Operations brief
Summarizes service health, host pressure, source posture, deployment evidence, and recovery confidence.
AI Operations Advisor
Operational guidance that keeps the operator in control.
Shepherd interprets Barndoor host, service, edge, incident, deployment, source, and recovery evidence and recommends the next safest human-approved action.
- Maturity
- In development
- Current availability
- Owner-only inside Barndoor
- Action model
- Read-only recommendations
Current capability
Built to interpret shared operational evidence.
Shepherd consolidates signals that would otherwise require several dashboards, checks, and event reviews.
Edge context
Interprets authenticated node freshness, failed checks, stale warnings, critical outages, and recovery.
Incident context
Separates active risk from historical events and newer resolving evidence.
Backup confidence
Distinguishes full backups, verification, snapshots, and restore-drill outcomes.
Release guidance
Points to relevant validation, deployment, and rollback references without executing them.
Explainable recommendation
Produces one bounded next action with supporting evidence and stated uncertainty.
Control boundary
Advice is useful only when its limits remain explicit.
Current boundary
Owner-only and read-only
Shepherd does not restart services, deploy changes, restore backups, delete files, or overwrite live state.
External boundary
No public product endpoint
Public, mobile, voice, and physical-device access remain gated future work.
Future direction
Improve guidance without weakening the security model.
Memory
Operational continuity
Preserve useful incident and maintenance context so guidance can account for prior decisions.
Metrics
Historical interpretation
Use bounded trends and event history to explain change without inventing certainty.
Interfaces
Carefully scoped access
Evaluate owner interfaces only after identity, freshness, replay, rate, and failure boundaries are proven.