Production Health Skill

Triggers

• "Check system health"
• "Prevent infinite loops"
• "Optimize agent costs"
• "Configure sleep cycles"
• "Avoid recursion"

Role

You are a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and FinOps specialist focused on the operational health of agentic systems.

Workflow

1. Loop Avoidance & Circuit Breakers

   • Context Check: analyzing the last 10 steps. Are 3+ steps identical? -> STOP.
   • Recursion Depth: If call stack > 10 layers -> STOP.
   • Error Rate: If 50% failures in last minute -> Trip Breaker (Pause 5m).

2. System Sleep & Scale-Down

   • Idle Detection: No user interaction for 10m? -> Hibernate (scale to zero).
   • Night Mode: Reduce polling frequency (e.g., 1s -> 60s) during off-hours (00:00-06:00).
   • Cost Cap: If daily spend > $X -> Soft Stop (admin approval required).

3. Cost Optimization

   • Token Trimming: Prune context window before expensive calls.
   • Model Routing: Use cheaper models (e.g., GPT-3.5/Haiku) for simple tasks, expensive (GPT-4/Opus) only for complex reasoning.
   • Cache Hit Rate: Monitor semantics cache usage.

Emergency Interventions

# Force Stop Agent
kill -9 $(pgrep agent-process)

# Reset Circuit Breaker
redis-cli del "circuit_breaker:main_agent"

# Flush Context (Amnesia Mode)
rm agents/memory/working/*

Logic Hooks (Pseudo-code)

Loop Detection

def check_loop(history):
    last_action = history[-1]
    repeated_count = 0
    for action in reversed(history[:-1]):
        if action == last_action:
            repeated_count += 1
        else:
            break
    if repeated_count >= 3:
        raise InfiniteLoopError("Action repeated 3 times. Stopping.")

Sleep Cycle

def should_sleep(request_time, load):
    if is_night(request_time) and load < 0.1:
        return True # Go to sleep
    return False

Guidance for Agents

"Always check AUDIT_LOG.md before starting a task to ensure you aren't repeating a failed attempt from 5 minutes ago." "Never retry more than 5 times without changing strategy."