source-command-track-mentions

To track online mentions across articles and social media, this Skill automates cross-source discovery on platforms like Reddit, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and YouTube, then records the results in a YAML tracker. It uses Perplexity-based deep research with WebSearch fallbacks to find new mentions.

The best way to automate tracking web mentions into YAML is running the track-mentions command, which executes a multi-step workflow to scan diverse sources, apply URL normalization, deduplicate results, and append new entries directly to your mentions.yaml file.

Yes, you can use Perplexity and WebSearch fallbacks for automated web research. The Skill implements a multi-step workflow that uses Perplexity-based deep research as the primary method, automatically falling back to WebSearch to ensure comprehensive mention discovery.

Deduplication when updating a YAML mentions tracker works by applying URL normalization to standardize web links before comparison. The Skill automatically filters out duplicate entries and existing records, ensuring only new, unique mentions are appended to the tracker.

Yes, the mentions tracker explicitly excludes the guide's own pages from search results. While scanning diverse sources like articles, blogs, newsletters, and GitHub issues, the workflow filters out self-referential URLs to track only external mentions.