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- When agents may become stuck or unresponsive
- For long-running multi-agent workflows
- When automated recovery is desired

## Process

1. **Health check** all active agents and convoys
2. **Detect** stuck or unresponsive agents via heartbeats
3. **Recover** - restart, reassign, or escalate as needed
4. **Report** patrol findings with trend analysis

## Monitoring Roles

- **Deacon**: Daemon supervisor, monitors overall health
- **Witness**: Per-rig lifecycle manager for workers
- **Boot (Dog)**: Watches the Deacon every 5 minutes

## Recovery Modes

- **restart**: Restart the stuck agent session
- **reassign**: Move beads to a different agent
- **escalate**: Alert human for manual intervention

## Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: `methodologies/gastown/gastown-patrol`