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Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds via blogwatcher-cli tool.

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# Blogwatcher

Track blog and RSS/Atom feed updates with the `blogwatcher-cli` tool. Supports automatic feed discovery, HTML scraping fallback, OPML import, and read/unread article management.

## Working with Hermes tools (read this first)

`blogwatcher-cli` is the feed database; Hermes tools do the automation around it:

- **Recurring watch — use the cronjob tool's `monitor` field, not a bare schedule.** `monitor` runs a script each tick and only wakes the agent when output changes: set it to a script that runs `blogwatcher-cli scan >/dev/null 2>&1 && blogwatcher-cli articles` (deterministic output; new articles = changed output = agent wakes with the diff injected). Unchanged ticks cost zero LLM calls. Set `deliver` to route digests to a chat/channel; add `continuity: true` so consecutive digests can dedupe.
- **Reading an article the user asks about**: `web_extract([url])` on the article URL from `blogwatcher-cli articles` — do not re-scrape by hand.
- **One-off "watch this page for changes" without feed semantics**: skip this skill; the cronjob tool's `monitor` field accepts an http(s) URL directly.
- **One-off read of a feed or a site's latest posts, nothing to install**: the bundled `rss-feeds` skill (`scripts/feed.py read URL`); blogwatcher earns its install when you track many feeds with read/unread state.
- **Company/competitor tracking with analysis and citations**: prefer the `competitor-news-monitor` skill; blogwatcher is the lighter raw-feed layer it can sit on.
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