Module — Module 3 — Settlement Watchdog Agent

Goal: You can deploy, explain, and operationalize Module 3 — Settlement Watchdog Agent as a consulting product.

What this agent is

Settlement Watchdog tracks settlement latency, retry behavior, and failure rates across tokenized asset rails and their supporting systems. It exists to protect trust in near-real-time settlement by making reliability measurable and explainable.

Core question it answers

Signals (what it watches)

• Latency thresholds: Measures time-to-settle vs agreed targets and alerts on drift.
• Failure/rollback flags: Detects failed settlements, cancellations, and rollbacks.
• Retry & queue buildup: Monitors retries, backlog growth, and timeouts.
• Dependency health: Correlates issues to upstream/downstream services (APIs, databases, messaging).

Outputs (what it produces)

• Reliability Alert: Immediate alert with scope, latency metrics, and affected workflows.
• Incident Timeline: Chronological narrative for ops + leadership + audit.
• Post‑Mortem Brief: Root-cause framing, mitigations, and next controls.
• SLA / SLO Report: Monthly reliability report with trend lines and control actions.

Operational workflow

1. Define settlement SLAs/SLOs and systems of record for measurement.
2. Instrument latency and failure events; unify into a single incident view.
3. On anomaly: create incident timeline automatically and assign severity.
4. Trigger Compliance Explainer to translate incident into governance language.
5. Complete post-mortem with corrective actions and prevention controls.

Client talk-track (enterprise safe)

Module completion

Pass the quiz (80%+) to complete this module.