competitor-news-monitor

Monitor named companies for material news and deliver cited digests on a schedule.

Updated Sep 10, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/loteiron/ZeusAgent --skill competitor-news-monitor-loteiron
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: competitor-news-monitor
Source: https://github.com/loteiron/ZeusAgent/tree/main/skills/research/competitor-news-monitor
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/loteiron/ZeusAgent --skill competitor-news-monitor-loteiron

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Keeping up with competitor announcements manually means scanning dozens of sources and often missing pricing changes, launches, or funding events buried in syndicated coverage. This Skill tracks a declared company set on a recurring schedule and reports only material, deduplicated developments backed by primary-source evidence. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Watch Contracts: Freeze a watchlist of companies, domains, aliases, event categories, and a materiality threshold in a state file so decisions stay consistent between runs. - Scheduled Incremental Collection: Run as a cronjob tick that searches from the last successful cutoff, records source failures as coverage gaps, and deduplicates syndicated stories into single events. - Materiality-Scored Digests: Score each event on source authority, novelty, and business impact, then deliver a cited digest or stay silent when nothing material happened. - Use Case: Ask the agent to monitor five competitors weekly; it builds source coverage from newsrooms, pricing pages, and regulatory filings, schedules a Monday cronjob, and delivers a digest only when a real launch, pricing change, or executive move occurs. ## Quick Start Set up a weekly competitor watch for Acme Corp and Globex covering product launches, pricing changes, and funding news, and deliver a cited 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.

FAQPage Schema
How do I monitor competitor news automatically on a schedule?▼

Define a watchlist of companies with domains, aliases, and event categories, then let the Skill build source coverage and create a cronjob. Each scheduled tick collects news incrementally from the last cutoff and delivers a digest only when material events occur.

What sources are used for competitor intelligence tracking?▼

The Skill covers official newsrooms, blogs, changelogs, pricing and product pages, regulatory filings, investor relations, status and security pages, and reputable trade press. Job postings are included only as weak supporting evidence, never as proof of strategy.

How does competitor news deduplication work across syndicated articles?▼

Syndicated stories, rewrites, URL variants, and revised filings are collapsed into one underlying event, so a single announcement appears exactly once in the digest. Independently sourced corroboration stays attached to that event.

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

A source failure is recorded as unknown coverage, never reported as "no news." The collection cutoff only advances for successfully covered sources, so failed sources are retried on the next run instead of silently losing coverage.

When should I not use a competitor monitoring skill?▼

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 ongoing, threshold-based monitoring of a fixed company set.