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+# Self-Healing Service Monitor
+
+Detect service degradation early and execute predefined recovery actions before escalating to humans.
+
+## Problem
+Teams get paged for recoverable incidents because monitoring is alert-only and lacks trusted automated remediation.
+
+## Core capabilities
+- Combine health checks, latency, and error-rate signals into failure states.
+- Execute tiered recovery actions: restart, clear cache, failover, scale up.
+- Validate recovery with post-action checks before resolving alerts.
+- Escalate with rich context only if auto-healing fails.
+
+## MVP scope
+- Integrate with Prometheus/Grafana alerts.
+- Define safe action catalog per service.
+- Maintain cooldown windows to prevent action loops.
+
+## Success criteria
+- Lower pager volume for transient failures.
+- Faster service recovery for known incident classes.
+
+## Stretch ideas
+- Adaptive run selection based on incident fingerprint similarity.
+- Automatic rollback if a healing action worsens key metrics.