# HEARTBEAT.md
## ⚠️ DEPRECATED - Use Health Summary Instead
**This subsystem has been consolidated into HEALTH.md.**
### Migration
**Old command:**
```bash
decapod heartbeat
```
**New command:**
```bash
decapod govern health summary
```
### What Changed
The `heartbeat` functionality provided a system health overview by aggregating:
- Health claim states (VERIFIED, STALE, CONTRADICTED, ASSERTED)
- Pending policy approvals
- Watcher staleness status
- System alerts
This functionality is now available as the `summary` subcommand under `decapod govern health`.
### Why It Was Moved
Heartbeat was a thin aggregator over health, policy, and watcher data. Moving it under the `govern` group:
1. Reduces top-level CLI clutter (22 → 9 commands)
2. Groups governance/monitoring commands together
3. Makes the relationship to health explicit
4. Maintains all functionality without changes
### See Also
- [plugins/HEALTH.md](./HEALTH.md) - Complete health subsystem documentation
- [plugins/TRUST.md](./TRUST.md) - Also deprecated, use `decapod govern health autonomy`
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**This file is kept for historical reference and will be removed in a future version.**