Blogwatcher

by HezaoHezao

Blogwatcher is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by HezaoHezao in poirot.

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Install Blogwatcher

Copy Blogwatcher into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/HezaoHezao/poirot/tree/master/poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/research/blogwatcher ~/.claude/skills/blogwatcher

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/HezaoHezao/poirot.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/research/blogwatcher/SKILL.md in HezaoHezao/poirot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/blogwatcher
Collection: One of 37 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Blogwatcher does

Monitor blogs and RSS/Atom feeds using blogwatcher-cli. Supports automatic feed discovery, OPML import/export, and read/unread article tracking for daily updates.

Blogwatcher is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Blogwatcher comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-memory, agent-skill, agent-skills and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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.

Prerequisites

blogwatcher-cli must be installed. Pick one method:

# Go install
go install github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/cmd/blogwatcher-cli@latest

# Binary (Linux amd64)
curl -sL https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases/latest/download/blogwatcher-cli_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz -C /usr/local/bin blogwatcher-cli

# Docker
docker run --rm -v blogwatcher-cli:/data ghcr.io/julientant/blogwatcher-cli scan

All releases: https://github.com/JulienTant/blogwatcher-cli/releases

Verify installation:

blogwatcher-cli --version

When to Use

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Blogwatcher

What else does HezaoHezao publish alongside Blogwatcher?
Blogwatcher is one of 37 skills that DirSkills catalogs from HezaoHezao/poirot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Review, ArXiv Research and Architecture Diagram. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Blogwatcher does, and is maintained by HezaoHezao in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the HezaoHezao/poirot page.
How does Blogwatcher compare to other Automation skills?
Blogwatcher ranks #1382 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Blogwatcher against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.