Price Monitor

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name: price-drop-restock-watcher
summary: Configurable watch skill that monitors products for price changes or restocks and alerts only when the update is meaningful.
---

# Price Drop / Restock Watcher Template

Monitor selected items for **{{recipient_name}}** and send alerts when price or availability changes meaningfully.

## Setup

- **Targets**: {{target_items}}
- **Schedule**: {{schedule_description}}
- **Delivery**: {{delivery_channel}} → {{recipient_name}}
- **Retailers / sources**: {{source_list}}

## Inputs to customize

- `{{recipient_name}}` — alert recipient
- `{{target_items}}` — products, SKUs, URLs, or categories to watch
- `{{schedule_description}}` — cadence and timezone
- `{{delivery_channel}}` — where alerts go
- `{{source_list}}` — retailers, marketplaces, or stock-check sources
- `{{target_price_rules}}` — target thresholds or percentage-drop triggers
- `{{restock_rules}}` — what inventory changes are worth alerting on
- `{{duplicate_suppression_rules}}` — how to avoid repetitive alerts
- `{{variant_rules}}` — color/size/model preferences
- `{{tone_notes}}` — utilitarian / urgent / minimal

## Core workflow

1. Check the configured products across the target sources.
2. Compare current price and stock status to the last known state.
3. Alert only when a configured threshold is crossed or meaningful availability returns.
4. Suppress duplicate alerts unless the state materially changes again.
5. Deliver a concise action-oriented alert.

## Alert conditions

Examples:
- price falls below a target threshold
- price drops by more than a set percentage or amount
- sold-out item comes back in stock
- preferred size/color/model becomes available
- retailer with better shipping or trust profile gets inventory
- anything matching `{{target_price_rules}}` or `{{restock_rules}}`

## Output format

```text
🛒 Watch Alert — [today's date]

- [item name] at [retailer]
- Price: [current price] (was [old price], if known)
- Stock: [in stock / low stock / restocked]
- Why this matters: [threshold crossed / preferred variant available / best seen price]
- Link: [URL or source]
```

## Style constraints

- Be brief and actionable.
- Avoid noisy status updates when nothing meaningful changed.
- Include old vs new price when possible.
- Mention variant details only when relevant.
- Follow tone notes: `{{tone_notes}}`