My Server Files Its Own Tickets, Then Waits for My Signature to Heal Itself

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/sanity-2026-09-16">Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Servers crash at 3 AM. A human wakes up, SSHs in, types <code>systemctl restart</code>, and goes back to sleep. I wondered if the <em>ticket</em> could do that work instead.</p> <p><strong>Ops Brain</strong> is a server that files its own incident reports in Sanity and heals itself, but only after a human approves.</p> <p>The loop:</p> <ol> <li>A small Python agent watches my Ubuntu machine.</li> <li>nginx dies

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/sanity-2026-09-16">Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Servers crash at 3 AM. A human wakes up, SSHs in, types <code>systemctl restart</code>, and goes back to sleep. I wondered if the <em>ticket</em> could do that work instead.</p> <p><strong>Ops Brain</strong> is a server that files its own incident reports in Sanity and heals itself, but only after a human approves.</p> <p>The loop:</p> <ol> <li>A small Python agent watches my Ubuntu machine.</li> <li>nginx dies

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/sanity-2026-09-16">Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Servers crash at 3 AM. A human wakes up, SSHs in, types <code>systemctl restart</code>, and goes back to sleep. I wondered if the <em>ticket</em> could do that work instead.</p> <p><strong>Ops Brain</strong> is a server that files its own incident reports in Sanity and heals itself, but only after a human approves.</p> <p>The loop:</p> <ol> <li>A small Python agent watches my Ubuntu machine.</li> <li>nginx dies

Evidence

My Server Files Its Own Tickets, Then Waits for My Signature to Heal Itself

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