- Remove interactive "Install Bird CLI?" prompt
- Add Bird as FREE option in promo messages
- Auto-detect Bird silently (use if authenticated)
- Keep original flow: show promo → continue with available sources
Bird now appears in the promo alongside API keys:
🔵 X (Twitter)
└─ FREE: npm install -g @steipete/bird (uses browser session)
└─ Or: Add XAI_API_KEY (paid API)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add LAST30DAYS_CONFIG_DIR env var to override config location
- Set LAST30DAYS_CONFIG_DIR="" in test skill for clean mode
- Test skill now ignores existing API keys to show Bird install prompt
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- is_bird_installed() checks if bird command is in PATH
- is_bird_authenticated() runs bird whoami to verify auth
- check_npm_available() checks if npm can install bird
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix invalid YAML in SKILL.md argument-hint (closes#8)
Wrapped value in single quotes to properly escape double quotes
- Add automatic model fallback for GPT-5 access errors (closes#9)
When OpenAI returns 400 for unverified orgs, retry with gpt-4o
- Add tests for model fallback logic
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Refactor run_research() to use ThreadPoolExecutor for parallel execution
- Reddit timeout/crash no longer blocks X search from running
- Add catch for ConnectionResetError/OSError in http.py
- Per-item error handling in Reddit enrichment (one failure doesn't crash all)
- Increase API timeouts from 60/90/120 to 90/120/180 seconds
- Add ClawdBot setup example to README
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds ⚠️ LIMITED RECENT DATA warning when:
- Fewer than 5 items are confirmed from the date range
- Tells Claude to be transparent with user about data freshness
Example output for obscure topic (June Oven):
"Only 4 item(s) confirmed from 2025-12-26 to 2026-01-25.
Results below may include older/evergreen content."
Popular topics (clawdbot, nano banana) don't show the warning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
If initial search returns <5 threads, extract core subject and retry:
- "best nano banana prompting practices" → retry with "nano banana"
- Combines results from both searches, deduped by URL
Note: OpenAI's web_search still tends to find old content. This retry
helps cast a wider net but doesn't fully solve the recency issue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
OpenAI's web_search doesn't reliably find recent Reddit content.
Strategy change: request MORE threads and let server-side date
filtering handle it.
Changes:
- Increased depth config (20-30 → 30-50 default)
- Simplified prompt to search broadly and include all matches
- Let server-side date filter remove old content
- Removed aggressive pre-filtering that was limiting results
Tradeoff: Some topics have more X coverage than Reddit due to
web_search limitations. This is acceptable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The model was finding old threads (Nov-Dec 2025) that got filtered out,
leaving 0 results even for popular topics like "nano banana prompts".
Changes:
- Add explicit date filters: "after:{from_date}" and "2026"/"January 2026"
- Emphasize RECENT content is critical, old threads are filtered anyway
- Tell model to verify dates before including threads
Before: 0-2 Reddit threads for "nano banana prompting practices"
After: 16 Reddit threads from January 2026
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- Add EXTRACT CORE KEYWORDS step to search for main subject, not full phrase
("killer features of clawdbot" → search "clawdbot")
- Remove hardcoded subreddit list that biased results toward design/dev subs
- Simplify search strategies and URL validation rules
- Make prompt more concise - GPT-5.2 responds better to clearer instructions
Before: 0 threads found for "killer features of clawdbot"
After: 7 threads found including r/LocalLLaMA (43pts), r/selfhosted (26pts)
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- Skill now works without any API keys using WebSearch fallback
- Shows promo banner marketing Reddit/X data when keys are missing
- Partial mode (one key) shows shorter tip for the missing source
- Updated SKILL.md to document three modes: Full, Partial, Web-Only
- Added get_missing_keys() to env.py for promo logic
- Added show_promo(), start_web_only(), show_web_only_complete() to ui.py
- Updated render_compact() to include inline promo for web-only mode
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Previously Reddit was returning ~60% old content (some from 2022).
