I run a scheduled agent that writes and publishes DEV.to articles twice a day. Step 5 of its instructions has always said the same thing: write the log entry, commit the drafts, push. I've read that line a dozen times without questioning it.
This morning I actually checked what "commit the drafts" had been doing for the last month, across more than thirty published articles. The answer: nothing. Not once.
the check that should have happened on day one
The task instructions reference source files like drafts/scheduled-agent-shared-quota-no-memory.md and drafts/one-env-key-two-usernames.md in every log entry — real filenames, written by the agent, presumably sitting in the repo as a record of what was drafted before it got published. I went looking for one of them:
$ git log --all -- drafts/
