Recent Topic Pulse Briefing
Get a cited briefing on recent Reddit, Hacker News, and web discussion, with optional X and clear evidence limits.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
I can search the internet for you and find some recent information about AI agent frameworks. There's been a lot of discussion online, so I'm sure there are useful perspectives out there. Would you like me to look at blog posts, news articles, or social media? I could check a few different sources and summarize what I find. Let me know what angle interests you most—like technical discussions, adoption trends, or comparisons between different frameworks.
PULSE BRIEFING: AI AGENT FRAMEWORKS (Last 30 days) SOURCE BREAKDOWN • Reddit (r/MachineLearning, r/LocalLLM): 847 posts, avg 12 upvotes • Hacker News: 34 top-level posts, 1.2k avg comments • Tech blogs/news: 156 articles across TechCrunch, Vergetech, OpenAI blogs • Twitter/X: 12.4k mentions, 8.2k retweets, trending in ML circle KEY PATTERNS • Trend: Open-source frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI) dominate beginner interest • Sentiment: 62% positive (performance gains), 28% neutral (comparison posts), 10% critical (API costs) • Problems cited: latency in production, hallucination bugs, vendor lock-in • Opportunities: cost optimization, local-first deployment, multi-model routing CROSS-PLATFORM CONSENSUS • Reddit + HN agree: community matters more than framework—examples/docs drive adoption • Technical debate: structured vs freeform agent design remains unsettled RECOMMENDATION: Monitor HN for emerging frameworks (2-3 week lead on mainstream)
About this skill
“What's happening with this topic?” should produce more than a few loud posts and recycled headlines. Get a recent, cited briefing that separates recurring experiences, announcements, disputed claims, and platform-specific reactions within an explicit date window.
What it does
- Searches Reddit, Hacker News, and the open web separately, adding X when requested and accessible.
- Checks publication and discussion dates so old content resurfacing today does not masquerade as a new development.
- Groups syndicated articles and reposts around their originating event to avoid counting repetition as independent confirmation.
- Distinguishes conversation volume, sentiment, engagement, and verified product or market changes.
- Surfaces recurring complaints, emerging opportunities, comparisons, and disagreements with citations attached to each finding.
- Reports inaccessible sources, thin coverage, and the evidence needed before calling something a trend.
What you get
A dated briefing organized around the strongest patterns, with a compact source ledger, available engagement counts, confidence explanations, and practical implications. Quick questions receive a short answer; broader requests receive a fuller evidence-backed assessment.
Best for
Founders, product teams, researchers, and marketers who need to understand recent public discussion before choosing what to build, investigate, compare, or communicate.
SKILL.md preview
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name: recent-topic-pulse-briefing
description: Researches recent discussion across Reddit, Hacker News, and the open web, with optional X, using explicit date windows, source-level evidence, duplicate control, and cross-platform synthesis. Use when the user says "take the pulse of this topic", "what are people saying about this", "what changed this month", "find recurring complaints", "compare recent reactions to these tools", "is this actually trending", or "my searches keep returning old posts".
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