/last30days

An AI agent-led search engine scored by upvotes, likes, and real money - not editors.

Why this exists

I built it to keep up in AI. Everything changes every day and the Reddit and X nerds are always on top of it first. I needed better prompts, and the training data was always months behind what the community had already figured out.

But it turned into something bigger. Now I run it before a sales call to know the last 30 days truth about a business. Before a meeting to read someone's recent tweets and podcast transcripts. Before a Disney World trip to know which rides are closed and what the community says about Genie+. Before I build anything to know what problems people are actually hitting.

If you're meeting with a CEO, have you read all their tweets and YouTube transcripts from the last 30 days? I have.

Use Cases

• Before a meeting. /last30days Peter Steinberger - joined OpenAI's Codex team, fighting Anthropic's ban on third-party agents, 23 PRs merged at 85% merge rate on GitHub, building LobsterOS for cross-device agent control. r/ClaudeCode: "Ever since OpenClaw released, it was widely known that if you run it through anything other than the API, you were gonna get banned eventually" (227 upvotes). That's not on LinkedIn.
• To read hiring signals. /last30days Listen Labs --hiring-signals - current jobs and careers pages become cited evidence for focus shifts: hiring into enterprise security, customer success, infrastructure, or product expansion. The report says what the hiring appears to signal, not what the roadmap will ship.
• To find the topic before it peaks. Ask /last30days what's exploding in AI agents? and the skill switches to discovery mode: the engine sweeps Reddit category listings, Hacker News front/best stories, Digg's AI 1000 feed, and X when authenticated; your agent judges the nominations (names, junk filtering, content-worthiness) and writes podcast / X-article angles; then you get 5-10 velocity-ranked topics. Every result includes cross-source numbers, a momentum label, and a ready-to-run /last30days "<topic>" follow-up.
• When something drops. /last30days Kanye West - UK blocked his visa, Wireless Festival canceled, sponsors fled. But BULLY debuted #2 on Billboard. Fantano came back from his "Yay sabbatical" to review it (653K views). SoFi Homecoming brought out Lauryn Hill and Travis Scott for 44 songs. Polymarket: "Will Kanye tweet again?" 86% Yes. 23 Reddit threads, 17 YouTube videos, 86K upvotes.
• To compare tools. /last30days OpenClaw vs Hermes vs Paperclip - "These aren't competitors, they're layers." OpenClaw is the executor (351K GitHub stars, live), Hermes is the self-improving brain (31K stars), Paperclip is the org chart (49K stars). Star counts pulled live from the GitHub API, not stale blog posts. Side-by-side table with architecture, memory, security, best-for. Per @IMJustinBrooke: "OpenClaw = Charmander, Hermes = Charizard."
• To understand the world. /last30days Iran vs USA - Day 38 of the war. Trump's Tuesday deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Two US warplanes downed. Oil at $126/barrel. The IEA called it "the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market." Polymarket: ceasefire by Dec 31 at 74%. 27 X posts, 10 YouTube videos, 20 prediction markets.
• Before a trip. /last30days Universal Epic Universe - Expansion already under construction. "Project 680" permit filed. Fireworks show confirmed by infrastructure but unannounced. Wait times: Mine-Cart Madness averaging 148 minutes. No annual pass yet, and locals are frustrated. Stardust Racers down for refurbishment through April 5.
• To learn something fast. /last30days Nano Banana Pro prompting - JSON-structured prompts are replacing tag soup. @pictsbyai's nested format prevents "concept bleeding." Edit-first workflow beats regeneration. Then it writes you a production prompt using exactly what the community said works.

Core Capabilities

• Multi-source search: Searches Reddit, X/Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, Digg, arXiv, Techmeme, LinkedIn, StockTwits, Threads, Pinterest, Xiaohongshu (RED), Bluesky, Perplexity, and the web.
• People-first scoring: Results are ranked by real engagement — upvotes, likes, views, comments, and real-money betting odds — not editorial curation.
• AI synthesis: An AI agent judge reads all the results and produces a single, cited brief.
• Cross-source clustering: The same story across multiple platforms is merged into one cluster.
• Zero-config for free sources: Reddit, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, StockTwits work immediately without API keys.
• Extensible with your own keys: Bring API keys or browser cookies to unlock X, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, and more.
• Structured output: Get machine-readable JSON for agents and workflows, or a formatted HTML brief.
• Discovery mode: Ask for trending topics without a specific query.
• Trend monitoring: Save results to a SQLite database and set up scheduled watchlists or daily digests.
• Library: Build a searchable archive of past briefs with an Atom feed.

Sources, scored by the people

A Reddit thread with 1,500 upvotes is a stronger signal than a blog post nobody read. A TikTok with 3.6M views tells you more about what's culturally relevant than a press release. Polymarket odds backed by $66K in volume are harder to argue with than a pundit's guess.

The synthesis ranks by what real people actually engaged with. Social relevancy, not SEO relevancy.

How It Works

1. You type a topic. Person, company, product, technology, "X vs Y." Anything.
2. The agent resolves who matters. Finds X handles (including founders), GitHub repos, subreddits, TikTok hashtags, YouTube channels. For "Kanye West" it knows r/hiphopheads, @kanyewest, and "bully review" on YouTube. For "OpenClaw" it resolves openclaw/openclaw on GitHub and fetches live star counts.
3. All sources searched in parallel. Multi-query expansion. Results scored by engagement, relevance, freshness.
4. The depth nobody else has. Full YouTube transcripts from reaction videos. Top Reddit comments with upvote counts. TikTok captions. Polymarket odds. Not just titles and links.
5. Same story, merged. Wireless Festival announced on Reddit, discussed on X, ticket prices on TikTok = one cluster, not three separate items.
6. Synthesized into one brief. Grounded in specific data. Cited by source. Ranked by what people actually engage with. Not "here's what I found." It's "here's what matters."
7. Then it becomes your expert. After one run, your Claude session knows everything the community knows. Ask follow-up questions. Have it write prompts, draft emails, plan trips, architect systems - all grounded in what's real right now.

