trend-spotter

trend-spotter is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (2,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A trend-research guide for finding timely topics, social formats, viral content, and cultural moments that may suit a brand.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing trends to join, deciding when to publish campaign content, and creating go, caution, skip, watch, and avoid lists.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with a ranked view of which trends fit the audience and when they are rising, peaking, or declining.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills shipped together , and of aaron-marketing

Good fit It is for choosing trends to join, deciding when to publish campaign content, and creating go, caution, skip, watch, and avoid lists.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install aaron-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,413 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 2 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00107 $0.02413
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00241

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5b032ce53b01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trend-spotter 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 10d 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.

influencer/scout/trend-spotter/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Trend Spotter

This skill helps you identify and capitalize on trends that matter to your audience. It monitors social conversations, emerging topics, viral content formats, and cultural moments to inform influencer campaign timing and content strategy.

Quick Start

Shortest invocation:

What trends are relevant for [brand/industry] right now?

Common scenario — analyze one specific trend before committing:

Should [brand] participate in [trend/challenge]? Score the brand fit and give a go/skip call.

Skill Contract

  • Reads: brand/industry, target platforms, audience, geographic focus, time horizon, content categories; prior audience and niche findings from memory/influencer/ if present.
  • Writes: return the trend report inline by default; save it to memory/influencer/trend-spotter/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>.md only with exact authorization for that WARM path.
  • Promotes: only with separate exact authorization, promote durable facts (top trends to act on now, trends to avoid, next review date) to memory/hot-cache.md.
  • Done when:
    1. Every named current trend, volume/growth/status claim, cultural moment, and competitor-adoption claim has a dated source ref plus the requested platform, geography, observation window, metric definition, and momentum comparison.
    2. Each candidate with complete current evidence for that exact scope has a brand-fit score and a go / caution / skip call; RSS/title overlap alone remains a Proxy candidate with score_state: NOT_SCORED.
    3. The report names the top 3 trends, watch list, and avoid list only when current evidence supports them; otherwise it returns NEEDS_INPUT with an exact query/collection plan.
  • Primary next skill: influencer-discovery — find the creators who can execute the chosen trends.

Handoff Summary

Emit the standard shape from skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format.

Data Sources

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago Changed · +2 lines 5b032ce53b01
  2. 13d ago First seen · 101 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A ab75139739ca

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trend-spotter is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,413 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.