Our review
Gets the current date before performing web searches or date-sensitive tasks, ensuring the correct year is used.
Strengths
- Avoids stale results by using the current year
- Simple and quick to execute
- Automatically invoked before web searches involving a year
Limitations
- Does not handle time zones or advanced date formatting
- Only extracts the year, no other date arithmetic
- Relies on executing a system shell command
Use this skill before any web search that includes a year or temporal context to ensure up-to-date results.
Avoid this skill if the user explicitly requests a past year or a fixed historical date.
Security analysis
SafeThe skill only runs the harmless `date` command to retrieve the current date. It does not perform any destructive actions, exfiltrate data, or execute external scripts. No security risk.
No concerns found
Examples
Search for 'Next.js best practices 2024' and update the year to the current year before searching.name: today description: Get today's date for web searches and date-sensitive tasks. Auto-invoke before any WebSearch that includes a year (e.g., "React 2024", "Python 2025"), when searching for current documentation, latest releases, or recent information. Ensures searches use the correct current year instead of outdated dates.
Today's Date
Get the current date before performing web searches or date-sensitive operations.
Instructions
- Run
date "+%Y-%m-%d"to get today's date - Extract the current year from the result
- Use this year in web search queries instead of any assumed or hardcoded year
- Report the current date, then proceed with the task using correct dates
When to use
- Before web searches that would include a year (e.g., "React Query 2024" should become "React Query 2025" if we're in 2025)
- When searching for "latest", "current", "recent", or "up-to-date" documentation
- When the user asks about recent releases, current versions, or contemporary information
- Any task where using an outdated year would return stale results
Example
If asked to search for "Next.js best practices 2024" and today is 2025-12-25:
- Get current date: 2025-12-25
- Update search to: "Next.js best practices 2025"
- Perform the corrected search
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