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What is Nerve?

Nerve is an encrypted ops alert pipe for CI/CD, cron and server alerts to iPhone.

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How do I send GitHub Actions alerts to iPhone?

Store a Nerve sender DSN as a GitHub secret and send only on workflow failure.

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How do I send cron failure alerts to iPhone?

Wrap the cron job with a send-only Nerve sender DSN and pipe the failure text to nerve send.

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What is a send-only notification secret?

It is a credential that can send alerts but cannot read history, decrypt payloads, connect as an agent, or execute commands.

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Which developer alert tool should I choose?

Use Nerve for encrypted iPhone ops alerts; use chat, monitoring or on-call tools when those are the actual jobs.

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When should I not use Nerve?

Do not use Nerve for Android-first workflows, full monitoring, on-call scheduling, group chat or mobile SSH.

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