BlogWatcher CLI

SkillFiles & storage

Use when managing or interacting with favorite blogs via the BlogWatcher CLI—adding/removing blogs, scanning for new posts, listing articles, marking read/unread, or modifying related CLI behavior, scanning, storage, and tests.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

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Then ask your AI: use the BlogWatcher CLI skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by hyaxia/blogwatcher in SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Quick Orientation

  • Use the Cobra entry point in cmd/blogwatcher/main.go and internal/cli/.
  • Route business logic through internal/controller and persistence through internal/storage.
  • Use scanning pipeline packages in internal/scanner, internal/rss, and internal/scraper.
  • Remember the default SQLite path is ~/.blogwatcher/blogwatcher.db (override with BLOGWATCHER_DB) and is created on demand.

Run Commands

  • Run locally with go run ./cmd/blogwatcher ....
  • Build with go build ./cmd/blogwatcher.

Change Workflow

  1. Add or adjust CLI commands in internal/cli/commands.go (Cobra options, arguments, output formatting).
  2. Put non-trivial logic in internal/controller so the CLI stays thin and testable.
  3. Update storage or schema in internal/storage/database.go and adjust model conversion in internal/model if needed.
  4. Modify scanning behavior in internal/scanner and its helpers (internal/rss, internal/scraper).
  5. Update or add tests under internal/ or cmd/ for every feature change or addition.

Test Guidance

  • Run tests with go test ./....
  • If you add a feature, add tests and any necessary dummy data.
  • Keep tests focused on CLI behavior, controller logic, and scraper/RSS parsing outcomes.

Output Conventions

  • Preserve user-friendly CLI output with colors and clear errors.
  • When listing posts available for reading, always include the link to each post in the output.
  • Keep error handling consistent with existing exceptions (BlogNotFoundError, BlogAlreadyExistsError, ArticleNotFoundError).

Example (posts available for reading)

Unread articles (2):

  [12] [new] Understanding Click Contexts
       Blog: Real Python
       URL: https://realpython.com/click-context/
       Published: 2025-11-02

  [13] [new] Async IO in Practice
       Blog: Test & Code
       URL: https://testandcode.com/async-io-in-practice/

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Aug 2026
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Gateway key
blogwatcher-cli
Source
github.com/hyaxia/blogwatcher