Why Your AI Agent Health Check Is Lying to You

Your monitoring dashboard shows green across the board. Process running. Port responding. CPU normal. Memory stable. But your AI agent hasn't done anything useful in four hours. The problem with traditional health checks Traditional health checks answer one question: "Is the process alive?" For web servers, that's usually enough. If Nginx is running and responding on port 80, it's probably serving pages. AI agents are different. An agent can be alive without being productive. The process is runn