Skim Signals
Vertical intelligence feeds for AI agents. Each Signal watches one slice of the world — a market, a regulator, a threat landscape — and turns it into structured items an agent can act on: title, summary, source, timestamp, link, and extracted entities where they matter.
Eighteen Signals are live — and custom Signals are built to order. Request yours →
Pay by card · monthly plan
Every Signal works the same way: one GET, one JSON feed, newest-first. Pick a plan, and poll with the API key you received at checkout — 2 credits per poll, on the same key your agent already uses for reads. Feeds refresh on a 10-minute cycle (the x402 Signal on 15) and always serve the latest good copy, so a poll never errors because an upstream source hiccuped — and a poll that can't be served is never charged.
Each item links to its source. When your agent needs the full page behind an item, pass that link to /read.
Pay by wallet · per-poll x402
Running an autonomous agent that shouldn't need a billing account? Every Signal is also available pay-per-poll over x402 at $0.005 in USDC — no signup, no key, no monthly commitment. Your agent pays exactly for what it polls and nothing else. Wallet setup →
Skim Watch
$0.005 per checkPOST /t/watch · GET /t/watch/diffYour own private Signal. With an API key, register 1–20 URLs at POST /t/watch and poll GET /t/watch/diff?id= — 1 credit per successful fetch. Wallet pay uses POST /v2/watch ($0.01) then $0.005 per poll. No email alerts.
Sources: any pages you choose
Docs and agent codeCustom Signal
Built to orderYour vertical hereNeed a vertical we don't cover yet? Tell us what your agent needs to watch and we build it. Tell us the vertical, your preferred sources, and how your agent will use the feed.
Sources: whatever your agent needs
Request a Signalx402 Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/feeds/x402/latestNew services and price changes across the public x402 registries. The market map for the machine economy: when a new paid API appears or a competitor moves its price, your agent hears about it on the next poll.
Sources: x402-list.com, 402index.io
Docs and agent codeAI Tech Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/ai-news/latestHigh-signal AI and tech news: score-gated Hacker News front-page stories, fresh arXiv AI papers, and official vendor announcements. Title, excerpt, source, and link — the signal, not the noise.
Sources: Hacker News, arXiv, vendor announcements
Docs and agent codeSEC Filings Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/sec-filings/latestLive SEC EDGAR filings translated into plain language: 8-K is a material corporate event, S-1 is an IPO registration, SC 13D is an activist stake, Form 4 is an insider trade. Filter by form type with ?forms=.
Sources: SEC EDGAR
Docs and agent codeCrypto Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/crypto-news/latestHeadlines from the major crypto newsrooms, tagged with the assets they mention (BTC, ETH, SOL, and more) so your agent can filter to the tokens it cares about.
Sources: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block
Docs and agent codeMacro Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/macro/latestOfficial press releases from the Federal Reserve and the SEC — monetary policy, enforcement actions, rulemaking — straight from the source, not filtered through a news outlet's take.
Sources: Federal Reserve, SEC press releases
Docs and agent codeSecurity Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/security/latestLive CISA cybersecurity advisories with CVE identifiers extracted into structured entities, so an agent can match new vulnerabilities against its own dependency list automatically.
Sources: CISA advisories
Docs and agent codeRegulations Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/regulations/latestNew final rules, proposed rules, and presidential documents from the Federal Register — the US government's official daily journal — tagged with the issuing agencies. Routine notices are filtered out so only the rulemaking that changes things comes through.
Sources: Federal Register (official API)
Docs and agent codeCourts Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/courts/latestPublished opinions from the US Supreme Court and the thirteen federal courts of appeals: case name, court, filing date, and an opening excerpt. The precedent-setting layer of the federal judiciary, without the noise of every district and state court.
Sources: CourtListener (Free Law Project)
Docs and agent codeRecalls Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/recalls/latestOfficial US product recalls and safety alerts from the CPSC and the FDA, with hazard and product tags. An agent watching a shopping list, a pantry, or a product catalog can match recalls against it automatically.
Sources: CPSC, FDA
Docs and agent codeDeals Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/deals/latestPrice drops and vetted deals across consumer categories — the single most tracked e-commerce topic. Community-vetted deals from Slickdeals plus editor-vetted deals from DealNews, with price, retailer, and category tags. Filter by category with ?categories=.
Sources: Slickdeals, DealNews
Docs and agent codeLaunches Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/launches/latestNew product launches from Product Hunt's daily feed: product name, tagline, maker, and link. An agent tracking a market segment sees every new entrant the day it ships.
Sources: Product Hunt
Docs and agent codeResearch Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/research/latestFresh arXiv papers across the most-followed research fields — AI, machine learning, NLP, computer vision, robotics, multi-agent systems, security, and quantum — with abstract excerpts, authors, and PDF links. Filter by field with ?fields=. Pair with /v2/read to pull any paper page as clean markdown.
Sources: arXiv
Docs and agent codeEnergy Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/energy/latestOil and energy-sector intelligence from the U.S. Energy Information Administration: daily data briefs and official press releases, tagged with the commodities they cover — crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, electricity, renewables. Forecast revisions and market shifts, straight from the source.
Sources: EIA Today in Energy, EIA Press Room
Docs and agent codeEntertainment Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/entertainment/latestHollywood and entertainment-industry headlines from the four major trades — Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and TheWrap — tagged with the studios, streamers, and guilds they mention. Deals, greenlights, box office, and labor news as structured items.
Sources: Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, TheWrap
Docs and agent codeStudio Jobs Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/studio-jobs/latestWeekly counts of AI and content-ops job postings across the major Hollywood studios — Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Amazon MGM Studios, NBCUniversal — pulled from each studio's ATS API instead of fragile app-style careers pages. One item per studio per ISO week; track hiring momentum per query term week-over-week.
Sources: Studio ATS APIs (Eightfold, Phenom, TalentBrew, amazon.jobs, SmartRecruiters)
Docs and agent codeCampaign Finance Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/campaign-finance/latestNew FEC electronic filings as structured items: which committee filed, what form, covering what period, with a plain-language meaning tag per form type. Filter by form with ?forms= or track specific organizations with ?committees=. Public records, reported equally for every committee.
Sources: FEC electronic filing system
Docs and agent codeFilm Incentives Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/film-incentives/latestNew state film-incentive award rounds and allocations across California, New York, Georgia, New Mexico, and Texas: official California Film Commission and Texas Governor announcements plus incentive-focused press coverage per state — who just won tax credits, where, and for how much. Filter by state with ?states=.
Sources: California Film Commission, Office of the Texas Governor, per-state press coverage
Docs and agent codeTrending Signal
2 credits · $0.005 per pollGET /v2/signal/trending/latestWhat US consumers are searching for right now, from Google Trends: the query, an approximate search volume, and the top news stories driving the spike. Demand surges are the leading indicator for product and market interest.
Sources: Google Trends (US)
Docs and agent codePolling a Signal from your agent
On a plan, it's one line with your API key — any language, any HTTP client:
curl "https://skim402.com/api/t/signal/ai-news/latest?limit=20" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sk402_YOUR_KEY"
Swap ai-news for any Signal in the catalog. No plan yet? Start with the Free Plan — 1,000 credits a month covers a poll every ~90 minutes, around the clock. Paying by wallet instead? The payment section of the docs has copy-paste x402 clients for JavaScript and Python.
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