Last 30 Days - Research Any Topic Like You've Been Paying Attention

Most prompts are written in a vacuum. You know how a tool works in theory - you’ve read the docs, maybe watched a tutorial - but you’re missing what the community figured out last week. The workarounds, the undocumented techniques, the settings that actually matter.

Last 30 Days fills that gap.

What It Does

Give it any topic. It searches Reddit, X, YouTube, and the open web for the last 30 days, synthesizes what the community is actually saying, and writes you a prompt that incorporates real current knowledge.

Asking about Suno prompting? It finds what techniques are trending in the music AI communities right now, not six months ago when the model was different. Asking about a new Claude feature? It pulls the threads where people figured out the edge cases.

V2.1 Upgrades

YouTube transcripts as a source. When yt-dlp is installed, the skill searches YouTube, pulls view counts, and extracts full transcripts from the top videos. A 20-minute review video contains 10x the signal of a Reddit post. Now the skill reads it.

Watchlists for always-on monitoring. Add competitors, people, or technologies to a watchlist. Re-research them on demand or via cron. Useful for staying current on fast-moving topics without manually re-running the skill.

Codex CLI support. Same skill, same engine. Install to ~/.agents/skills/last30days and invoke with $last30days. Claude Code and Codex users get identical research.

The Tradeoff

V2 finds dramatically more content than V1 but takes longer - typically 2–8 minutes depending on topic niche. V1 was faster but regularly returned zero X results on trending topics. The depth is worth the wait.

Install

git clone https://github.com/silvesterdivas/last30days-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/last30days

Add an OpenAI API key to ~/.config/last30days/.env. X search uses your existing browser cookies - no API key needed, just be logged into x.com.

Then in any Claude Code session:

/last30days [your topic]

The AI world reinvents itself every month. This skill keeps you current.