Watchers

1. Open My Workflows; the template gallery beneath your workflows lists the adoptable watchers.
2. Select Adopt on a watcher template.
3. Choose its scope: the agencies, policy areas, search terms, or document types it should watch (or, for the renewal watcher, a collection of agreements and a lookahead window).
4. Pick a cadence and adopt. It scans on that schedule from then on.

Adopting is for administrators; the findings are for everyone. The Your watchers section on My Workflows shows each watcher’s schedule, owner, and last run, and spells out exactly what it watches, every agency, policy area, term, and type, right on the card; an administrator can pause or resume one at any time.

The renewal watcher scans a collection of agreements for upcoming expirations within a lookahead window. The Federal Register monitor watches for new rules, proposed rules, and notices matching the agencies and search terms you choose. The legislative monitor watches Congress for new bills matching your policy areas and keywords (a plain text match against each bill’s title and latest summary) and follows the bills it surfaces, recording a finding for every new action. And the Comment-cycle monitor watches Regulations.gov for new rulemaking activity matching your agencies and search terms, follows each rulemaking docket that opens a public comment period, and records new documents, comment-deadline changes, and approaching deadlines, always showing the deadline exactly as Regulations.gov states it.

Every scheduled run belongs to the person who adopted the watcher and follows the same rules as any other run: reading completes on its own, and any action that would change something outside Sonata still pauses for approval. Findings land at the top of the Desk, org-visible and dismissible; the Your Desk guide covers the cards and their gestures.