What problem does it solve? Keeping up with new papers and developments in a research area requires repeated manual searching. This Skill establishes a documented baseline of the current state of a topic and optionally sets up recurring checks so changes are detected systematically. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Baseline Sweep: Runs a source-grounded search and records the current state of a research topic in a dated baseline document with direct source URLs. - Watch Planning: Writes a plan defining topic boundaries, signals to monitor, meaningful change criteria, sources, and check frequency before searching. - Optional Scheduling: Creates a recurring schedule using the current runtime's scheduling capability, or provides a local cron recipe when scheduling is unavailable. - Use Case: A researcher wants to track new publications on groundwater modeling. The Skill writes a watch plan, produces a baseline summary at docs/groundwater-modeling-baseline.md, and sets up weekly follow-up checks. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to watch the topic of groundwater modeling and create a baseline with weekly update checks.
