changewatch

A doorbell, not a dashboard.

What it does

You can already see what you did. What you cannot see is whether anyone else did anything about it — the first citation, the first star from a stranger, the first time your name appears somewhere you did not put it.

pip install changewatch
changewatch init
changewatch check

Almost every run says nothing happened and exits. That is the design.

Why it only reports other people

The first ORCID this was pointed at reported six citations. All six were the author citing himself, doubled because Zenodo mints a DOI per version. Six is a number that feels like an audience; the real figure was zero.

A tool that cannot tell your own activity from a stranger's rings on your own deposits, gets muted inside a week, and is then silent on the day something real happens. So every source checks your ORCID, your names and your logins.

It does not trust the search engine

Asked for the exact phrase "openapi-drift", Hacker News returned a five-month-old thread titled “How do you catch OpenAPI drift before the UI breaks?” — two words, and not about anybody's package. Every hit is checked against the text locally, because a search engine's idea of a phrase is not yours.

The first run is silent

It has nothing to compare against, so everything looks new. A doorbell that announces months of history the moment it is plugged in gets unplugged. The first run learns; the second one rings.