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research-last-days

research-last-days

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About research-last-days

A research skill that uses web search to investigate a topic over a specified or inferred number of recent days. It returns sourced findings, trends, patterns, and actionable insights.

Key features

  1. 01Searches the web for recent information
  2. 02Uses a specified or inferred time range
  3. 03Summarizes findings with sources
  4. 04Identifies trends and patterns
  5. 05Provides actionable insights

Use cases

  1. 01Researching news from the past week
  2. 02Finding recent trends on a topic
  3. 03Reviewing developments from a chosen time period

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/cowork-os/cowork-os --skill research-last-days

After installing, type/research-last-daysin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

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

NameTypeRequiredDescription
topicstringYesThe topic to research (e.g., 'AI agents', 'prompting techniques', 'Apple announcements')
daysnumberNoNumber of days to look back (e.g., 1, 7, 14, 30, 90). Defaults to 7.
toolselectNoTarget 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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