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Scott KarpandClaude Fable 5.1 489cf11416 kohen: the watchdog — /kodesh/health watched from outside, a Gitea issue on failure
2026-10-15: the site was 503 for 13.5 h across a day boundary and the
Doorpost outage was found by losing Claude; 24 h of database refusals
were found the same way. Nothing watched.

scripts/bikoret-watchdog (installed at ~/.local/bin, cron every 5 min
on the dev VM) probes /kodesh/health. Two consecutive failures open ONE
Gitea issue in this repo naming the failed checks and what to read
first; while down it comments only when the failed set changes; on
recovery it comments the duration and closes the issue. Transitions go
to ~/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log; silence is health.

Proven: healthy → exit 0, no log; dead URL ×3 → FAIL #1, #2, one ALERT
(not two), #3 no second issue; recovery → comment + close. The real
Gitea call was refused 403: the clone token in ~/.git-credentials has
only the code scopes. The script prefers
~/.config/bikoret/gitea_watchdog_token (write:issue), which the kohen
issues; until then it logs and tracks recovery but cannot open the
issue. KOHEN.md "Every morning" carries it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-20 18:13:19 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""bikoret-watchdog — the kohen's eye on /kodesh/health, from outside the cluster.
Every run (cron, every 5 minutes) probes the health endpoint. A failure is
anything but 200 with overall "healthy" (a 503 at the day boundary, a
Doorpost drift, a hung rollout, the gate dark). After two consecutive
failures (10 minutes — a rollout's own blip does not alert) it opens ONE
Gitea issue in the repo naming the failed checks; while down it comments
only when the failed set changes; on recovery it comments the duration and
closes the issue. Every transition goes to the log. 2026-10-15: the site
was 503 for 13.5 h at a day boundary and the transmitter learned of the
Doorpost outage by losing Claude — nothing watched.
Paths:
state ~/.local/state/bikoret-watchdog/state.json
log ~/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log
token ~/.git-credentials (the Gitea token; read, never printed)
Env overrides (for a test run): BIKORET_HEALTH_URL, BIKORET_WATCHDOG_STATE,
BIKORET_WATCHDOG_LOG, BIKORET_GITEA_API (default https://git.bikoret.ch/api/v1),
BIKORET_GITEA_REPO (default heaviness510/bikoret), BIKORET_WATCHDOG_DRY=1 (no issue).
"""
import json, os, re, sys, time, urllib.request, urllib.error
from datetime import datetime, timezone
HOME = os.path.expanduser("~")
URL = os.environ.get("BIKORET_HEALTH_URL", "https://bikoret.ch/kodesh/health")
STATE = os.environ.get("BIKORET_WATCHDOG_STATE", f"{HOME}/.local/state/bikoret-watchdog/state.json")
LOG = os.environ.get("BIKORET_WATCHDOG_LOG", f"{HOME}/shorashim-operator-notes/watchdog.log")
API = os.environ.get("BIKORET_GITEA_API", "https://git.bikoret.ch/api/v1")
REPO = os.environ.get("BIKORET_GITEA_REPO", "heaviness510/bikoret")
DRY = os.environ.get("BIKORET_WATCHDOG_DRY") == "1"
THRESHOLD = 2
def now():
return datetime.now(timezone.utc)
def log(msg):
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(LOG), exist_ok=True)
with open(LOG, "a") as f:
f.write(f"{now().strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')} {msg}\n")
def probe():
"""(ok, summary, failed_checks)"""
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(URL, headers={"user-agent": "bikoret-watchdog"}), timeout=15) as r:
code, body = r.status, r.read()
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
code, body = e.code, e.read()
except Exception as e: # DNS, TLS, timeout, refused
return False, f"unreachable: {type(e).__name__}: {e}", ["unreachable"]
try:
d = json.loads(body)
checks = d.get("checks") or {}
failed = sorted(k for k, v in checks.items() if v != "pass")
overall = d.get("overall")
ok = code == 200 and overall == "healthy"
return ok, f"HTTP {code} overall={overall} failed={failed or 'none'}", failed or ([f"HTTP {code}"] if not ok else [])
except Exception:
return False, f"HTTP {code} non-JSON body ({len(body)} bytes)", [f"HTTP {code}"]
def token():
"""The Gitea token: ~/.config/bikoret/gitea_watchdog_token first (a token
the kohen issued with write:issue — the clone token in ~/.git-credentials
has only the code scopes and Gitea answers 403 on an issue), else that."""
