# Website watches

> Ask the Chief to watch a page and tell you when it changes.

Ask the Chief to keep an eye on a page and tell you when it changes. For example:

> Watch https://example.com/pricing every 15 minutes and tell me when the price changes.

The Chief hands the request to Scout, the specialist that owns website watches (or sets the watch up itself if Scout isn't available). Website watches must be turned on for your Koris installation.

## Getting useful alerts

- **Point at the part you care about.** You can ask to watch a specific section, such as the price or the main article. Watching the whole page can alert you about unrelated changes, like a rotating banner.
- **Say what you want to know.** The instruction you give ("tell me what changed in the price") is what the agent follows when a change comes in.
- **The first check sets the baseline.** It saves what the page looks like now and doesn't send an alert.

When the page changes, the agent that owns the watch receives what the text looked like before and after, and tells you in its chat. Checks that find no change don't use the AI and cost no koins.

## Managing watches

Watches appear on the **Routines** page next to your other scheduled routines. From the chat you can list them, change how often they run, or delete them; from the Routines page you can also pause them. To watch a different address or section, delete the watch and create a new one.

If a check fails (the site is down, for example), the last good version is kept, the failure shows in the routine's history, and Koris waits longer between retries, up to an hour.

## Limits

- Only public web pages can be watched.
- Koris compares the page's text. It doesn't run JavaScript, so pages that only show their content through JavaScript can't be watched, and visual or layout-only changes aren't detected. For such sites, a JSON feed or RSS feed often works better.
- A change that is reverted between two checks is not noticed.
- Each check waits at most 20 seconds and reads at most 2 MB.