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.