| name | notslop-trending |
| description | Surface what is blowing up right now in a niche across Reddit, Hacker News, blogs, and X. Short-window (6h default) scan reranked by ZeroEntropy. Use when the user wants the current pulse of a space, not a curated read on one topic. |
Providers required
When to use this skill
Activate when the user prompt sounds like any of:
- "What's hot right now in ?"
- "What's blowing up in ?"
- "What's trending in <topic / industry>?"
- "Show me what's getting attention in this morning."
The signal here is recency — the user wants to know what people are reacting to now, not a deep read on one thing. For a curated read on one named topic, use notslop-digest.
Setup (one-time)
The user must have run npx notslop init and configured:
If config is missing, the CLI prints an actionable error. Surface it to the user verbatim and stop.
Steps
- Extract the niche from the user's prompt. Examples:
"AI agents", "local LLMs", "devtools".
- Pick a
--since window. The trending command defaults to 6h; bump to 24h only if the niche is slow-moving.
- Run via Bash:
npx notslop@latest trending "<NICHE>" --since <WINDOW> --format md
- Parse the markdown output. Preserve source tags and URLs.
- Return a ranked list — 5 to 10 items, one line each, source tag + URL preserved. Lead with the highest-ranked item.
Example
User: "What's hot right now in AI agents?"
→ Run: npx notslop@latest trending "AI agents" --since 6h --format md
→ Return the top 5–10 items as a short ranked list with source tags and URLs.
