A sophisticated trend-tracking agent that uses heartbeat cycles and cross-platform validation to deliver high-signal alerts on emerging internet narratives.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install trending-now
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install trending-now using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Trending Now?
Trending Now is a professional-grade monitoring tool designed to cut through the noise of the modern internet. By leveraging Openclaw Skills, this agent performs automated research cycles across diverse platforms like X, Reddit, and Google News to identify, validate, and score emerging trends. Unlike simple keyword trackers, it emphasizes signal strength and narrative velocity, ensuring you only receive updates that are fresh, verified, and relevant to your specific interests.
The skill operates on a heartbeat-based logic, maintaining a local memory of monitored topics and historical runs. It prioritizes data integrity by requiring timestamped evidence from multiple independent sources before confirming a trend. This makes it an essential asset for digital marketers, researchers, and brand managers who need to respond to shifts in public conversation with speed and accuracy.
Trending Now Use Cases
- Tracking real-time brand sentiment and industry-specific narrative shifts across social media.
- Monitoring breaking news and cultural movements with high-velocity signals from X.
- Validating community-level interest and depth on niche topics through Reddit integration.
- Automating daily or hourly heartbeat research cycles for competitive intelligence.
- Filtering out viral noise to focus on verified trends with actionable business impact.
How Trending Now Works
- Define your topic scope including specific intent, exclusion criteria, and geographic boundaries.
- Initialize the heartbeat protocol which triggers automated scans at pre-defined intervals.
- Gather evidence from multiple sources including X for speed and Google Trends for momentum.
- Apply freshness scoring to classify findings as hot, recent, or stale based on their age.
- Execute signal strength validation to compare volume shifts and cross-source confirmation.
- Generate decision-ready alerts that summarize what changed, why it matters, and the recommended next action.
Trending Now Setup
Begin by installing the skill through the command line:
clawhub install trending-now
Upon first use, you must configure your monitoring preferences and topic watchlists. Access the setup documentation to define your integration behavior:
# Review the setup guide to lock integration parameters
cat ~/trending-now/setup.md
Ensure your environment has active web access for live trend validation and verify that your local directory ~/trending-now/ is initialized for memory storage.
Trending Now Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes its monitoring state and history within the ~/trending-now/ directory using the following structure:
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
memory.md |
Primary configuration for activation behavior, scope, and monitoring preferences. |
topics.md |
List of active topics, query variants, and relevance boundaries. |
runs.md |
Detailed history of heartbeat research cycles and change detection logs. |
alerts.md |
Record of sent alerts, including confidence scores and outcome tracking. |
HEARTBEAT.md |
The operating contract defining topic rules and output formats. |
Trending Now Advanced Features
- Multi-platform cross-validation ensures signals are verified across at least two independent sources.
- Automated freshness scoring prioritizes signals less than 6 hours old for maximum impact.
- Decision-ready alert formatting provides concise, mobile-friendly updates with clear calls to action.
- Customizable heartbeat intervals allow for flexible monitoring tailored to specific timezones and active hours.
- Seamless integration with other Openclaw Skills like competitor-monitoring and in-depth-research for expanded intelligence workflows.
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