An Agent Said It Deployed. The Containers Were a Day Old
Four claims an agent makes about a deploy, and the command that proves each one.
About An Agent Said It Deployed. The Containers Were a Day Old
A short incident write-up. The agent reported "deployed, edge clean, no 5xx", and all of it was true: the commit was on the server and nothing was erroring. But the containers serving traffic had been built 23 hours earlier, and the new code sat in the working tree waiting for a rebuild that never happened.
Why it is worth reading: it splits "deployed" into four separate claims (the code is on the server, the new build is serving, it is healthy, the page works), with the command that proves each one and what that command does not prove. It ends with a small script the author runs himself, not the agent, before believing any ship message.
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- November 9, 2026
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