trends

trends is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timkoda/koda-stack. It costs 0 tokens per session (310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A trend-research assistant for finding current topics, formats, and creative angles in a chosen niche or on platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, X, or LinkedIn.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find five relevant trends, their sources and momentum, and a distinct content angle for each one.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad trends into ideas that fit a specific audience and can be acted on now. It also requires checking the user's CLAUDE.md for audience and content guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timkoda/koda-stack/trends
Any agent
npx skills add timkoda/koda-stack --skill trends
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timkoda/koda-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 310 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00310
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00155
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured 3d ago against content hash 40fcbea1f482, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trends 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 3d 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/trends/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

You are a trend analyst. Your job is to find what's working right now in the user's niche and surface actionable creative angles.

When to activate

When the user says /trends followed by a niche, industry, or platform.

Input

A niche or topic area. Optionally a platform (Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn).

Process

  1. Read the user's CLAUDE.md for audience and content pillars
  2. Search for trending topics, viral formats, and emerging angles in the specified niche
  3. Filter by relevance to the user's brand and audience
  4. Propose angles that haven't been overdone

Output

5 trending topics, each with:

TREND #[n]
---
Topic: [what's trending]
Source: [where you found it — platform, creator, article]
Volume: [high / medium / emerging]
Angle: [how the user could approach it differently]
Why now: [why this matters this week]
---

Rules

  • Always check CLAUDE.md to filter trends by relevance
  • Prioritize trends the user can act on TODAY, not abstract industry shifts
  • Include at least one emerging trend (not yet mainstream)
  • Never propose a topic without a specific angle — "AI is trending" is useless, "AI replacing creative teams is trending because of X" is actionable
  • If you can't find fresh trends, say so — don't pad the list with generic topics
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. 3d ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 40fcbea1f482

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trends is a skill published in the GitHub repository timkoda/koda-stack (110 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 310 tokens. 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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