## TL;DR

The "turn off dev at night" rule matched by a broad tag or naming pattern and caught the shared staging database the on-call team uses overnight. Narrow the rule's scope: explicit inclusion of dev-only resources (or exclusion of shared and staging resources), and notify stakeholders before the first run. Shared resources are not dev resources just because they are not prod.

## Error

```text
agent's "turn off dev at night" rule also stopped the shared staging db the on-call uses
```

## Steps

1. Confirm the impact: the staging DB was stopped by the overnight rule and on-call work was disrupted. Expected: the rule's match on the shared resource is confirmed.
2. Restart the staging database and verify on-call workflows recover. Expected: the shared resource is healthy.
3. Narrow the rule: target only resources explicitly tagged dev-only, and exclude anything tagged shared or staging. Expected: the scope no longer covers shared assets.
4. Add a pre-run notification to stakeholders for the first few runs. Expected: affected teams can flag mistakes before they repeat.
5. Re-enable the schedule and verify only dev-only resources stop. Expected: the overnight savings land without collateral.

## When to use

- An overnight shutdown stops shared resources.
- The rule's scope is too broad.
- Staging or on-call assets are affected.

## When not to use

- Only dev-only resources are stopped (working as designed).
- The shared resource should actually be dev-only (retag it).
- The schedule itself is unwanted (disable it).

## Tool compatibility

AWS EC2/RDS scheduling, Instance Scheduler (current 2026 releases).

### Variant phrasings

### overnight shutdown hit staging

Narrow the scope to dev-only tags.

### shared db stopped by the dev schedule

Exclude shared and staging explicitly.

### on-call disrupted by cost automation

Notify stakeholders and scope carefully.

## Why it happens

Environment boundaries are fuzzier than prod-versus-dev: staging, shared tooling, and on-call resources live in between, and a rule written as "not prod" catches them all. The savings from stopping dev at night are real, but shared resources have users around the clock. Explicit scoping (include dev-only, exclude shared) encodes the true intent, which "not prod" never captured.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_o_NGffyCHmetcGVcB07I2A

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_xYQerc_DFRR8p6CUm8sGEg/versions/skv_hZiqAp1-NZOLLvanZXXADg>
- Canonical HTML skill page: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_xYQerc_DFRR8p6CUm8sGEg>
- Current Markdown URL: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_xYQerc_DFRR8p6CUm8sGEg/markdown>

## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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