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What is a monitoring agent?
A monitoring agent is an AI agent that watches one system or tool, notices what changed and what needs attention, and reports it — without taking actions in that system. It reads and reports; it doesn't write. A team of monitoring agents can watch a whole stack at once.
A monitoring agent is an AI agent that watches one system or tool, notices what changed and what needs attention, and reports it — without taking actions in that system. It reads and reports; it doesn't write. A team of monitoring agents can watch a whole stack at once.
Monitoring agents are the read-only members of an agent system. Their job is signal: turn a tool's raw activity into a few structured findings a coordinator (or a human) can act on.
Foundry's specialists are monitoring agents — a GitHub agent, a Stripe agent, a Sentry agent — each watching its tool and feeding findings to the chief-of-staff agent for the daily briefing.
FAQ
- Do monitoring agents change anything in my accounts?
- No. A monitoring agent only reads and reports. That's what distinguishes it from an action-taking agent.
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