content-monitor

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Monitor web pages for changes and extract updated content with scheduling support.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS/blob/HEAD/resources/skills/content-monitor/SKILL.md

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Content Monitor

Purpose

Monitor web pages for changes and extract updated content with scheduling support.

Routing

Use when: Use when the user wants to monitor a webpage for changes, track content updates, or set up recurring content checks.
Do not use when: Don't use for one-time scraping where web-scraper skill is more appropriate.
Outputs: Content snapshot with timestamp for comparison, optionally scheduled for recurring checks.
Success criteria: Captures a clean content snapshot that can be compared with future scrapes to detect changes.

Trigger Examples

Positive

Use the content-monitor skill for this request.
Help me with content monitor.
Use when the user wants to monitor a webpage for changes, track content updates, or set up recurring content checks.
Content Monitor: provide an actionable result.

Negative

Don't use for one-time scraping where web-scraper skill is more appropriate.
Do not use content-monitor for unrelated requests.
This request is outside content monitor scope.
This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
url	string	Yes	URL to monitor for changes
selector	string	No	CSS selector for the section to monitor (optional)

Runtime Prompt

Current runtime prompt length: 997 characters.
Runtime prompt is defined directly in ../content-monitor.json.