Today's Agent Skill: Industry Trend Report Compiler
What It Does
Keeping up with what's happening in your industry feels like a part-time job — there are newsletters, trade publications, competitor websites, and industry reports to monitor, and most small business owners simply don't have the time. This skill produces a structured monthly trend brief from your list of sources in a format you can read in ten minutes.
How It Works
The agent takes a list of your industry's key publications, competitor names, and relevant topics to monitor, then produces a structured trend report template organized under five standard categories: Market Shifts, Competitor Activity, Regulatory Changes, Technology Developments, and Customer Behavior Trends. It also generates a monthly refresh prompt library you can reuse each month.
How to Deploy It
Run this skill in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or Windsurf by providing your industry description, up to five key topics to monitor, and any competitor names or trade publications relevant to your market. For fully automated monthly reports, combine this skill with Perplexity AI's deep research mode or integrate it with a web search tool in Cursor or Windsurf to pull live source content each month.
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## Description
Generates a structured monthly industry trend brief organized under five standard categories (Market Shifts, Competitor Activity, Regulatory Changes, Technology Developments, Customer Behavior Trends), along with a reusable monthly prompt library for updating the report with fresh source content.
## Trigger
Invoke when the user says "compile an industry trend report," "summarize what's happening in my industry," "help me monitor competitors," or provides a list of topics, publications, or competitors to track.
## Input
- Industry or business type (1-2 sentences describing the market)
- Up to 5 key trend topics to monitor (e.g., "AI adoption in retail," "supply chain lead times," "labor market for skilled trades")
- Up to 5 competitor names or types (e.g., "national chains entering local markets," specific company names)
- Up to 5 publication or source names to monitor (trade journals, industry newsletters, analyst firms, relevant government agencies)
- Optional: any specific event in the past month (a regulatory announcement, a competitor move, a market shift) the user already knows about
- Optional: prior month's report to identify what has changed since last timeCopy the full SKILL.md and drop it into your agent's skills directory to activate this skill.