This commit adds multiple layers of date enforcement:
- Reddit prompt: Explicit from_date/to_date with "fewer results > older results"
- Hard filter: filter_by_date_range() in normalize.py excludes old content
- WebSearch Date Detective: Extracts dates from URLs (/2026/01/24/) and
snippets ("January 24, 2026", "3 days ago")
- WebSearch scoring: +10 bonus for verified dates, -20 penalty for unknown
The skill now guarantees only content from the last 30 days.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add Claude's built-in WebSearch tool as a third research source for
/last30days. This enables the skill to work out of the box with zero
API keys while preserving Reddit/X as the primary sources.
Key changes:
- Add WebSearchItem schema for web results (no engagement metrics)
- Add score_websearch_items() with 55/45 relevance/recency weighting
- Apply -15pt source penalty so WebSearch ranks below Reddit/X
- Add --include-web CLI flag to opt-in to WebSearch
- Return 'web' mode when no API keys configured (zero-config)
- Update render.py with [WEB] source label formatting
When WebSearch is enabled, the script outputs instructions for Claude
to use its built-in WebSearch tool, then synthesize results together.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xAI deprecated search_parameters - now requires Agent Tools API:
- Changed endpoint from /v1/chat/completions to /v1/responses
- Changed from messages array to input array format
- Changed from search_parameters to tools: [{"type": "x_search"}]
- Updated model selection to grok-4-1-fast (required for x_search tool)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Detect if running in real terminal vs captured output
- In TTY: show animated spinner with carriage returns
- In non-TTY: print simple static messages (no animation)
- Prevents output file from exploding with spinner frames
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add LAST30DAYS_DEBUG env var / --debug flag
- Log HTTP requests, responses, and errors
- Show API error details when debug enabled
- Helps diagnose API failures
Usage: python3 last30days.py "topic" --debug
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Wrap xAI search in try/except like Reddit
- Show error message but continue with Reddit results
- Parse function checks for API errors before processing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Show "⚡ CACHED RESULTS (Xh old)" in compact output header
- Add "use --refresh for fresh data" hint
- Track from_cache and cache_age_hours in Report schema
- Update UI to show cache age in stderr message
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Update prompt to search for "site:reddit.com/r/ {topic}"
- Add explicit filtering for /r/*/comments/* URLs
- Block garbage domains (developers.reddit.com, business.reddit.com)
- Make prompt lenient for older threads when recent ones scarce
- Require returning threads found, never empty items
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New ui.py module with colored output and animations
- Animated spinner during Reddit/X searches
- Progress tracking for enrichment phase [1/N]
- Fun random status messages per phase
- Mini ASCII banner at start
- Completion summary with timing
Makes the research feel more alive while waiting!
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
1. Output order: What I learned → TARGET TOOL → KEY PATTERNS → Research Complete → Share vision
2. Fixed Reddit returning empty results - OpenAI was finding URLs but not extracting content
- Updated prompt to explicitly require extraction from search results
- Added "MUST include threads" instruction to prevent empty items
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Report.to_dict() serializes range as {from, to} but constructor
expects range_from/range_to. Added from_dict() classmethod to properly
deserialize cached data, reconstructing all nested objects (Engagement,
Comment, SubScores, RedditItem, XItem).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- SKILL.md: Move "What I learned" BEFORE "Research Complete" stats
- Add error tracking to Report schema (reddit_error, x_error fields)
- Wrap OpenAI API calls in try/catch with clear error messages
- Show explicit error or "no results" messages in compact output
- Fix false positive error detection for null error fields
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- quick: 8-12 sources each, faster response
- default: 20-30 sources each (unchanged behavior)
- deep: 50-70 Reddit, 40-60 X for comprehensive research
Adjusts API timeouts based on depth. Cache keys include depth
so different depths are cached separately.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Research topics across Reddit + X from the last 30 days using
OpenAI and xAI APIs. Features:
- Auto model selection (GPT-5.x, Grok-3)
- Popularity-aware scoring (relevance + recency + engagement)
- Reddit thread enrichment with real metrics
- Near-duplicate detection
- Multiple emit modes (compact, json, context, path)
- 24h caching with --refresh bypass
- NUX for API key setup
- 87 passing unit tests
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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