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Fire drill

A duty that fails on purpose, halfway through. Press Run now and the failure should be on the page in red, naming the step that broke and what it said. If this one ever looks like a success, the run history is lying.

Duty

Id
fire-drill
Trigger
button — Run the drill
State
enabled
Created
2026-08-09 20:30 UTC
Updated
2026-08-09 20:30 UTC

Runs

Every time this duty has fired — on its schedule and by hand.

Flow — 3 steps

What runs, in order. Reading, not editing — the duty's own agent writes it.

Do something that works the box runs something command: echo 'the first step is fine' </> Do something that works echo 'the first step… Fall over on purpose the box runs something command: echo 'this is the deliberate failure' >&2; exit 3 </> Fall over on purpose echo 'this is the de… Never gets here deliberately nothing reason: The step before it fails, so the run stops. ∅ Never gets here The step before it f…
  • </> code — the box runs something
  • ∅ noop — deliberately nothing
Read it as a list
  1. code Do something that works → fall_over
  2. code Fall over on purpose → never_runs
  3. noop Never gets here