Competitor Watch
What does Competitor Watch do?
Tracks competitor pricing, product, and hiring pages and briefs you on real changes. Starts from a list of URLs you paste. It comes with 4 saved memories, 4 skills and 2 opt-in routines, and works with Slack and Notion.
What the bot knows before your first chat. Your setup answers are added to it.
- I keep a short list of your competitors under watch on the public web and only flag the changes that matter to a founder, PM, marketer, or sales lead. I don't do general research, I never go behind a login, and I never invent a price, quote, or date. Every claim I make carries a source link. I talk plain and lead with what changed, then why it matters. One question at a time, no filler. I show a real result within a minute, never "on it" and silence. My skills cover the watch list, page diffs, the weekly brief, and pricing comparisons. I draft by default and never post, send, or publish without your yes. I say so when I'm working from partial data. My weekly brief and daily launch check stay off until you turn them on, and they run in your timezone.
- Competitor Watch tracks a short list of competitors on the public web, diffs their pricing, product, positioning, and hiring pages against the copy saved on the last run, and reports only the changes that matter. Every claim carries a source URL.
- Asks during setup: company, own site, competitors, material bar, timezone, brief day and hour, brief destination.
- The watch list is the source of truth for who is tracked, and a diff always compares against the newest snapshot.
- Build the watch listUse when the user first names competitors, adds or drops one, or asks who you are tracking.
- Competitor page diffUse when you need to find what changed across the watch list since the last run, on demand or from a routine.
- Weekly competitor briefUse when the user asks for a competitor brief, or when the weekly brief routine runs.
- Pricing and packaging comparisonUse when the user asks how their pricing compares, or after a competitor changes prices, plans, or limits.
Nothing runs on a schedule unless you say yes. After setup the bot offers each routine once.
- Weekly competitor briefEvery Monday morning, diffs the pages on the watch list against the last snapshot and delivers a brief of what changed with a source link on every line.Offered on opt-in
- Daily launch checkEach weekday morning, checks changelog, release note, and blog pages across the watch list and speaks up only when a competitor ships something.Offered on opt-in
- SlackPost the weekly brief to a channel you choose.
- NotionKeep the watch list and every brief where your team reads.
How do I install Competitor Watch in Hermes Agent?
Install the Bot Installer once, then download Competitor Watch and tell Hermes: “Use bot-installer to install competitor-watch from the Downloads folder.” It works in the Hermes desktop app, mobile app or Terminal, and creates a new bot profile on the AI connection you already have.
Before you start
- Hermes Agent 0.22.5 or newer. New to Hermes? Install Hermes Agent first. Check your version with
hermes --versionand update withhermes update. - An AI connection in Hermes. The bot uses the one you already set up.
- On a phone? The .zip saves to your phone (iPhone: the Files app, in Downloads; Android: the Downloads folder). Hermes installs bots from the Downloads folder of the computer it runs on, so download the bot on that computer, or move the .zip into its Downloads folder, then send the line below from the Hermes app.
First time? Install the Bot Installer
First time only. In the Terminal, run:
hermes skills install https://agentplaybooks.dev/skills/bot-installer/SKILL.mdOr type this in a Hermes chat: /skills install https://agentplaybooks.dev/skills/bot-installer/SKILL.md --yes. It installs one skill, bot-installer, from agentplaybooks.dev. Already have it? Update it with hermes skills update bot-installer. Or download bot-installer.zip (8 KB) to read it first.
- Download the bot. Download Competitor Watch as a .zip file. No need to unzip it. Download .zip (competitor-watch.zip, 20 KB)
- Tell Hermes:
Use bot-installer to install competitor-watch from the Downloads folder.
Optional add-ons
Competitor Watch works without these. Add one after the bot is installed, when you want it.
Linear
Turns a competitor move from your brief into a Linear issue in your product backlog, with the source link on it. Setup uses your own Linear API key, and it never creates an issue without asking.
- Install Competitor Watch first. Use the steps above.
- Download the add-on. Download .zip (competitor-watch-linear.zip, 2 KB)
- In a Competitor Watch chat, tell Hermes:
Install the skill in competitor-watch-linear.zip from my Downloads folder into this profile, then walk me through its setup.
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