# ABC PLEASE: The Missing Protocol in AI Agent Health ABC PLEASE, adapted from DBT's self-care protocol, represents what the [[eFIT/Framework]] identifies as the biggest gap in current AI systems engineering. The protocol addresses **system readiness and agent health tracking across sessions** — a capability completely absent from production AI systems. ## What's Missing No current system tracks: - Agent fatigue - Context window exhaustion - Accumulated errors - Performance degradation over sessions - Optimal operating conditions This is analogous to running a human worker 24/7 without ever checking if they've slept, eaten, or are experiencing burnout. ## Why This Matters The discovery that engineering has *not* independently arrived at this pattern — unlike [[Stopper Protocol]]/circuit breakers, Check the Facts/validation, etc. — despite 70+ years of computing suggests that [[Theory/Clinical Framing Debate]] uniquely reveals insights that pure engineering misses. The relevant prior art and research gaps are surveyed in [[eFIT/Prior Art]]. ## The Opportunity ABC PLEASE is positioned as the biggest innovation opportunity for the eFIT framework — the one protocol where clinical framing provides genuinely novel engineering insight rather than a different vocabulary for existing practices. ## Related - [[Cognition/Cortexgraph]] — CortexGraph health metrics could implement ABC PLEASE agent monitoring - [[eFIT/Framework]] — the umbrella framework that identifies ABC PLEASE as the key missing protocol - [[Stopper Protocol]] — a sibling eFIT protocol that, unlike ABC PLEASE, has already been independently discovered by engineering - [[Theory/Clinical Framing Debate]] — the strategic rationale for using clinical language, which ABC PLEASE uniquely validates - [[eFIT/Prior Art]] — the research gap analysis that highlights ABC PLEASE as novel - [[Cognition/Tattooed Ralph Loop]] — the on_wake/on_sleep lifecycle hooks could implement agent health tracking across sessions --- *Atomic note derived from CortexGraph memories*