Use case

Host a Discord bot that does not go offline

A Discord bot keeps a connection open to Discord all day. It needs a process that is allowed to run for weeks, with somewhere to keep its data.

The problem

Serverless platforms cannot hold a gateway connection open, and shared free hosts stop idle processes.

What NeverHalt gives you

• Restarts itself

  If the process crashes it is started again automatically. Restarts that loop too fast are held back and the log says why.

• A disk that survives restarts

  Every agent gets its own /app/data folder. SQLite files, checkpoints and caches are still there after a crash, a redeploy or a restart.

• You see what it does

  Live logs, plus an activity log of AI calls, tool calls and errors with token counts and cost.

• Secrets stay secret

  API keys are encrypted at rest and injected into the process. Your real AI key can stay with NeverHalt and never enter the agent.

Run mode

execution_mode: daemon
main_file: bot.py        # or index.js for discord.js

Questions

Python or Node?

Both. Python 3.11 and Node 20 are included, with the packages from your requirements.txt or package.json installed at deploy.

What if the bot freezes without crashing?

If the agent uses the heartbeat helper and goes silent, NeverHalt treats that as a stall and restarts it. Without a heartbeat only crashes are detected.