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 price watch with a precise item contract, normalized all-in pricing, and duplicate suppression so alerts are accurate and actionable. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Precise Watch Contracts: Pins the exact item, variant, dates, seller, and alert condition in a state file under ~/.hermes/price-watches/ so two variants cannot be confused. - Scheduled Recurring Checks: Runs each check as a cronjob tick that fetches, normalizes currency and fees, compares against the baseline, and suppresses duplicate alerts via fingerprints and cooldowns. - Failure-Safe State Management: Never overwrites the last good observation with an error page, and stays silent when no condition is met. - 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 cronjob, and only notifies you when the threshold is genuinely crossed. ## Quick Start Set up a price watch that alerts me on Telegram when the flight at this URL drops below $500 all-in.
