| name | coverage-tracker-setup |
| description | Set up a lightweight Google Alerts-style coverage tracker for any number of keywords. Creates a tracker config with each keyword and what it actually means, then hands recurrence to the user's agent harness. |
| when_to_use | User wants to create, configure, or update coverage alerts, brand/company mention tracking, Google Alert-style monitoring, or keyword coverage tracking. Use this instead of newsjack-monitor-setup when the job is to track coverage of the user's own keywords rather than find newsjacking opportunities. |
Coverage Tracker Setup
This sets up a simple keyword tracker that the coverage-tracker skill runs for you. Think of it like a Google Alert: it watches for new coverage of the keywords you care about and tells you when something real shows up.
It is deliberately a different job from setting up newsjack monitoring. A coverage tracker answers "did my keyword get real coverage?" Newsjack monitoring (newsjack-monitor-setup) answers a bigger question: "can my company jump into a broader news story?" If the user wants the second one, use that skill instead.
Where you're running this
Two situations, and they change what you can finish here:
- You can save files and run commands (Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, or a similar setup with shell, file, and network access). Here you can do the whole thing: save the tracker, run it once, and hand the recurring schedule to your agent. Before you decide you can't run the CLI, check whether
newsjack is installed. It ships as a prebuilt, bundled binary — you do not need Go, a compiler, or any build/install step. Never look for a Go toolchain or tell the user they need a "Go environment" without checking first: run ; if that's not on , try the bundled location and use that full path everywhere if it works. The bundled binary is almost always already installed — verify, don't assume it's missing.