Resume Watchdog Audit

The watchdog-watchdog — one read-only pass that proves the resume watchdog (the n¹ layer that revives dead autonomous Claude sessions) is itself ALIVE, TICKING, and reviving PRODUCTIVE instances, versus silently STALLED. Distrusts self-report: reads the live Fleet registry ledgers (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Fleet\registry), the scheduled-task exit codes AND each task's Principal.LogonType, never the watchdog's own "I'm fine". Verifies the n² layer (is the watchdog ticking, is its backlog draining, are resumes witnessed as real transcript turns, or merely launched_unproven) and the n³ layer (is THIS audit itself scheduled/looped and orthogonal to the failure it detects — who watches the watchman's watchman). Turnkey entry point: tools\watchdog_watchdog_audit.ps1 (read-only, emits GREEN/AMBER/RED + exit 0/2/3). Catches the exact failure this repo hit on 2026-07-09: after a boot the watchdog drained the backlog, then every scheduled task with Principal.LogonType=Interactive began returning 0x800710E0 ("operator or administrator refused the request") on this RDP/headless box while S4U siblings stayed 0x0 — an 11-task outage of the whole safety net, leaving resumes launched-but-unproven. CORRECTED ROOT CAUSE: the discriminator is LogonType (Interactive dies, S4U survives), NOT the conhost launch shim (that theory was empirically disproved — the watchdog kept failing after conhost was removed). Read-only by default; the S4U migration + live drain are operator/elevation-gated. Use after a crash/reboot, when sessions look stuck, or on a /loop cadence as the standing meta-watchdog.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/resume-watchdog-audit
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/resume-watchdog-audit/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/resume-watchdog-audit/SKILL.md

@misc{resume-watchdog-audit-2026,
  author    = {anthony-chaudhary},
  title     = {Resume Watchdog Audit [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/resume-watchdog-audit/}
}