Automating a Daily Morning Health Check for Your Claude Code Setup with launchd

Short summary

A detailed tutorial on building an automated daily health-check script (daily-brief.sh) that runs via macOS launchd and compiles production HTTP probes, hook latency p95, API costs, and git status into a single Markdown brief. The script handles Vercel cold-start false alarms with retry logic and probes Gumroad billing flows. The author shares concrete bash code, file paths, and lessons from two incidents that slipped through manual monitoring.

• •launchd runs daily-brief.sh three times daily, consolidating probes, latency, costs, and git status into one Markdown file
• •Retry logic and timeout tuning eliminate false alarms from Vercel cold starts
• •Two real incidents motivated the build: a blank GitHub Scout and a billing API config error

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