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Makers Circulars

Maker service letters, synced.

Equipment bulletins arrive silently — this skill makes sure none of them miss the library.

MAN B&WFramoYanmardifferential syncdocument registry

What it does

The Makers Circulars skill keeps the document library current with service circulars and bulletins from marine equipment manufacturers. It checks each manufacturer’s published index, identifies new bulletins, downloads them, and registers them so they become searchable. Each manufacturer has a dedicated scraper — new manufacturers are auto-discovered without config changes.

Current manufacturers: MAN B&W, Framo, Yanmar — more added as scrapers are written. The status output always shows the live list.

How it works

  1. Status check — a status table shows, per manufacturer, how many circulars are on the website, how many are downloaded locally, how many are indexed, and how many are new since the last sync.
  2. Differential download — compares the website list against the local registry and downloads only the missing items.
  3. Registry update — each new circular is registered with its number, title, manufacturer, issue date, and source URL.
  4. Email notification — when new circulars are downloaded, an email goes out with PDFs attached so engineers see them without logging into the document library.

Output

  • Newly downloaded circular PDFs in the document library
  • Registry entries linking each PDF to its metadata
  • A per-manufacturer status table with sync state and counts
  • Email summary with attachments when new circulars arrive
Flag Circulars Sister skill for flag-state authority circulars.
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