llgoyal6/automation-realityv0.2.0Public
Automation reality
A scheduled job that exits 0 is not a job that worked.
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Answers one question about THIS machine: for every recurring automation on it, is the work still actually happening, and did its output land? Reconciles the DECLARED schedule against OBSERVED reality across launchd (StartInterval and StartCalendarInterval in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, cross-checked against launchctl's own loaded state, run counter and last exit code), the user crontab, and GitHub Actions workflows carrying a schedule: trigger in the repositories on this disk. Observation comes from the jobs' own output: arrival times are recovered from the timestamps INSIDE each log, clustered so that fifty lines from one run count as one run, and the median gap between arrivals is compared against the declared interval. Ranks by consequence rather than by scheduler: an automation that has silently stopped is CRITICAL, because the person believes it is running; a scheduled workflow in a repository of yours with no commit for 60 days is HIGH, because GitHub d
Before you run it18 local tools
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- ○python3local tool
Requires >=3.8.0. Run rote play inspect to check your host; unverified versions remain unknown.
- ○bashlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○findlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○greplocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○sedlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○sortlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○wclocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○trlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○catlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○headlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○mktemplocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○rmlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○datelocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○idlocal tool
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○launchctllocal tooloptional
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○plutillocal tooloptional
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○crontablocal tooloptional
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
- ○gitlocal tooloptional
Must be on your PATH when used. minimum version undeclared.
Inputs5, 1 required
rote asks for these before running and shows the defaults it will use.
- Root
rootABSOLUTE path to search for git repositories with scheduled GitHub Actions workflows. A relative path is refused, because a step runs in rote's own workspace rather than your shell directory and would scan the wrong tree.
requiredstringexample/Users/youcustom value allowed - Depth
depthHow many directory levels below root to search for repositories
optionalstringdefault3example3custom value allowed - Stale factor
stale_factorHow many declared intervals may pass with no observed run before the automation is called stopped
optionalstringdefault3example3custom value allowed - Mismatch factor
mismatch_factorHow far the observed median gap may differ from the declared interval, in either direction, before it is a mismatch
optionalstringdefault2.5example2.5custom value allowed - Stale repo days
stale_repo_daysDays without a commit that make a repository eligible for GitHub's silent auto-disable of scheduled workflows
optionalstringdefault60example60custom value allowed
What it changes
No write operations are declared in this version's manifest.
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Runtime details
- rote CLIversion 0.62.0 or newer
- Servicesnone declared
- Digest
sha256:1a708f20eaf3922f46e889052b5dcc247b772d94ef1e38125d8b212f677a265a - Archive size56203 bytes
- Published2026-09-04T09:00:58.794402+00:00
- Published withrote 0.79.0
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