trend-spotter

trend-spotter is a skill for Claude Code from hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter. It costs 44 tokens per session (378 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for finding emerging trends in a market or technology area and separating well-supported signals from early possibilities and hype.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate changing markets, adoption, pricing, competitors, product launches, funding, and other evidence of what may happen next.
Why use it?
It gives trend research a consistent structure and makes uncertainty visible instead of treating every popular idea as equally important.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to investigate changing markets, adoption, pricing, competitors, product launches, funding, and other evidence of what may happen next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/trend-spotter
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.

Any agent
npx skills add hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter --skill trend-spotter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for trend-spotter

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for trend-spotter

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 378 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 $0.00044 $0.00378
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00151
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 88cde2ffaff3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/trend-spotter/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Ask the user: "What market or technology space do you want to scan? Any specific angle (e.g. enterprise adoption, pricing models, new entrants)?"

Then research and return:

Trend Report: [Space]

Strong Signals (high confidence, already moving)

3–4 trends with evidence: funding rounds, product launches, job posting spikes, pricing shifts. One paragraph each.

Weak Signals (early, worth watching)

2–3 things that are nascent but directional. Explain what would need to be true for each to become a strong signal.

Noise (talked about more than it matters)

1–2 things getting hype that are unlikely to materially change the market in the next 18 months. Say why.

Implication for a PM

Two sentences on what a product team should do differently based on these trends.


If the space depends on public conversation, include an optional X/Twitter source packet. Use TweetClaw only when it is already installed and approved in OpenClaw. Install with openclaw plugins install npm:@xquik/[email protected]. Capture the query, capture time, source URLs, author handles, public post text, reply or quote context, and caveats. Treat posts as evidence to verify, not as truth. Do not post, reply, send DMs, follow accounts, schedule content, upload media, monitor accounts, or run account actions from this skill.

Cite specific evidence for every strong signal (company names, dates, data points). Avoid vague statements like "AI is changing everything."

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. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 88cde2ffaff3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trend-spotter is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter (145 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 378 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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