watchers
Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup.
Install
npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent@watchersRuns in your terminal. Adds the skill globally for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others; add -g -y to skip prompts.
What it does
Watchers Poll external sources on an interval and react only to new items. Three ready-made scripts plus a shared watermark helper; wire them into a cron job (or run them ad-hoc from the terminal). When to Use - User wants to watch an RSS/Atom feed and be notified of new entries - User wants to watch a GitHub repo's issues / pulls / releases / commits - User wants to poll an arbitrary JSON endpoint and get notified on new items - User asks for "a watcher for X" or "notify me when X changes" Mental model A watcher is just a script that: 1. Fetches data from the external source 2. Compares…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
View source on GitHubBefore you install
Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.
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