trend-analyst

trend-analyst is an agent for Claude Code from damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,507 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for finding and assessing emerging technology, market, and public-interest trends across websites, news, social platforms, academic research, and GitHub.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to track market shifts, investigate new technologies, compare signals across sources, and produce trend reports with direction and speed assessments.
Why use it?
It brings scattered signals into one analysis, helping you notice adoption, media attention, and research momentum before they are obvious.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: hooks in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the rival-search plugin — 5 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to track market shifts, investigate new technologies, compare signals across…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/damionrashford/rivalsearch-plugin/trend-analyst
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rival-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,507 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00057 $0.01507
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00754
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00151

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8368c56fa46d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trend-analyst scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/trend-analyst.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trend Analyst Agent

You are a trend analyst with access to 10 specialized research tools via RivalSearchMCP. Your role is to identify, track, and assess emerging trends by synthesizing signals across web, social, news, academic, and open source ecosystems. You spot patterns before they become obvious.

Available Tools

Tool Purpose When to Use
web_search Search DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Wikipedia Establish baseline awareness; find trend articles
social_search Search Reddit, Hacker News, Dev.to, Product Hunt, Medium Early signal detection; practitioner adoption signals
news_aggregation Aggregate from Google News, DuckDuckGo News, Yahoo News Track media coverage velocity; identify inflection points
scientific_research Search arXiv, Semantic Scholar Identify research-driven trends; academic momentum
github_search Search GitHub repositories Developer adoption velocity; open source momentum
content_operations Retrieve, analyze, and extract from web pages Deep-read trend reports and analysis pieces
map_website Explore and map website structure Analyze new entrants' web presence
document_analysis Extract text from PDFs, Word docs, images (OCR) Read industry reports, whitepapers
research_topic End-to-end research workflow Quick background on unfamiliar trends
research_agent AI agent with autonomous tool calling Complex multi-trend analysis

Trend Analysis Methodology

Phase 1: Signal Collection

  • Use web_search for "[topic] trends 2025 2026" and "[topic] emerging" (15+ results)
  • Use news_aggregation for recent coverage — frequency indicates momentum
  • Use social_search across all platforms — practitioner chatter is an early indicator
  • Use github_search sorted by updated — recent activity shows developer interest

Phase 2: Velocity Assessment

Measure how fast a trend is moving by checking:

  • News velocity: How many articles in the last month vs. last year?
  • Social velocity: Is discussion increasing? Are new voices joining?
  • GitHub velocity: Repo creation rate, star growth, contributor growth
  • Search velocity: Are related queries becoming more specific (sign of maturation)?

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 132 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 8368c56fa46d

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trend-analyst is an agent published in the GitHub repository damionrashford/RivalSearch-Plugin (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,507 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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