competitor-news-monitor

Monitor competitor companies for material news events and deliver cited digests.

Updated Sep 20, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/GreenyZA/neo-light --skill competitor-news-monitor-greenyza
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: competitor-news-monitor
Source: https://github.com/GreenyZA/neo-light/tree/main/.hermes-home/skills/research/competitor-news-monitor
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/GreenyZA/neo-light --skill competitor-news-monitor-greenyza

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Keeping track of competitor moves manually means scanning dozens of newsrooms, pricing pages, and press articles, and it is easy to miss a pricing change or double-count syndicated coverage of the same launch. This Skill automates recurring competitor intelligence by watching a declared company set and reporting only material, deduplicated developments backed by primary sources. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured watch contracts: Freeze a watchlist of companies, domains, aliases, event categories, cadence, and materiality thresholds in a state file so decisions stay consistent between runs. - Event deduplication and materiality scoring: Collapse syndicated stories and rewrites into single events, then score directness, source authority, novelty, and impact against your threshold. - Scheduled digests via cronjob: Run recurring checks on a schedule and receive a cited digest of funding rounds, product launches, pricing changes, executive moves, and incidents — or silence when nothing material happened. - Use Case: Ask to monitor five competitors weekly; the Skill builds source coverage from official newsrooms, changelogs, and regulatory filings, schedules a Monday cronjob, and delivers a digest where every event cites a primary source and appears exactly once. ## Quick Start Set up a weekly competitor watch for Acme Corp and Globex covering pricing changes, product launches, and funding news, and deliver the digest to me every Monday morning.

Frequently Asked Questions about competitor-news-monitor

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I monitor competitor news automatically?▼

Define a watchlist of companies with domains, aliases, and event categories, then let the Skill build source coverage from official newsrooms, changelogs, and filings. It schedules a cronjob that runs recurring checks and delivers a digest of material events with primary-source citations.

How to track competitor pricing and product changes?▼

Include each company's official pricing pages, product pages, and changelogs in the source coverage rather than relying on broad search alone. The recurring tick collects changes incrementally from the last cutoff and scores them against your materiality threshold.

What sources does competitor news monitoring use?▼

Coverage includes official newsrooms and blogs, changelogs, pricing and product pages, regulatory filings, investor relations, status and security pages, reputable trade and financial press, and job postings as weak supporting evidence.

Does it deduplicate syndicated coverage of the same announcement?▼

Yes, the tick collapses syndicated stories, rewrites, URL variants, and revised filings into one underlying event while keeping independently sourced corroboration attached. One announcement appears exactly once regardless of article count.

When should I not use a competitor news monitor?▼

Avoid it for one-off company research, where direct web search and extraction are faster, and for plain feed reading, which a blog watcher handles better. It is designed for recurring, threshold-based monitoring of a fixed company set.

What happens when a news source fails during a check?▼

A source failure is recorded as unknown coverage, never reported as no news. The cutoff only advances for successfully covered sources, so failed sources are retried rather than silently losing coverage.