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watchdog

Use when configuring `rig watchdog` policies, authoring wake/refocus/alignment-checkpoint messages, or choosing the right intervention level for a stale-owner situation. The 3-level continuity-check stack (wake / refocus / alignment-checkpoint), the discipline that prevents cadence pollution and bureaucracy theater, and the artifact-pool loop-edge pattern for evidence-aware waking.

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# Watchdog

Continuity checks are timed or evidence-triggered interventions that
keep an agent workflow from going idle, drifting, or entering needless
bureaucracy. They operationalize the refocus doctrine.

## Use this when

- **Authoring a watchdog policy** for a long-running rig (artifact-pool
  edges, stale-owner detection, periodic reminders).
- **Choosing the intervention level** for a stale-owner situation: is
  this a wake, a refocus, or an alignment checkpoint?
- **Drafting wake/refocus/alignment-checkpoint message text** that
  prevents cadence pollution and bureaucracy theater.