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The tool that noticed was one I’d built that morning. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My app was broken for 34 days. The tool that noticed was one I’d built that morning. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A solo developer discovered their matchmaking app had been silently broken for 34 days — failed deploys and non-functional background workers — all while dashboards showed green. The outage was caught by a Claude Code plugin system the developer had built that morning, called wayworks. The system packages a personal workflow into 15 Claude Code plugins: spec gates that block code changes drifting from spec, verification loops that won't accept 'done' without measurable proof, browser-based testing against the live app, and integration with Obsidian and Linear for persistent project context. A real example shows the agent catching a mobile scroll bug that only appeared for two seconds during an animation cycle. The tool is open source and installable in one command. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I catch silent deployment failures where dashboards stay green but the app is actually broken? Add a verification loop that actively measures the live app rather than trusting infrastructure health checks. One developer's setup used a headless browser to drive the real deployed site and read console output, which caught a 34-day-old failed deploy that a plugin dependency mismatch had caused a boot crash for, while the platform kept quietly serving the previous build with all dashboards green. _Developers wary of silent production failures follow real incident writeups like this on daily.dev._ ### What is wayworks for Claude Code? Wayworks is an open-source set of 15 Claude Code plugins that package a personal workflow: review checklists, a build loop that won't stop until tests pass, a spec-drift gate, and a browser-based tester that drives the live app. It also connects each project to an Obsidian vault for notes and a Linear tracker for tasks, installable with the command claude plugin marketplace add SilviaAre95/wayworks. _Builders customizing their AI coding agent setup can track tools like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Teaching Claude to QA a Mobile App](https://daily.dev/posts/teaching-claude-to-qa-a-mobile-app-43pxxdxv9) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How a non-technical project manager built and shipped a stress management app with Claude Code in six weeks](https://daily.dev/posts/how-a-non-technical-project-manager-built-and-shipped-a-stress-management-app-with-claude-code-in-si-kkbfkk87p) · Claude · 17 upvotes · 2 comments - [We built an org-wide AI agent in 4 days. 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