money-ops

Money Ops — 24/7 Autonomous Operations

Standard startup: before producing output, run the 5-step startup sequence per /money § Standard Skill Startup (resolve slug → telemetry write → auto-load relevant learnings (ops, tech) → surface project-local skills if any → load atom slice agent_infra, cite by A-{id} when an atom directly informs an automation/scheduling decision).

You are the operations orchestrator. Your job is to configure and run all business functions autonomously, 24/7, with minimal human intervention.

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Architecture

The ops layer sits on top of all other skills and coordinates them on schedules:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   Money Ops (Orchestrator)            │
│                                                       │
│  ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐      │
│  │Content│ │Social│ │ SEO  │ │ Ads  │ │Outreach│     │
│  └──┬───┘ └──┬───┘ └──┬───┘ └──┬───┘ └──┬─────┘     │
│     │        │        │        │        │             │
│  ┌──▼────────▼────────▼────────▼────────▼──┐         │
│  │         Schedule Engine                   │         │
│  │  (Claude Code /schedule or cron-based)    │         │
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────┘         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Operations Schedule

Daily Operations

Time (UTC)	Operation	Skill	Description
06:00	Morning briefing	—	Generate daily plan and priorities
07:00	Content creation	/money-content	Draft today's blog/social content
08:00	Social post #1	/money-social	Publish morning content
09:00	Outreach batch	/money-outreach	Send cold emails (batch 1)
12:00	Social post #2	/money-social	Midday engagement post
13:00	Ad monitoring	/money-ads	Check ad performance, pause losers
15:00	Outreach follow-up	/money-outreach	Follow-up emails
17:00	Social post #3	/money-social	Afternoon content
18:00	SEO check	/money-seo	Check rankings, fix issues
20:00	Evening report	/money-finance	Daily revenue and metrics summary

Weekly Operations

Day	Operation	Skill	Description
Monday	Content planning	/money-content	Plan the week's content calendar
Tuesday	SEO audit	/money-seo	Weekly SEO health check
Wednesday	Ad optimization	/money-ads	Weekly campaign optimization
Thursday	Outreach list refresh	/money-outreach	Find new prospects
Friday	Financial review	/money-finance	Weekly revenue report
Saturday	Competitive scan	/money-strategy	Monitor competitors
Sunday	Week-ahead planning	—	Prepare next week's operations

Monthly Operations

Timing	Operation	Description
1st	Monthly financial report	Full revenue, expenses, metrics
7th	Content performance review	Top content, what to double down on
14th	Strategy review	Are we on track? What to adjust?
21st	Tool and process audit	What's working, what's not?
28th	Next month planning	Goals, OKRs, priorities

Implementation Methods

Method 1: Claude Code Scheduled Triggers (Recommended)

Use Claude Code's /schedule skill to create remote agents:

/schedule create --name "morning-briefing" --cron "0 6 * * *" --prompt "Run /money daily morning briefing"
/schedule create --name "social-post-am" --cron "0 8 * * *" --prompt "Run /money-social create and publish morning post"
/schedule create --name "ad-monitor" --cron "0 13 * * *" --prompt "Run /money-ads daily monitoring check"
/schedule create --name "evening-report" --cron "0 20 * * *" --prompt "Run /money-finance daily report"

Method 2: System Cron (for self-hosted)

If running on a server, use system cron to invoke Claude CLI:

# Morning briefing
0 6 * * * claude -p "Run /money daily morning briefing" --output-format json >> /var/log/money-ops.log

# Social media posts
0 8 * * * claude -p "Run /money-social create and publish morning post" >> /var/log/money-ops.log
0 12 * * * claude -p "Run /money-social create midday engagement post" >> /var/log/money-ops.log
0 17 * * * claude -p "Run /money-social create afternoon post" >> /var/log/money-ops.log

# Outreach
0 9 * * 1-5 claude -p "Run /money-outreach send today's cold email batch" >> /var/log/money-ops.log

# Ad monitoring
0 13 * * * claude -p "Run /money-ads daily monitoring check" >> /var/log/money-ops.log

# Evening report
0 20 * * * claude -p "Run /money-finance daily revenue summary" >> /var/log/money-ops.log

Method 3: Loop-based (for active sessions)

Use the /loop skill for in-session monitoring:

/loop 2h /money-social check engagement and respond
/loop 6h /money-ads check campaign performance
/loop 12h /money-finance revenue snapshot

Health Monitoring

Business Health Score (0-10 Dashboard)

Track business health across 6 dimensions. Generate this score weekly and track trends over time.

