A Three-Tier fallbackModel Setup for Claude Code — Keeping Unattended Runs Alive Through Overload Mornings
How I run Claude Code with a three-tier fallbackModel chain so overnight batches survive overload errors: logging which model actually ran, measuring quality drift on fallback days, and pairing it with deny rules.
This Week at Claude Lab: Failures Without Error Messages, and the Guardrails That Catch Them
Editor's notes on five new posts: stale temp-file contamination, .bak files swept up by git add -A, PreToolUse screening hooks, and two Android dialog-flow redesigns.
When git add -A Sweeps Up .bak Backups — The Quiet Trap of In-Place Fix Scripts
How .bak backups left by sed -i and homegrown --fix scripts get silently swept into production by git add -A, why it is so easy to miss, and how scoped adds and .gitignore close the gap for good.
When Yesterday's Article Bleeds Into Today's — The Stale Fixed-Name Temp File Trap
In a Claude Code automation pipeline, a fixed-name temp file kept stale content from the previous run and leaked old body text into a completely different article. Here is why the write fails silently, and how unique names plus a post-write grep check prevent it.
When git push Says Success but Nothing Lands — the Silent commit Failure in Claude Code
git push prints Everything up-to-date and exits zero, yet your changes never reach the remote. Here is why commit silently fails on a fresh sandbox clone, and how to verify a real push with SHA comparison.
Notes from Seven Months of Running a Four-Site Auto-Publishing Pipeline with Claude Code and GitHub Actions
Lessons from running Claude Code scheduled tasks to auto-publish 16 articles a day across four Lab sites, including the Helpful Content System index collapse that forced a redesign of the quality gate, with the full Python gate code, token management, and rollback procedure.
Skill, Subagents, and Rules in Claude Code: A One-Hour Implementation Loop That Fits a Solo Operator
Misaki Ito at SonicGarden wrote about wiring Claude Code's Skill, Subagents, and Rules to close a week's worth of low-priority work in one meeting. Here is how I adapted that pattern as a solo developer running a 50M-download app business.
A Morning Digest Agent across App Store Connect, Play Console, Crashlytics, and AdMob — 30 days of running it on Claude Agent SDK
Opening four dashboards each morning across six apps used to eat 30 to 50 minutes of my day. Here is the Claude Agent SDK recipe that compressed it into one email, with the measured numbers from a full month.
Why Your `cd` and `export` Vanish Between Claude Code Bash Calls
Claude Code's Bash tool runs each call in a fresh shell, so cd and export never persist. Here's the symptom, the cause, and five practical patterns I use across my Dolice Labs pipelines.
Automated Play Store Staged Rollout Monitoring with Claude Code — Lessons from 50+ Crashes in v2.0.0
A hands-on record of building a Claude Code-powered monitoring system for Android staged rollouts (5%→100%). Covers crash-free rate thresholds, Wilson confidence intervals, and automatic Go/No-Go decisions — based on real experience shipping Beautiful HD Wallpapers to 50M+ users.
Automating Multilingual App Review Replies with Claude API — Real Lessons from 50M Downloads
An indie developer behind 50M+ download apps shares the full implementation of Claude API-powered multilingual review reply automation — including App Store's undocumented 8-second rule, session limits, and the three traps that can get you banned.
Automating Wallpaper Classification with Claude Vision API — Real Lessons from a 50M Download App
A firsthand account of automating wallpaper category classification using Claude Vision API in production. Honest results on accuracy, costs, and pitfalls encountered.