| name | last30days |
| version | 1.0.0 |
| description | Research a topic across Reddit, X, and the broader web with a strict last-30-days lens. Good for recent discourse, recommendations, product chatter, and breaking developments. |
| argument-hint | cybersecurity trends, best AI coding tools, NVIDIA news, remote network admin jobs |
| tags | ["research","recency","web-search","synthesis"] |
| category | research |
last30days
Attribution: this is an independent, from-scratch implementation of the recency-research concept popularized by mvanhorn/last30days-skill (MIT). No text or code is shared with that project. For the full-featured original, install mvanhorn's skill.
Research what people are saying about a topic right now, not what ranked well six months ago.
Goal
Survey recent discussion across:
Parse intent first
Extract:
TOPIC
QUERY_TYPE
Use one of these query types:
RECOMMENDATIONS
NEWS
GENERAL
Search plan
Run 6 to 10 searches from different angles.
Reddit
site:reddit.com {TOPIC}
reddit {TOPIC} recommendations
reddit {TOPIC} discussion
X
site:x.com {TOPIC}
{TOPIC} x thread
{TOPIC} trending
Web
For RECOMMENDATIONS:
best {TOPIC} 2026
{TOPIC} comparison
top {TOPIC}
For NEWS:
{TOPIC} news 2026
{TOPIC} announcement
{TOPIC} update
For GENERAL:
{TOPIC} 2026
{TOPIC} guide
{TOPIC} overview
Prefer a past-month freshness filter when the tool supports it.
Deep dive
Fetch the 3 to 5 most promising results in full.
Prioritize:
- active Reddit threads
- detailed long-form articles
- primary-source announcements
- news articles with specifics
Output shape
Recommendations
- rank the most-mentioned options
- explain why they are being recommended
- cite sources
- note disagreements or controversial picks
News
- list key developments from the last 30 days
- include dates when available
- separate facts from community reaction
General
- summarize major themes
- call out where people agree
- call out where opinion splits
Rules
- prefer specific names, dates, and numbers
- weight recent discussion over stale SEO pages
- flag contradictions
- cite sources with links when possible
- keep the synthesis tight unless the user asks for a deep dive
Anti-pattern
Do not answer with a generic web summary built from one or two results. The whole point is cross-source recency.