Agent skill · nousresearch
competitor-news-monitor
Watch named companies for material news; cited digests.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Competitor News Monitor Track a declared company set and report only material, new developments with primary-source evidence. This is not a generic page-diff watcher: it applies company-news categories, source hierarchy, event deduplication, and business significance. Setup runs once in the foreground; the recurring check runs as a cronjob tick (the competitor-watch automation blueprint scaffolds this). When to Use "Monitor these competitors weekly." "Tell me when Company X changes pricing or launches a product." "Create a competitor intelligence digest." "Track funding, partnerships, executive moves, and incidents." A cron tick fires for an existing competitor watch (steps 3-6). Don't use for: one-off company research (use websearch/webextract directly) or plain feed reading (blogwatcher). Procedure — Setup (foreground, once) 1. Freeze the watchlist Record canonical company names, domains, products, aliases, geography/language, event categories, cadence, audience, and materiality threshold. Done when a candidate article can be accepted or rejected consistently. 2. Build source coverage, then schedule For each company include, where available: 1. official newsroom/blog and changelog 2. pricing/product pages 3. regulatory filings and investor relations 4. status/security pages 5. reputable trade and financial press 6. job postings as weak supporting evidence Use rss-feeds (optional) or blogwatcher (optional, stateful) for feeds, reddit-reading for community discussion, and websearch/webextract for pages. Write the watch contract (watchlist, categories, materiality threshold, last cutoff) to a state file under ~/.hermes/competitor-watches/<watch-slug>.json, then create the job: Done when each requested event category has at least one intended primary source or a documented gap, and the job exists. Procedure — Tick (each scheduled run) 3. Collect incrementally Search from the last successful cutoff with overlap for late indexing. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills nousresearch/competitor-news-monitor