What problem does it solve? Trading desks need continuous awareness of markets, positions, and system health between trades, but watches that silently fail or act on their own create hidden risk. This Skill defines how to run read-only monitoring routines, briefs, and alerts that never touch the exchange and never mistake a dead feed for a calm market. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Scheduled Routines: Set up cron or timer-based routines such as the autonomous cycle, heartbeat watch, daily desk brief, book checks, funding snapshots, and weekly reviews. - Polling and WebSocket Watches: Run price, funding, fill, margin, and liquidation watches via /info polling scripts or WebSocket subscriptions like allMids, l2Book, and userFills. - Three-Outcome Alerting: Every watch reports fired, not fired, or unavailable, with staleness bounds so failed reads escalate as explicit alerts instead of false silence. - Use Case: A user asks to "watch ETH funding and alert me if it flips sign." The Skill sets up a polling watch on metaAndAssetCtxs, logs to watch/<name>.log, and alerts with the value, threshold, source, and UTC time when the condition fires. ## Quick Start Ask the desk to set up a watch that alerts you when BTC crosses a price level or when the heartbeat file goes stale.
