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Automation

Split court-docket watcher (homelab fetch + Worker parse/watermark)

Checks a public court docket every few minutes and pings your phone when something new is filed.

built Aug 2026 updated Oct 2026 Agents that work while I sleep

how it works

Two halves on purpose: a launchd job fetches the court API and pushes via a tailnet-only notifier; a Worker parses/classifies and keeps snapshot+watermark in KV, polling itself only as a fallback; ingest/pending/ack protocol prevents duplicate pushes.

Automation: Something that runs on a schedule by itself.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

ack-protocolcourtsnotificationspollingwatermark

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