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News watch
Follow one topic on a news site, at almost no cost. You want to know when something is published about one specific topic — without reading the whole site every hour. A job can watch for you, and it costs almost nothing while nothing is happening.
You say — once
~/work ❯ › "watch FT headlines and keep anything about chip export controls"
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01 · Check every 15 minutes
A job fetches the headlines. A cheap comparison first checks whether anything changed since the last check. Only when something is new does the agent actually read it.
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02 · The schedule adjusts itself
If nothing relevant appears for days, the job slows down to once per hour by itself. The moment a matching story appears, it speeds back up to every 15 minutes.
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03 · Matches are collected in one file
Every matching story is added to a running file, with its source and time. You read it whenever you want.
What comes back — matching stories per day
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quiet days → interval widened · news → snapped back to 15m
What you get
- One file with every matching story, including source and timestamp
- Very low cost: the agent only reads when the headlines actually changed
- A check frequency that adapts to how often news appears
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