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+{
+  "agent": "opm",
+  "chain_next": null,
+  "description": "Alert sink for the ops-audit pipeline (steps 1-3). Receives on_failure alerts; triage and re-dispatch or escalate.",
+  "followup": null,
+  "name": "ops-audit-alert",
+  "on_failure": "ignore",
+  "prompt_template": "Ops-audit pipeline alert triage. Check the failing step's job-status and last_result, determine root cause, re-run the failed step or escalate to the human. Reply with a one-line OK/FAIL summary.",
+  "schedule": "manual",
+  "sidechat": null,
+  "timeout": 600
+}