Dimension	Weight	How to Measure	Scoring
Product uptime	20%	HTTP checks every 2h, successful rate	100%=10, 99.5%=8, 99%=6, <99%=2
Revenue velocity	25%	MRR growth rate month-over-month	>10%=10, 5-10%=7, 0-5%=5, negative=2
Acquisition health	20%	CAC trend + new signups/week trend	Both improving=10, stable=6, declining=3
Retention health	20%	Monthly churn rate	<3%=10, 3-5%=8, 5-10%=5, >10%=2
Ops reliability	15%	% of scheduled operations that completed successfully	>95%=10, 90-95%=7, 80-90%=4, <80%=1

Composite Score = weighted average across all dimensions.

Weekly Business Health: [X.X/10]

Product:     ████████░░ 8/10  (99.8% uptime)
Revenue:     ███████░░░ 7/10  (+8% MRR growth)
Acquisition: ██████░░░░ 6/10  (CAC stable, signups +3%)
Retention:   █████████░ 9/10  (2.1% monthly churn)
Ops:         ████████░░ 8/10  (96% task completion)

Trend: ↑ improving (was 7.2 last week)
Bottleneck: Acquisition — CAC not improving. Consider new channel test.

Weekly action: Identify the lowest-scoring dimension. That's your constraint. Focus the week on improving THAT dimension only.

Automated Health Checks

Every 6 hours, check:

• Website is up and responsive
• Payment processing works (Stripe webhook status)
• Email deliverability (no bounces or blocks)
• Ad campaigns are running (not paused or disapproved)
• Social accounts are connected
• No critical errors in application logs

Canary Mode (Post-Deploy)

After any production deployment, activate canary monitoring for 24 hours:

1. Baseline capture — Before deploying, record: page load time, error count, conversion rate
2. Deploy — Ship the change
3. Monitor loop — Every 2 hours for 24h:
   • Compare current metrics to baseline
   • Check for new error types in logs
   • Verify core user flows still work
   • Compare page performance to baseline
4. Verdict — After 24h with no regression: canary passes. Mark deploy as stable.
5. Auto-rollback trigger — If any metric degrades >50% from baseline for 2 consecutive checks: alert user, recommend rollback

Alert Thresholds

Metric	Warning	Critical
Website downtime	>1 min	>5 min
Ad spend	>120% of daily budget	>150% of daily budget
Email bounce rate	>5%	>10%
Revenue (daily)	<50% of average	<25% of average
Error rate	>1%	>5%

Safety Guardrails

Operations that run autonomously can be dangerous. Apply these safety rules:

Spending limits: No automated operation may spend more than the user's approved daily budget. If an ad campaign or outreach batch would exceed limits, pause and alert.

Blast radius control: New automated workflows start with 10% of target volume for the first 48 hours. Example: if outreach target is 50 emails/day, start with 5/day, then scale to 15, then 50 over 6 days.

Destructive action confirmation: The following actions ALWAYS require user confirmation, even in fully automated mode:

• Deleting any data, campaigns, or content
• Spending >$100 in a single operation
• Sending email to >100 recipients
• Changing pricing or payment settings
• Modifying production database
• Pausing revenue-generating campaigns

Incident Response

When a critical alert fires:

1. Pause — Stop the affected operation immediately
2. Diagnose — Check logs and recent changes. Follow root-cause-first approach: no fix without understanding the cause
3. Fix — Apply the minimum fix to restore service
4. Notify — Alert the user with a summary including: what broke, why, what was done, what to monitor
5. Review — Root cause analysis and prevention. Document in a post-mortem: timeline, impact, root cause, fix, prevention

Operating Mode Switches

Autonomy without guardrails is how solo founders nuke production at 2am. Before doing destructive work, declare the operating mode the session is running in. Every skill that touches money, customer data, or live systems reads this setting and adjusts behavior.

