behind the bar · how she stays up

She keeps herself running

Tootsies watches her own vitals, catches a service going down, and files her own fix — usually before anyone in the room notices.

The whole idea: every part of her reports how it's doing. She reads her own health on a loop, and when something craters she doesn't just go quiet — she trips a safety switch, leans on a backup, and orders a fix herself.
every ~30 minutes, on her own 🩺 CHECK VITALS reads her own telemetry ⚠ SPOTS A CRATER a feed's failing hard 📝 files her own fix-order 🔔 flags it in #bot-logs She doesn't wait for a complaint — the day a music feed throttled her 1,600× and she stayed silent is exactly what this catches now. (The fix-order runs the same pipeline as Order a feature.)

Safety switches (circuit breakers)

When an outside service starts failing, she doesn't keep slamming a dead door. A breaker trips, she stops calling it for a bit, and she leans on a backup feed — so she degrades gracefully instead of going dark.

feed A failing ××× BREAKER TRIPS stops calling it feed B (backup) picks up the slack After a cool-down she sends one test call; if the feed's healthy again, she flips it back on.
Each outside service has its own breaker, so one going down never drags the rest with it.

Budget watch

The paid feeds have monthly or daily limits. She tracks how much of each is left and flags one nearing its cap before it hits the wall — so a feed never silently runs out mid-game.

how much budget is left sports scores 32% used betting lines 89% — flagged voice minutes 20% used A feed crossing its line raises a flag before the limit, not after the wall — the gap that once took /bet dark.

A twice-daily self-review

On top of the live watch, a routine runs twice a day that grades her own recent posts, checks her speed, and groups any errors — then files a tracked issue for anything off, so a slow drift gets caught even when nothing's outright broken.

SELF-REVIEW · 2×/day grades her own posts, speed & errors anything off the mark? flag it files a tracked issue deduped, no spam
Add it up and she's her own night-shift: vitals on a loop, breakers for the outages, a budget watch, and a twice-daily review — most of which fixes itself before the room ever sees a hiccup.

under the hoodRailway (runtime logs + deploys) · GitHub (files the fix-orders + issues) · Claude (judges the flagged samples) · her own circuit breakers, budget polls & structured telemetry

mostly invisible by design · see also Order a feature