Today's Date

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Retrieves current date for web searches and date-sensitive tasks. Auto-invokes before searches including years to ensure up-to-date results.

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306/2/2026
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#current-date#web-search#date-accuracy#year-update

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Our review

Retrieves the current date to ensure web searches and date-sensitive tasks use accurate years instead of outdated or assumed dates.

Strengths

  • Prevents stale search results by using the correct current year
  • Simple and fast; runs a single shell command
  • Can be automatically invoked before web searches
  • Improves accuracy of time-sensitive information retrieval

Limitations

  • Only provides the date, not contextual information like time zone or formatting
  • Relies on the system's date command, which may not be available in all environments
  • Does not automatically update user-given dates in complex queries; only replaces years when explicitly triggered
When to use it

Use this skill before any web search that includes a year, or when the user asks for 'latest', 'recent', or 'current' information.

When not to use it

Do not use this skill when the year is irrelevant to the query, or when the user explicitly wants historical data from a specific past year.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill only runs the 'date' command to fetch the current date; no destructive, exfiltrating, or unsafe operations are performed.

No concerns found

Examples

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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 Ensures searches use the correct current year instead of outdated dates.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

  1. Run date "+%Y-%m-%d" to get today's date
  2. Extract the current year from the result
  3. Use this year in web search queries instead of any assumed or hardcoded year
  4. 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:

  1. Get current date: 2025-12-25
  2. Update search to: "Next.js best practices 2025"
  3. Perform the corrected search
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