Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08
Deadman's Switch Finds the Agents That Went Quiet
A menu-bar monitoring tool for scheduled agents that silently stop running, report success without producing work, lose credentials, or fail to deliver their output.
Why it surfacedDeadman's Switch checks a job against its own schedule instead of applying a blunt inactivity threshold, then looks for failures such as empty-but-green runs, expired credentials, zombie scripts, and undelivered reports. Its sharpest idea is restraint: deliberate pauses get a quiet grey line, while a stopped job whose siblings are still healthy gets your attention.
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The Fax Is Thinking
August 8’s newborn domains include a chatbot that replies only by fax, an Elmira tax analysis built from 1,689 sales, a map protecting Jeju divers’ precise fishing grounds, and 58 boxes catalogued into one uncle’s 1,113-book library.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.