Deploy-poll loop

A hands-free ops loop that polls your deploy every two minutes, runs the smoke test the moment it goes live, and stops with a report if any check fails.

Implementation note

When to use: you have kicked off a deploy and the next twenty minutes are otherwise dead time — waiting to see it go live, then remembering to run the smoke test against it. How it works: every two minutes the loop checks deploy status. The moment the deploy is live it runs the smoke test and summarizes the results; if the smoke test fails, it reports the failing check and stops rather than continuing to poll or attempting fixes. Safety: the stop-on-failure clause is the notable rail — a failed smoke test halts the loop with a report, leaving the response decision (rollback, hotfix, investigate) to you instead of the loop improvising remediation against production. Everything it does is read-and-report: status checks and test runs, no code or infrastructure changes. It is cheap at a two-minute cadence, but kill it once the deploy is confirmed rather than leaving it polling. Hardened 2026-07-27: explicit stop/cap/verification guardrails appended; regraded D→A.

Source: Claude Directory blog ↗

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