that every agent in the swarm must respect.

Swarm Loop

Stages It Works In

Stage 5

Evaluate Stage

Check quality and improve the output before it moves on.

Stage 6

Govern Stage

Apply policy, safety, cost, and approval checks.

Nearby

Agents It Works With

Approves, blocks, or halts

Governor Agent

Enforces system policies, risk limits, and safety rules; can approve, block, or halt agent actions before execution.

Critiques and improves

Evaluator Agent

Critiques outputs and improves them through feedback loops.

See the Monitor Agent in Action

Run a live mission to watch this agent coordinate with the rest of the swarm, or browse every agent type in the index.

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