source-watch

name	source-watch
description	Check a web page or feed for something worth telling the user about, remembering what was already reported so nothing repeats. Use when the user asks to watch, monitor, or check a URL for changes, new items, or a condition being met.
license	MIT
version	1.0.0
metadata	{"gaia":{"security_tier":"community","permissions":["network:read"],"tools_required":["fetch_page","recall","remember"],"provenance":{"source":"starter-pack"}}}

Source Watch

The generic watcher. Fetch a source, decide whether anything matches, suppress what was already reported, and say something only when there is news. Every other watcher in this pack is a fork of this one.

Configure

The user supplies these; ask for any that are missing before the first run.

Setting	Meaning	Example
Source	The URL to fetch	https://example.com/releases
Match	What counts as interesting	"any version above 3.0"
Memory key	Where seen items are recorded	watch:example-releases

Procedure

1. Recall what was already reported. recall(query="<memory key>", limit=50). This is what stops the watcher telling the user the same thing every run.
2. Fetch the source. fetch_page(url). If the fetch fails, report the failure and stop — an empty page is not "no news", and treating it as such is how a watcher silently dies.
3. Extract the candidate items. Titles, versions, prices, listings — whatever the source is a list of. Keep a stable identifier per item so step 4 can compare across runs.
4. Apply the match, then drop every item whose identifier already appeared in step 1.
5. Report or stay quiet. If nothing new matched, say "no new matches" in one line. Do not pad a quiet run into a paragraph.
6. Record what you reported. remember(fact="<memory key>: <identifier> — <one-line summary>", category="fact") for each new item, so the next run suppresses it.

Honest limits

• This runs when you ask it to. GAIA's scheduler can run a recurring prompt (gaia schedule add --cron ... --prompt ...), but it cannot yet run a skill on a schedule — --skill is rejected at creation time. Until that is wired, "watching" means you invoke the skill and it checks.
• Step 1 and step 6 need memory enabled. If the recall / remember tools are absent, the watcher still works but repeats itself every run — say so rather than pretending it de-duplicated.
• Fetch only pages you are allowed to poll, and do not hammer a source.

Fork this

Copy the directory, rename it and its name field, then specialize step 3 (what an item is) and step 4 (what counts as interesting). price-watch in this pack is exactly that fork.