# Coverage Tracker

Run a Google Alerts-style keyword coverage tracker.

- Repository: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack (1668 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-25
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill coverage-tracker -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill coverage-tracker -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill coverage-tracker -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add elvisun/newsjack --skill coverage-tracker -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add elvisun/newsjack`

## Description

Run a Google Alerts-style keyword coverage tracker. Uses news-search for recent keyword queries, lets the LLM dedupe and classify real features versus junk, stores decisions in SQLite, and alerts only on new real coverage.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Coverage Tracker

Track whether configured keywords appeared in real coverage. Keep this simple: `news-search` collects dated article evidence, you dedupe and judge with the keyword's meaning snippet, and the CLI only stores config plus seen/alert state.

This is not `newsjack-detector`. Do not score newsjacking opportunities, generate angles, assess standing, or use monitor profiles.

## Runtime Mode

- **Full Mode:** Use this in Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes, or another capable agent harness with shell, filesystem, network, and local CLI access. Full Mode can read tracker config, check SQLite seen-state, record decisions, and suppress repeat alerts.
- **Limited Mode:** Use this in Claude.ai chat, ChatGPT chat, Claude Cowork, or any restricted runtime without shell/filesystem/CLI access. Do not attempt `curl`, `npm`, or on-demand CLI installation. Run a one-off manual coverage check from pasted/searchable evidence and disclose that no tracker config, SQLite state, or repeat suppression was used.

**Before you decide you're in Limited Mode, check whether `newsjack` is installed.** It ships as a prebuilt, bundled binary, you do **not** need Go, a compiler, or any build/install step to run it. Never look for a Go toolchain, and never declare the CLI "missing" or tell the user they need a "Go environment" without running this check first:

1. Run `newsjack --version`. If it prints a version, you're in Full Mode, use plain `newsjack ...` for every command.
2. If `newsjack` isn't on `PATH`, try the bundled location `~/.newsjack/bin/newsjack --version`. If that prints a version, use that full path in place of `newsjack` everywhere below.
3. Only if **both** fail (and you genuinely have no shell) are you in Limited Mode.

The bundled binary is almost always already installed, assume Full Mode and verify, don't assume it's missing.

## Workflow

In Limited Mode, skip the CLI state steps and:

The rest: https://github.com/elvisun/newsjack/blob/HEAD/plugins/newsjack/skills/coverage-tracker/SKILL.md