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Research a topic from the past X days using web search. Specify the number of days or let it be inferred from your prompt.

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$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill research-last-days --agent claude-code

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How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/research-last-days

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Research a topic from the past X days using web search. Specify the number of days or let it be inferred from your prompt.

SKILL.md

research-last-days.SKILL.md
name: research-last-days
description: "Research a topic from the past X days using web search. Specify the number of days or let it be inferred from your prompt."
version: "1.0.0"
metadata:
  author: CoWork OS Contributors <info@coworkosapp.com>

Last X Days Research

Purpose

Research a topic from the past X days using web search. Specify the number of days or let it be inferred from your prompt.

Routing

  • Use when: Use when the user asks to research what happened recently on a topic, look up news from the last N days, or find recent trends and discussions.
  • Do not use when: Do not use for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion.
  • Outputs: Summary of recent findings with trends, patterns, and actionable insights.
  • Success criteria: Returns concrete findings from the specified time period with sources and no fabricated results.

Trigger Examples

Positive

  • Use the research-last-days skill for this request.
  • Help me with last x days research.
  • Use when the user asks to research what happened recently on a topic, look up news from the last N days, or find recent trends and discussions.
  • Last X Days Research: provide an actionable result.

Negative

  • Do not use for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion.
  • Do not use research-last-days for unrelated requests.
  • This request is outside last x days research scope.
  • This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |---|---|---|---| | topic | string | Yes | The topic to research (e.g., 'AI agents', 'prompting techniques', 'Apple announcements') | | days | number | No | Number of days to look back (e.g., 1, 7, 14, 30, 90). Defaults to 7. | | tool | select | No | Target AI tool for the prompts (optional context) |

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: 1668 characters.
  • Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../research-last-days.json`.
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