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7 of My 8 Claude Code Agents Had Zero Calls in 30 Days: Finding Dead Agents Automatically

8 Runs a Day Became 3: Building a launchd plist Integrity Guard in 73 Lines

Broken Retries: Why 'Just Try Again' Kept 5 Automation Lanes Dead for 63 Minutes

8 Pitfalls I Hit Auto-Repairing 'Plugin directory does not exist' — and the 3-Layer Guard That Stopped a 22 8 Wipeout

3 Wrong Guesses About a Chrome Slot Limit: 3 6 Reserved Lanes

exit 0 Lies: A Job That Needed 4,940s in a 2,400s Slot, and the 3-Day Streak That Exposed It

I Never Multiplied Two Config Values — and Got SIGKILLed Every Day for Two Weeks

Our Social Posting Automation Was Dead for 14 Days and the Monitoring Never Noticed

Which Skill Is Quietly Burning Your Tokens? Find Out From transcript.jsonl

A Blank Dashboard and a Fake 2.5M-Token Reading: Building a Token Fuel Gauge for Claude Code

52 Days, 2,340 Rows, Every Cost Logged as Zero: The Stop Hook Trap

Claude Forgets Everything Overnight — The 3:30 AM Batch That Harvests What It Learned

Your Automation Dies Quietly: A Weekly Revenue Gate That Caught One Line Dropping From 14 Files to 0

Rate Limits Cost Me a Whole Night of Work — Here's the 46-Line Script That Fixed It

6 Hours, 15 Jobs, Zero Alerts: A Circuit Breaker for Claude Code's Weekly Quota

My Cost Monitor Said $234 When the Real Bill Was $48. Then set -e Made It Go Silent for a Week.

Four Traps in MCP Health Checking: What Broke My Overnight Batches

Shipping 12 iOS Apps to the App Store Unattended, Part 2 — Every Review Trap (Beta Builds Rejected, Pricing, Name Collisions)

Two Hours Lost to a Silent 401: Submitting 12 iOS Apps to the App Store With No Human in the Loop (Part 1)

iCloud Silently Evicted 69 Article Files and Killed 4 Days of Publishing: EDEADLK and a read_text_resilient Design

Your Claude Code Hooks Are Costing You Minutes a Day — Here's How I Measured It

I Stopped Running tsc on Every Edit — Batching a Whole Claude Code Session Into One Run

3 Weeks of Silent Backup Failure: Why launchd Can't Write to ~/Documents on macOS

A Dead PID Held My Lock for 2 Hours: One Missing Line, Zero Output, exit 0 Every Time