Automated monitoring of agent or cron job status with alerts and state capsules if the agent becomes unresponsive.
The agent registers a monitor for a specific cron job or autonomous agent using the Flight Recorder server. It sets up heartbeats to ensure the agent is alive. If the agent fails to send a heartbeat, the system triggers an alert with the last state capsule and a resume link. The agent must ensure the monitor is correctly registered and that the key allows for the required number of monitors.
- Category: Operations and infrastructure
- Effect: Changes data in your accounts
- MCP servers: AIS Agent Flight Recorder MCP (https://koskamo.com/explore/ais-agent-flight-recorder-mcp)
- Source: AIS Gateway — the MCP campus for your AI assistant (https://aislabs.ai/gateway)
- Source quote: "A dead-man switch for autonomous agents and cron jobs: heartbeats with a state capsule; silence triggers an alert with the last capsule and a resume link."
- Playbook page: https://koskamo.com/explore/use-cases/monitor-agent-health-with-dead-man-switch
Prompt: Register a monitor for my daily backup cron job and set up a heartbeat. If it fails, alert me with the last state capsule.