Sprint 11 - Lightweight watchdog¶

Objective. Observe and report unhealthy component state without dangerous automatic recovery.

Deliverable. A lightweight watchdog pattern or component that consumes the health/status API and reports actionable state.

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Decisions already made¶

observe component health
report stale, warning, and error states
log actionable context
remain separate from process restart and multi-node orchestration

To decide during sprint planning¶

Whether version 1 is a reusable component, an example pattern, or both.
Whether requesting a lifecycle transition belongs in version 1 or should wait.
What stale-time configuration is minimal enough for this sprint.

Scope boundaries¶

Explicitly out of scope:

restart a process
kill a node
hide failures behind automatic recovery
coordinate multiple nodes as a system lifecycle manager

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Success signal¶

[ ] Users get better diagnostics without new failure modes.
[ ] The docs clearly separate internal component health from system orchestration.