This Claude Code skill addresses the challenge of staying current in the evolving AI landscape. It researches recent Reddit and X discussions to identify trending topics, effective prompting techniques, and community best practices, delivering actionable, copy-paste-ready prompts or expert answers. It benefits prompt engineers and researchers by providing timely, community-validated insights.

How It Works

The skill uses OpenAI's API (with web search) for Reddit and xAI's API for X to scan discussions from the past 30 days. It synthesizes identified patterns and best practices to generate precise prompts for AI tools or comprehensive answers. This approach ensures outputs are based on current community sentiment and real-world application.

Quick Start & Requirements

• Installation: Clone the repository to ~/.claude/skills/last30days. Create ~/.config/last30days and populate a .env file with API keys.

  git clone https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/last30days
  mkdir -p ~/.config/last30days
  cat > ~/.config/last30days/.env << 'EOF'
  OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
  XAI_API_KEY=xai-...
  EOF
  chmod 600 ~/.config/last30days/.env
  

• Prerequisites: OpenAI API key (required), xAI API key (optional), Claude Code environment.
• Links: GitHub Repository

Highlighted Details

• Prompt Research: Uncovers current prompting techniques and best practices for AI tools by analyzing community discourse.
• Trend Discovery: Identifies viral trends, product recommendations, and emerging topics across Reddit and X.
• Recency Focus: Exclusively utilizes data from the last 30 days for relevance.
• Actionable Outputs: Delivers copy-paste-ready prompts or synthesized, expert-level answers.
• Engagement Metrics: Provides research statistics (upvotes, likes) to indicate community interest.
• Customizable Research: Supports options like --quick (fewer sources) and --deep (more sources) for tailored research depth.

Maintenance & Community

The project is hosted on GitHub. No specific community channels or detailed contributor information are detailed in the README.

Licensing & Compatibility

The README does not specify a software license. Compatibility for commercial use or closed-source linking is undetermined.

Limitations & Caveats

Operation requires valid OpenAI and xAI API keys. Research quality depends on active discussions within the 30-day window on Reddit and X. No other specific limitations are detailed.