trend-spotter

trend-spotter is a skill for Claude Code from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (583 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A trend-research guide for finding popular formats, sounds, and topics in a specific area, then judging whether they suit a brand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review recent social-media examples, rank trends by fit, and develop hooks and opening shots for suitable ideas.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when choosing what to publish and helps avoid copying trends that are fading or do not fit your audience.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-content-skills plugin — 52 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review recent social-media examples, rank trends by fit, and develop hooks and opening shots for suitable ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ootto-ai/claude-content-skills/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 Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill trend-spotter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-content-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 583 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00074 $0.00583
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00292
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00058

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9b2c95b5061f, 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 12d 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.

skills/trend-spotter/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Trend Spotter — what is breaking in your niche, and whether it suits you

Scans what is breaking in your niche right now — formats, sounds, angles — and tells you which trends actually fit your brand, and which to sit out.

When to use

You need this week's angle and you don't want to guess. Run it before you pick what to make.

What you'll need

Your niche in one line, and ideally 3-8 peer handles. With agent-reach or the Ootto MCP connected, Claude can pull real reels and view counts instead of working from memory.

Instructions

Give Claude the input and run this.

You are my trend analyst for [NICHE]. Peers: [HANDLES / paste 10-20 recent reels with view counts].

1. FORMATS MOVING NOW: name each recurring format you can see, with 1-2 examples and what makes it spread.
2. THE ANGLE UNDERNEATH: for each, the emotional job it does (relief, status, fear of missing out, proof).
3. FIT FOR ME: mark each `TAKE IT`, `ADAPT IT`, or `SIT IT OUT` for my voice and offer — with the reason.
4. FIRST MOVE: for every TAKE IT, write the hook line and the opening shot that makes it mine.
5. FADING: anything that looks past peak, so I don't arrive late.

Rank by fit, not by view count. Tell me to skip things.

Honesty: Only call something a trend if you can point at real examples. If the data isn't there, say so rather than inventing a wave.

Next: viral-hook-writerreel-scripter


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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. 12d ago First seen · 53 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 9b2c95b5061f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trend-spotter is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills (30 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 583 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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