try:
t = open(f"{HOME}/.config/bikoret/gitea_watchdog_token").read().strip()
if t:
return t
except FileNotFoundError:
pass
try:
for line in open(f"{HOME}/.git-credentials"):
m = re.match(r"https?://([^:]+):([^@]+)@", line.strip())
if m:
return m.group(2)
except FileNotFoundError:
pass
return None
def gitea(method, path, payload=None):
if DRY:
log(f"DRY {method} {path} {json.dumps(payload)[:120] if payload else ''}")
return {"number": -1, "html_url": "(dry)"}
tok = token()
if not tok:
log("no Gitea token in ~/.git-credentials — cannot open an issue")
return None
data = json.dumps(payload).encode() if payload is not None else None
req = urllib.request.Request(f"{API}/repos/{REPO}{path}", data=data, method=method,
headers={"authorization": f"token {tok}", "content-type": "application/json", "accept": "application/json"})
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=20) as r:
return json.loads(r.read() or b"{}")
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
log(f"Gitea {method} {path} -> HTTP {e.code}: {e.read()[:120]!r}")
return None
except Exception as e:
log(f"Gitea {method} {path} failed: {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
return None
def load_state():
try:
return json.load(open(STATE))
except Exception:
return {"fails": 0, "down_since": None, "issue": None, "failed": []}
def save_state(s):
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(STATE), exist_ok=True)
tmp = STATE + ".tmp"
json.dump(s, open(tmp, "w"))
os.replace(tmp, STATE)
def main():
s = load_state()
ok, summary, failed = probe()
t = now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%SZ")
if ok:
if s["issue"] is not None or s["down_since"]:
since = s["down_since"] or t
mins = int((now() - datetime.fromisoformat(since.replace("Z", "+00:00").replace(" ", "T"))).total_seconds() // 60)
log(f"RECOVERED after {mins} min ({summary})")
if s["issue"] is not None:
gitea("POST", f"/issues/{s['issue']}/comments", {"body": f"Recovered at {t} after {mins} min. `{summary}`"})
gitea("PATCH", f"/issues/{s['issue']}", {"state": "closed"})
elif s["fails"]:
log(f"ok again after {s['fails']} failed probe(s), no alert raised ({summary})")
save_state({"fails": 0, "down_since": None, "issue": None, "failed": []})
return 0
s["fails"] += 1
if not s["down_since"]:
s["down_since"] = t
log(f"FAIL #{s['fails']}: {summary}")
if s["fails"] >= THRESHOLD and s["issue"] is None:
body = (f"bikoret.ch health has failed {s['fails']} consecutive probes since {s['down_since']}.\n\n"
f"Last probe: `{summary}`\n\nFailed checks: {', '.join(failed) or 'none named'}\n\n"
"What to look at first: the vav-pipeline startup log (`kubectl -n shorashim logs <pod> -c vav-pipeline | grep -v health`) — "
"a Doorpost drift, stale manna at the day boundary, and a missing anchor all look the same from outside. "
"Claude Code behind the gate is down with the site: `claude-direct` or `claude-key` (KOHEN.md, Fallback).\n\n"
"Opened by bikoret-watchdog on the dev VM; it will comment and close this issue on recovery.")
r = gitea("POST", "/issues", {"title": f"WATCHDOG: bikoret.ch down since {s['down_since']} ({', '.join(failed)[:60]})", "body": body, "labels": []})
if r:
s["issue"] = r.get("number")
s["failed"] = failed
log(f"ALERT issue #{s['issue']} opened: {r.get('html_url')}")
elif s["issue"] is not None and failed != s.get("failed"):
gitea("POST", f"/issues/{s['issue']}/comments", {"body": f"{t}: failed checks now {', '.join(failed)} — `{summary}`"})
s["failed"] = failed
log(f"issue #{s['issue']} updated: failed={failed}")
save_state(s)
return 1
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())