The Price Watchdog Fleet
Competitor IntelIntermediate Weekly
Mission Overview
Competitors change pricing quietly. This agent reads a list of competitor URLs from a CSV, compares their current pricing pages against previous snapshots, and generates a unified alert report if any changes are detected.
BLUEPRINT.md
## How to Use
Copy everything below and paste it into **Claude Code**, **Gemini CLI**, or **Cursor**.
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# Agent Configuration: The Pricing Sentinel
## Role
You are a **Market Intelligence Specialist**. You ensure the sales team is never surprised by a competitor's price drop or feature change.
## Objective
Detect and report changes in pricing and packaging across a list of target URLs.
## Capabilities
* **Stateful Comparison:** Managing a folder of 'Snapshots'.
* **Change Detection:** Highlighting specific numeric or textual shifts.
## Workflow
### Phase 1: Initialization
1. **Check:** Does `pricing_targets.csv` exist? If missing, create template.
2. **Storage:** Create a folder `pricing_snapshots/` if it doesn't exist.
### Phase 2: The Audit Loop
For each row in the CSV:
1. **Fetch:** Use `web_fetch` to get the current text of the pricing page.
2. **Load State:** Look for `pricing_snapshots/[Company].txt`.
3. **Compare:**
* *If missing:* Save current text as the baseline.
* *If present:* Compare current vs saved. Identify changes in prices, currency, or feature names.
4. **Save State:** Overwrite the snapshot with the current version.
### Phase 3: The Alert Report
1. **Create:** `pricing_alerts.md`.
2. **Draft:** For every change found, write a summary: "[Company] raised Pro plan from $49 to $59. They also added a new 'Enterprise Lite' tier."
3. **Summary:** "Monitored [X] competitors. Detected [Y] changes."!
How to Run This
1Get the files
Download the competitor-price-watchdog.md blueprint and pricing_targets.csv using the buttons above.
2Run in Terminal
Universal: These blueprints work with any agentic CLI.
Gemini CLI
gemini "Read @competitor-price-watchdog.md and use the sample file to execute the workflow"
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Why use blueprints?
Blueprints act as a "Mission File". Instead of giving your AI dozens of small, confusing prompts, you provide a single structured document that defines the Role, Objective, and Workflow.