research-last-days

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

Source Transparency