Dead Man's Snitch

Fair

Agent Native Score

Free TierAPI Key Auth

A dead man's switch service that monitors scheduled jobs and sends alerts if expected check-ins fail to occur. It helps catch job failures, hung processes, and missed cron executions before they become serious problems.

Categories: Monitoring · Alerting

#6 of 52 in Monitoring · #1 of 7 in Alerting

Checklist Breakdown

15 of 33 checks passed. 14 unscored.

Discovery 50%

Can an agent find and understand this tool without a web search?

✗ Published OpenAPI/Swagger spec

✗ Has llms.txt or llms-full.txt

✗ Has an MCP server (official or well-maintained)

✗ MCP server listed in a public registry

✓ API reference docs are publicly accessible

✓ Docs include runnable code examples

✓ Has a public changelog or release notes

✓ Has a public status page

Auth & Onboarding 100%

Can an agent create an account and get credentials without human intervention?

✓ Signup does not require CAPTCHA

✓ Signup does not require phone verification

✓ Supports API key auth (not only OAuth)

✓ API key obtainable without manual approval

✓ No mandatory billing info to start

✓ Can sign up without creating an organization

Pricing 100%

Can an agent operate autonomously without upfront payment or contracts?

✓ Has a free tier

✓ Usage-based pricing available

✓ No minimum contract or commitment

✓ Pricing page is public (no 'contact sales')

✓ Free tier sufficient for testing (not just a trial)

Agent Tooling Not yet scored

How well does the API work for non-human consumers?

— SDK available in 2+ languages

— Structured error responses (JSON with error codes)

— Idempotency support on write endpoints

— Pagination on list endpoints

— Webhook/event support

— Sandbox or test mode available

— Rate limit headers in responses

— Consistent REST resource naming

Reliability Not yet scored

Does the tool fail gracefully when an agent makes a mistake?

— Meaningful error messages (not just 500)

— 429 responses include Retry-After header

— Documented uptime SLA (99.9%+)

— Graceful degradation under rate limits

— Request IDs in responses for debugging

— API versioning supported

Reviewer Notes

Dead Man's Snitch lacks comprehensive API documentation and has no MCP server or OpenAPI spec, making agent discovery difficult. While it offers a simple API key authentication and free tier suitable for autonomous operation, the API is minimalist (primarily webhook-based check-ins) rather than feature-rich for agent interaction. The service is reliable for its core use case but doesn't expose monitoring/configuration endpoints that would enable agents to dynamically manage snitch settings.

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