The Reliability Stack
Agent reliability isn’t a single problem — it’s a lifecycle. ACME builds tools across that lifecycle: detecting risk before it becomes failure, protecting against failure at runtime, governing routing decisions, and supporting recovery when incidents occur.The Lifecycle
Phase by Phase
Detect — Know your risk posture
RadCheck — Free, read-only scan Before you can protect against reliability failures, you need to know where the risk is. RadCheck performs a fast, non-destructive scan and produces a 0–100 reliability score across four domains: stall risk, silence gaps, compaction pressure, and operational hygiene. Run it before deploying. Run it after incidents. Run it periodically as part of reliability hygiene.Protect — Catch failures as they happen
Sentinel — Paid continuous monitoring RadCheck is a point-in-time scan. Sentinel watches continuously, catching the silent failures and stalls that don’t crash but quietly stop your workflows. It runs as a lightweight observer alongside your agents — no interference, just detection. Watchdog — Heartbeat and progress verification The more precise sibling to Sentinel. Watchdog distinguishes between an agent that’s alive and an agent that’s progressing — a distinction that matters when agents get stuck rather than crash. Pair with the heartbeat SDK for maximum fidelity.Govern — Keep routing disciplined
SphinxGate — Paid policy enforcement As routing complexity grows — multiple models, fallbacks, contexts — SphinxGate keeps it deterministic and auditable. Every routing decision is policy-driven, logged, and provable. Essential for teams with compliance requirements or multi-provider setups.Triage — Understand what went wrong
OCTriage — Free incident assessment When something breaks, OCTriage is your first tool. It collects context, classifies the failure pattern, and gives you a concrete next step — along with an evidence bundle for post-incident review or support escalation.Recover — Verify you can get back up
Lazarus — Free recovery readiness Most teams discover their backups don’t work during an actual incident. Lazarus validates recovery readiness proactively: backup coverage, restore assumption validation, and readiness scoring before failure forces the test.Operate — Long-horizon visibility
DriftGuard — Long-horizon drift detection The problems that don’t announce themselves. DriftGuard tracks behavioral baselines and flags slow erosion — context growth, latency trends, output consistency — before they cross into active failure. Agent911 — Paid unified control plane The operator surface that aggregates everything. Health signals, anomaly detections, routing state, recovery readiness — all in one snapshot. When something goes wrong, Agent911 is where you go. FindMyAgent — Fleet presence visibility (included with Agent911) Live presence, heartbeat age, and “needs attention” flags for every agent in your fleet. Included with Agent911.Infrastructure
Transmission — Event coherence layer The reliability infrastructure for reliability signals. Transmission ensures events flow correctly between components — ordered, deduplicated, and delivered even under degraded conditions.How Tools Connect
Adoption Path
Most teams start small and add coverage as their agent fleet grows:Solo operator / single agent
- RadCheck — Get your first reliability score (free, takes 5 minutes)
- OCTriage — Have it ready for when incidents happen (free)
- Sentinel — Add when you want continuous protection
Small team / multiple agents
Add to the above: 4. Watchdog — Progress verification beyond what Sentinel observes 5. Agent911 — Unified view when you’re managing more than a couple of agents 6. Lazarus — Validate recovery readiness proactivelyMulti-model / regulated environment
Add to the above: 7. SphinxGate — Deterministic routing with audit trail 8. DriftGuard — Long-horizon behavioral baseline trackingFree vs. Paid
Free tools build trust. Paid tools solve the problem at scale. See Pricing for current rates.
Next Steps
5-Minute Quickstart
Get RadCheck running and see your first reliability score.
RadCheck
Start with a free scan before deciding what else to add.