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Enhancing our API for better agentic consumption

AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex are becoming a real part of developer workflows. They don't just write code, they call APIs, interpret responses, and take action based on what they find. That means the quality of your API responses directly affects how useful an agent can be. We've shipped a series of improvements to the Oh Dear API with this in mind. Every change helps humans too, but we specifically optimized for how agents consume and reason about data.

An Oh Dear skill for use in Claude Code or Codex

AI coding agents are getting good at calling tools. Claude Code, Codex, and others can run shell commands, parse JSON, and reason about the results. But they need to know what tools are available and how to use them. That's what skills are for. A skill is a small package of documentation that teaches an AI agent how to use a specific tool. We've built one for Oh Dear.

Fixing a production error with the Flare CLI and AI, from discovery to deploy

Using the Flare CLI and its agent skill to find, fix, and resolve a production error without leaving the terminal. The AI agent looks up the latest error on freek.dev via the Flare CLI, analyzes the stack trace against the local source code, generates a fix, deploys it using bash mode, and marks the error as resolved in Flare. Learn more.

AI performance reviews for your app with the Flare CLI

The Flare CLI connects to your Flare performance monitoring data and uses AI to turn it into actionable insights, right from your terminal. In this video, you'll see how a single command pulls your real performance data from Flare, then generates a full review: identifying slow endpoints, spotting error trends, and suggesting concrete fixes. Links.

DNS blocklist monitoring now available to all Oh Dear users

Your domain is on a spam blocklist. Password reset emails aren't arriving, order confirmations land in spam, and customers are complaining that "your site doesn't work." By the time you hear about it, the damage has been building for days. We've shipped DNS blocklist monitoring to catch this early. Oh Dear now checks your domain against 11 major blocklists and notifies you the moment you're listed, with direct links to get removed.

SQL performance improvements: automatic detection & regression testing (part 3)

This is the final part of our 3-part series on SQL performance improvements. In part 1, we covered how to identify slow queries. In part 2, we explored how to fix them with indexes. In this post, we'll share how we prevent those performance issues from ever reaching production again. A few weeks ago, we massively improved the performance of the dashboard & website by optimizing our SQL queries.