Canary Watch
affaan-m/ECC
A skill your agent uses to monitor and verify a deployed URL after releases — checks HTTP endpoints, SSE streams, static assets, console errors, and performance regressions after deploys, merges, or…
Check a web page or feed for something worth telling the user about, remembering what was already reported so nothing repeats.
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Install Source Watch
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install amd/gaia source-watch --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/source-watch .claude/skills/source-watch && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "source-watch" agent skill from https://github.com/amd/gaia/tree/main/hub/skills/source-watch into .claude/skills/source-watch/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "source-watch", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/amd/gaia/tree/main/hub/skills/source-watchType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install amd/gaia source-watch --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/source-watch .agents/skills/source-watch && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "source-watch" agent skill from https://github.com/amd/gaia/tree/main/hub/skills/source-watch into .agents/skills/source-watch/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "source-watch", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install amd/gaia source-watch --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/source-watch .cursor/skills/source-watch && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "source-watch" agent skill from https://github.com/amd/gaia/tree/main/hub/skills/source-watch into .cursor/skills/source-watch/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "source-watch", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/amd/gaia.git --path hub/skills/source-watch--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install amd/gaia source-watch --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/source-watch .gemini/skills/source-watch && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "source-watch" agent skill from https://github.com/amd/gaia/tree/main/hub/skills/source-watch into .gemini/skills/source-watch/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "source-watch", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install amd/gaia source-watchInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/source-watch .github/skills/source-watch && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "source-watch" agent skill from https://github.com/amd/gaia/tree/main/hub/skills/source-watch into .github/skills/source-watch/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "source-watch", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install amd/gaia source-watch --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amd/gaia.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/hub/skills/source-watch .opencode/skills/source-watch && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "source-watch" agent skill from https://github.com/amd/gaia/tree/main/hub/skills/source-watch into .opencode/skills/source-watch/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "source-watch", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
source-watch- GitHub stars
- 1.6k
- Token cost
- ~698 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 353 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 44
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Check a web page or feed for something worth telling the user about, remembering what was already reported so nothing repeats.
- Works in 6 steps: Recall what was already reported. → Fetch the source. fetch_page(url). If… → Extract the candidate items. Titles,… → …
- The user asks to watch
- SKILL.md covers Configure, Procedure, Honest limits and Fork this
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Source Watch is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Check a web page or feed for something worth telling the user about, remembering what was already reported so nothing repeats. Use when the user asks to watch, monitor, or check a URL for changes, new items, or a condition being met.
Its SKILL.md is about 700 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: Build AI agents for your PC. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The user asks to watch
- Check a URL for changes
- A condition being met
Example prompts
- “/source-watch”
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Recall what was already reported.
- Fetch the source. fetch_page(url). If the fetch fails, report the
- Extract the candidate items. Titles, versions, prices, listings —
- Apply the match, then drop every item whose identifier already appeared in
- Report or stay quiet. If nothing new matched, say "no new matches" in one
- Record what you reported.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6c3bb5c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Source Watch loads about 698 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 353 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from amd/gaia at commit 6c3bb5c, republished under its MIT licence (© amd). 353 words, ~698 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/source-watch/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- source-watch
- description
- Check a web page or feed for something worth telling the user about, remembering what was already reported so nothing repeats. Use when the user asks to watch, monitor, or check a URL for changes, new items, or a condition being met.
- license
- MIT
- version
- 1.0.0
Source Watch
The generic watcher. Fetch a source, decide whether anything matches, suppress what was already reported, and say something only when there is news. Every other watcher in this pack is a fork of this one.
Configure
The user supplies these; ask for any that are missing before the first run.
| Setting | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Source | The URL to fetch | https://example.com/releases |
| Match | What counts as interesting | "any version above 3.0" |
| Memory key | Where seen items are recorded | watch:example-releases |
Procedure
- Recall what was already reported.
recall(query="<memory key>", limit=50). This is what stops the watcher telling the user the same thing every run. - Fetch the source.
fetch_page(url). If the fetch fails, report the failure and stop — an empty page is not "no news", and treating it as such is how a watcher silently dies. - Extract the candidate items. Titles, versions, prices, listings — whatever the source is a list of. Keep a stable identifier per item so step 4 can compare across runs.
- Apply the match, then drop every item whose identifier already appeared in step 1.
- Report or stay quiet. If nothing new matched, say "no new matches" in one line. Do not pad a quiet run into a paragraph.
- Record what you reported.
remember(fact="<memory key>: <identifier> — <one-line summary>", category="fact")for each new item, so the next run suppresses it.
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Honest limits
- This runs when you ask it to. GAIA's scheduler can run a recurring
prompt (
gaia schedule add --cron ... --prompt ...), but it cannot yet run a skill on a schedule —--skillis rejected at creation time. Until that is wired, "watching" means you invoke the skill and it checks. - Step 1 and step 6 need memory enabled. If the
recall/remembertools are absent, the watcher still works but repeats itself every run — say so rather than pretending it de-duplicated. - Fetch only pages you are allowed to poll, and do not hammer a source.
Fork this
Copy the directory, rename it and its name field, then specialize step 3
(what an item is) and step 4 (what counts as interesting). price-watch in this
pack is exactly that fork.
© amd, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in hub/skills/source-watch of amd/gaia.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6c3bb5c
Compare with similar skills
Source Watch next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source Watch this skillamd/gaia | 1.6k | — | ~698 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Canary Watchaffaan-m/ECC | 274k | 1 repos | ~770 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Canary Watchaffaan-m/ECC | 274k | — | ~405 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Canary Watchaffaan-m/ECC | 274k | — | ~414 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Watchtaoufik123-collab/claude-watch | 930 | — | ~5.8k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | |
| Feedsalsk1992/CloddsBot | 2.9k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Source Watch
What does Source Watch do?
Check a web page or feed for something worth telling the user about, remembering what was already reported so nothing repeats. Source Watch is an agent skill from amd/gaia. Check a web page or feed for something worth telling the user about, remembering what was already reported so nothing repeats.
When should I use Source Watch?
Source Watch fits situations like: the user asks to watch; check a URL for changes; A condition being met.
How do I install Source Watch in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/source-watch in amd/gaia) into .claude/skills/source-watch in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Source Watch in Codex?
Run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (hub/skills/source-watch in amd/gaia) into .agents/skills/source-watch in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Source Watch in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add amd/gaia --skill source-watch -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/source-watch, .gemini/skills/source-watch, .github/skills/source-watch and .opencode/skills/source-watch in your project.
What does Source Watch need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Source Watch is instructions for the agent only.
Does Source Watch access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Source Watch safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Source Watch use?
Source Watch is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Source Watch use?
About 698 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Source Watch?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Source Watch: Canary Watch (affaan-m/ECC, 274k stars), Canary Watch (affaan-m/ECC, 274k stars), Canary Watch (affaan-m/ECC, 274k stars) and Watch (taoufik123-collab/claude-watch, 930 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Source Watch?
amd (a GitHub organization) maintains it in amd/gaia, which has 1,580 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: amd/gaia on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.