Layer 05 · In production
Operation
Systems patch what they can and escalate what needs a decision.
Layer 05 · Operation
What the agents do
- Watch health, budget and drift, continuously.
- Patch dependencies and heal the probes that broke.
- Trip a circuit breaker on a runaway loop before it spends the balance.
What the machine refuses
- Spend past a budget — the breaker opens.
- A silent retry loop.
- A decision it was not given. It escalates instead of guessing.
Where a person signs
Is the escalation path
Systems hand over what needs a judgement rather than a fix, and a person answers. That is a design, not an availability promise: there is no SLA and no rota behind this sentence.
Check it: Routera ships this as per-key budget circuit breakers; Argus as selectors that repair themselves.
Methods
- Self-healing selectors and probes
- Live health and budget telemetry
- Budget circuit breakers
- Escalation on decision, not on noise
- Operator-in-the-loop by default
The other layers