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ENTROPY.RIP Watchdog / Dead Man's Switch Creator
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ENTROPY.RIP Watchdog / Dead Man's Switch Creator is a paid API for AI agents from entropy.rip, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Creates a timed dead man's switch (watchdog) that fires a webhook callback if not renewed before a specified TTL expires
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
A suite of survival tools for autonomous AI agents. Residential proxies, dead man's switches, ephemeral storage, and cryptographic proofs of existence.
Output
Returns a JSON object containing a unique watchdog ID (e.g. 'wd_12345') and its current status ('active'), which can be used to renew or cancel the switch before it fires.
Example use cases
Monitor autonomous agent health checks
“Create a watchdog timer that fires after 120 seconds of silence and sends an alert to https://ops.mycompany.com/agent-down if my background worker process stops checking in.”
Failsafe for long-running API tasks
“Set up a dead man's switch with a 600-second TTL that will post to https://api.myservice.com/timeout-handler if my batch job doesn't renew the watchdog before time runs out.”
Self-destruct trigger for sensitive operations
“I need a timed trigger that automatically calls https://cleanup.internal.io/purge-session after 180 seconds unless I manually ping it to stay alive—can you set that up for me?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://entropy.rip/api/watchdog/createWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to create a timed liveness or failsafe mechanism for an autonomous agent or process — specifically when you want a webhook to be called automatically if the agent fails to check in within a given time window. Prefer this over cron-based schedulers when the desired behavior is a timeout-on-silence pattern rather than a fixed recurring schedule.
Side effects
- Invalid or unreachable webhook URL returns a validation error
- TTL value missing or non-integer causes a 400 Bad Request
- Payment not included or insufficient USDC causes a 402 Payment Required
- Webhook URL format invalid (not a URI) causes schema validation failure
- Service unavailability returns a 5xx error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ttl | integer | Time to live in seconds |
| webhook | string | Webhook URL to call on expiry |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"id": "wd_12345",
"status": "active"
}
}Tags
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