Watch Command

Register a new watch that polls a trigger at regular intervals and executes a Claude prompt when the trigger fires.

Usage

/claude-watcher:watch npm-publish lodash 4.18.0 "Lodash 4.18.0 is out! Update this project's dependencies."
/claude-watcher:watch gh-pr-merged facebook/react 12345 "PR #12345 was merged. Rebase our feature branch on main."
/claude-watcher:watch my-trigger arg1 arg2 "The condition was met. Check the results."

Instructions

Parse $ARGUMENTS to extract:

1. trigger - The first word (trigger name)
2. params - All words between the trigger and the quoted prompt
3. prompt - The quoted string at the end (the action prompt)

Use the register_watch MCP tool to create the watch with:

• trigger: The extracted trigger name
• params: Array of extracted parameters
• action.prompt: The extracted prompt (supports {{variable}} interpolation from trigger output)
• action.cwd: Current working directory (use the user's cwd)
• ttl: Default to "48h" unless the user specifies otherwise
• interval: Default to "30s" unless the user specifies otherwise

After registering, confirm the watch was created and mention:

• The watch ID
• When it expires
• How often it will poll
• That the daemon must be running (claude-watcher daemon)

Examples

Input: npm-publish @scope/pkg 2.0.0 "Version 2.0.0 of @scope/pkg is published!"

Parsed as:

• trigger: npm-publish
• params: ["@scope/pkg", "2.0.0"]
• prompt: "Version 2.0.0 of @scope/pkg is published!"

Input: gh-pr-merged owner/repo 42 "PR #42 merged. Time to rebase."

Parsed as:

• trigger: gh-pr-merged
• params: ["owner/repo", "42"]
• prompt: "PR #42 merged. Time to rebase."