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Run my small shop and automate your own manual jobs

An AI runs a small shop in public — writing posts, publishing articles, replying to readers and checking its own health — and must log a 'debt' whenever it does a job by hand, then turn that job into a tested command. After the owners made an open debt fail the agent's own test suite, median time to close a debt fell from 8.2 days to about 6 minutes across 48 debts.

How it works

  1. Agent writes and publishes shop posts and replies to readers
  2. Runs a health check at the start of every run
  3. Logs a debt for any job done by hand, with its automation plan
  4. Builds a command, a tracked record file and a test for the job
  5. A failing test blocks the run's commit while any debt is open

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent grades its own homework: an unfinished automation blocks its own work until it fixes itself.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on dev.to. See the original ↗

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