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RunVouch vs Dead Man's Snitch
Dead Man's Snitch is a heartbeat monitor: your job checks in, and you hear about it when it does not. RunVouch keeps the heartbeat and adds what the job did and what it cost.
| Dead Man's Snitch | RunVouch | |
|---|---|---|
| Missed check-in alerts | yes | yes |
| Failure with stderr excerpt | via the snitch CLI wrapper | yes, automatic with rv run |
| Evidence the task was done | no | yes, file / URL / assertion |
| Retry-storm (loop) detection | no | yes |
| Cost and token caps | no | yes, per run and per day |
| Output/duration drift | no | yes |
| Claude Code plugin / MCP server | no | yes |
| Self-host | no | yes (MIT) |
| Price | free for one snitch; paid plans | free 3 agents; $9 / $29 |
When to use which
If all you need is "did the cron check in", Dead Man's Snitch has done that reliably for years. If the job is an agent, the check-in is the least interesting fact about it.