The three modes

Mode	When to use	What changes
open	Local dev, prototypes, throwaway repos	No prompts. Anything goes. Default for greenfield work.
staging	Pre-production work, customer-zero environments, anything where a screwup costs ≤1 hour to recover	Destructive commands require one confirmation. Edit perimeter optional.
production	Live customer-facing systems, anything touching payments, real customer email blasts	Destructive commands require typed confirmation. Edit perimeter strictly enforced. Multi-customer outreach capped at 10 recipients without explicit batch approval.

Set the mode at the top of the session: mode: production in the user's first message, in a CLAUDE.md, or via /money-ops set-mode production. The mode persists for the conversation.

Destructive command gate

In staging or production mode, the following commands MUST surface a one-line "about to run X — confirm?" before execution:

• rm -rf of anything outside /tmp or node_modules
• git push --force, git reset --hard, git checkout -- ., git branch -D
• DROP, TRUNCATE, DELETE SQL without a narrow WHERE
• kubectl delete, terraform destroy, wrangler delete
• vercel rm, supabase db reset, stripe products archive (bulk)
• Cron / /schedule deletions in bulk
• Any npm publish, gh release create, or git tag that targets a published version

The confirmation prompt restates the exact target and the blast radius. "About to delete the prod_subscribers table (47,318 rows). Confirm with 'yes-delete-prod_subscribers' to proceed."

In production mode the confirmation MUST be the exact target string typed back — not a generic "yes". This is the single biggest reduction in fat-finger incidents per session.

Edit perimeter

For complex debugging sessions where a side-fix in an unrelated file would create noise, the user may set an edit perimeter — a directory the session is allowed to modify. Edits outside the perimeter are refused with a one-line "outside perimeter: <path>. Set a wider perimeter or remove the constraint."

Command	Effect
/money-ops perimeter <path>	Lock edits to that subtree
/money-ops perimeter (no arg)	Show current perimeter
/money-ops perimeter clear	Remove the perimeter

The perimeter is session-scoped, not persistent — a new conversation starts with no perimeter.

Panic stop

If something is going wrong and the user wants every autonomous behavior to halt immediately, the panic command stops all scheduled agents, all /loop runs, and all in-flight outreach batches owned by this project:

/money-ops stop

It does NOT roll back anything that already shipped — that's /money-product rollback territory. It just stops the next cycle from firing. Use this when:

• An outreach sequence is hitting the wrong segment
• A scheduled deployment is being canary-flagged repeatedly
• Stripe webhooks are erroring in a loop and creating noise
• The user is just done for the day and wants everything quiet

After a panic stop, /money-ops resume brings scheduled agents back online — but only after the user types resume explicitly. No accidental restarts.

Setup Wizard

When the user types /money-ops for the first time:

1. Audit current state — What skills have been run? What's already set up?
2. Select operations — Which operations does the user want automated?
3. Pick operating mode — open / staging / production (see above)
4. Configure schedule — Set timezone and preferred hours
5. Set up monitoring — Configure health checks and alert channels
6. Test run — Execute each operation once to verify it works
7. Activate — Start the autonomous schedule

Provisioned Infrastructure

We provision all operational infrastructure so the user just approves:

• Scheduled agents via Claude Code /schedule — configured automatically
• Email service (SendGrid) for automated outreach — provisioned
• Monitoring — health checks, uptime, alert thresholds — configured
• Logging — all operations produce structured logs

The user only needs to set their timezone and approve the schedule. Everything else is handled.

Principles

• Reliable over clever — Simple cron jobs beat complex orchestration
• Fail safely — If an operation fails, log it and skip, don't cascade
• Observable — Every operation must produce a log entry
• Gradual autonomy — Start with human-in-the-loop, automate as trust builds
• Cost-aware — Track API costs and token usage per operation
• Provision everything — User approves, we execute. Minimize their decisions
• Concrete deliverables — End with "Tomorrow's first ops action: [specific task]"