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>