What You Need to Provide

Free sources (no setup)

• Reddit, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, StockTwits: nothing required.
• arXiv, Techmeme: free CLIs auto-installed on first run.

Optional API keys and browser sessions

Configuration

• Research files saved to: ~/Documents/Last30Days/ (Windows: C:\Users\<you>\Documents\Last30Days\). Override with LAST30DAYS_MEMORY_DIR env var, or --save-dir <path> per run. Use --output <file> when you need the rendered result at an exact path. Use --save-suffix=<name> to keep multiple variations of the same topic separate.
• Structured output: Use --emit=json for machine-readable JSON. For direct engine use in scripts: python3 skills/last30days/scripts/last30days.py "AI coding agents" --emit=json.
• Discovery mode: Ask /last30days what's trending in AI agents? or use python3 skills/last30days/scripts/last30days.py --discover "AI agents" (one-shot: deterministic topic names, no angles). Add --emit=json for the versioned discovery contract.
• Trend monitoring: Add --store to persist into a SQLite database, then use scripts/watchlist.py for scheduled runs and scripts/briefing.py for daily/weekly digests.
• Library: Ask /last30days to build your library feed, or use python3 skills/last30days/scripts/last30days.py library feed directly. It turns saved briefs into index.html, a local Atom feed.xml, and readable brief pages. Add --publish to host the HTML index and brief pages.
• Search your library: Ask /last30days search my library for MCP servers or use python3 skills/last30days/scripts/last30days.py library search "MCP servers". Search is offline and deterministic.
• macOS Keychain: Store keys in the system Keychain instead of .env file. The skill picks them up automatically as the lowest-priority source.

What You Get

• A single, synthesized brief covering the last 30 days of a topic, person, or comparison.
• Cross-source numbers: upvote counts, view counts, comment counts, prediction market odds.
• Top comments from Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, and other sources.
• Best Takes: the community's funniest or most viral lines, weighted by crowd votes.
• A shareable HTML brief (--emit=html) or machine-readable JSON (--emit=json).
• Optionally, a searchable library of past briefs with an Atom feed.
• Trend monitoring with watchlists and daily/weekly digests.

Examples

• Before a meeting: /last30days Peter Steinberger reveals he joined OpenAI's Codex team, fighting Anthropic's ban on third-party agents, 23 PRs merged at 85% merge rate, building LobsterOS. This is not on LinkedIn.
• Hiring signals: /last30days Listen Labs --hiring-signals surfaces the company's job pages and infers strategic focus shifts.
• Trend discovery: /last30days what's exploding in AI agents? returns 5–10 velocity-ranked topics with cross-source numbers.
• Breaking news: /last30days Kanye West shows UK blocked his visa, Wireless Festival canceled, BULLY #2 on Billboard, Polymarket 86% Yes on "Will Kanye tweet again?"
• Tool comparison: /last30days OpenClaw vs Hermes vs Paperclip produces a side-by-side table with live GitHub star counts, architecture, memory, security, best-for.
• Geopolitics: /last30days Iran vs USA gives Day 38 of the war, oil at $126/barrel, Polymarket ceasefire by Dec 31 at 74%.
• Travel: /last30days Universal Epic Universe reports construction expansion, wait times, refurbishment closures.
• Learning: /last30days Nano Banana Pro prompting extracts community-proven techniques and writes a production prompt.

What People Are Saying

"I found a Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, and HN from the last 30 days. Then writes the prompts for you. I've been manually searching Reddit and X for research before every piece of content I write. Tab by tab. Thread by thread. That's the part that takes 90 minutes. This eliminates it." -@itsjasonai

"This one skill replaced my entire research workflow. You give it a topic, it scrapes Reddit, X, and the web for what people are actually talking about. Not old blog posts. Real conversations from the last 30 days." -@itswilsoncharles

"5 of the 10 trending repos on GitHub today are Claude tools. #1: mvanhorn/last30days-skill" -@yieldhunter95

Notes & Limitations

• Zero tracking: No analytics. Your research stays on your machine.
• Open source: MIT licensed. 2,700+ tests.
• Privacy: API keys are stored in your OS keychain or .env file. Browser cookies are used only for X/Twitter auth.
• Dependencies: Requires Python 3.12+ on PATH (for Claude Desktop MCP bundle). Some features require yt-dlp, Node.js (vendored Bird client), and ScrapeCreators API.
• Reddit comments: Free path uses RSS + shreddit scraping, provides real upvote counts and top comments.
• X/Twitter: Browser cookies are free; API keys are optional. The pipeline has FROM and ABOUT lanes to separate a person's own posts from the conversation about them.
• YouTube: Full transcripts are searched. Comments are available via ScrapeCreators.
• Polymarket: Odds are backed by real money and insider information, not opinions.
• GitHub: For people: PR velocity, top repos by stars, release notes. For topics: issues and discussions.
• Xiaohongshu (RED): Must be explicitly requested with --search xhs and requires a local browser session service.
• Perplexity: Direct API modes and async Deep Research available.
• Web search: Brave Search key required (2,000 free queries/month).
• Configuration reference: Full per-source key matrix, reasoning provider priority, and web-search backend priority are documented in CONFIGURATION.md.
• Update note: The skill is actively developed. Check the release notes for the latest changes.