What problem does it solve? Manually checking prices for products, flights, hotels, or tickets is repetitive and easy to forget, and naive alerts often fire on the wrong variant, pre-tax prices, or duplicate offers. This Skill sets up a persistent, scheduled price watch that normalizes all-in pricing and only alerts when a real condition is met. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Precise Watch Contracts: Pins the exact item, variant, dates, travelers, and terms so two similar listings cannot be confused, stored as a state file under ~/.hermes/price-watches/. - Scheduled Cron Ticks: Runs recurring checks via a cronjob that fetches, normalizes currency/fees/taxes, compares against the baseline, and suppresses duplicate alerts with cooldowns. - Failure-Safe State Handling: Failed fetches never overwrite the last known good observation, and alerts always include all-in price, source currency, timestamp, and source link. - Use Case: Ask to be alerted when a specific laptop drops below $1,000 all-in; the Skill verifies one live fetch, schedules a 6-hour check, and notifies you only when the threshold is genuinely crossed. ## Quick Start Set up a price watch that alerts me when the flight from New York to Tokyo on my dates drops below $500 all-in.
