NousResearch/hermes-agent

watchers

Poll RSS, JSON APIs, and GitHub with watermark dedup.

14 installs 240K starsUpdated Sep 3, 2026License: MIT

Install

npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent@watchers

Runs 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.

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Before 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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