The original title is: "Is Your 24/7 Automation Actually Alive? Checking It With a Single Command"

Short summary

A practical guide to monitoring unattended Claude automation via a single shell script that checks launchd jobs, hooks, and log freshness, returning a GREEN/WARN/FAIL verdict. The author shares real code from ~/.claude/scripts/automation-health.sh covering nine sections of checks including job load status, exit codes, hook permissions, and log staleness. The approach lets you chain follow-up actions via exit codes and catch silent failures that could otherwise go unnoticed for days.

• •Single-command health check for unattended Claude automation returns GREEN/WARN/FAIL
• •Covers launchd jobs, hook permissions, log freshness, and skill generation
• •Exit codes enable chaining with CI or daily brief scripts

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