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🔁 Update your self-hosted app safely
Each day the AI checks for a new stable version of an app you host yourself, waits a few days, makes a backup, updates, and rolls back if anything looks wrong.
Use it when: You run your own copy of a tool and keep falling behind on updates, but fear breaking it.
🛑 Stops when: Each run ends with a good update, a rollback, or 'no update needed'.
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Each day, check the official release page for [app]. Only consider stable releases that are at least [72] hours old. Skip test versions and big version jumps; tell me about those instead. Before updating: make a fresh backup of the data and confirm it arrived in [backup location]. If the backup fails, stop. Then update, and run these checks: [app starts, home page loads, one key feature works]. If any check fails, roll back to the previous version and tell me. Never restore the data backup by yourself; that's my call. Send me a one-line result. Stop after one update attempt per day.
Review every change the agent makes before you keep it. Set a budget or round limit — the prompt includes one.
Found on X · by @fabianschierz. Prompt rewritten in plain English by FixKit AI.
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