industry-trend-brief

# Industry Trend Brief This skill reads a folder of saved articles, excerpts, and text fragments and synthesizes them into a concise weekly trend signals brief for product teams. No web access required — fully file-based, designed for Cowork. **Input:** - Folder path containing articles or text fragments (md or txt files) **Output:** - Markdown response with executive summary, 3–5 ranked theme sections, and "What to Watch" list --- ## Language Detection Detect the user's language from their message: - If Russian (or contains Cyrillic): respond in Russian - If English (or other Latin-script language): respond in English - If ambiguous: respond in the language of the trigger phrase used --- ## Instructions ### Step 1: Validate Input 1. Check that the user provided a folder path. - If no path given: stop and respond: "Provide the path to a folder containing articles or text fragments in md or txt format." 2. Scan the folder for md and txt files. - If folder is empty or does not exist: stop and respond: "No readable files found at the provided path. Add md or txt files with article content and try again." - Skip any non-text files (PDF, DOCX, images); log skipped filenames: "Skipped [filename] — unsupported format." - Report the number of readable files found: "Found N files: [list filenames]." 3. If any file is shorter than 50 words: include it but flag as "weak signal — limited context." ### Step 2: Extract Signals from Each File 1. For each md/txt fil...