Survey a topic across YouTube, GitHub, the web, and the Research skill, then rank findings by relevance, reach, recency, and distinctiveness. The report summarizes how thinking has changed, what is mainstream now, and which people or sources appear to be moving ahead, with links for frontier claims.
Maps any topic's zeitgeist and frontier — sweeps YouTube, GitHub, the web and the Research skill, ranks everything down to the vital few by relevance, reach, recency and outlier-ness, then reports the past meta, the current mainstream meta, and where the forward thinkers are heading, every frontier claim linked. USE WHEN pareto, pareto this, run pareto on, zeitgeist, what's the zeitgeist on, what's the meta on, what is the current meta, where is thinking on X heading, who are the forward thinkers on, who is ahead of the curve on, what are the big thinkers saying about, top content on a topic, vital few. NOT FOR answering a specific factual question (Research), analyzing one piece of content (ExtractWisdom), or AI industry news digests (Upgrade NewsDigest; security news SecurityUpdates).
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See how to installPareto gathers information about a topic from YouTube, GitHub, the web, and the Research skill. It ranks relevant material by factors such as reach, recency, and distinctiveness, then narrows the results to the most useful findings.
The report describes earlier views, the current mainstream, people or sources that appear to be ahead, and possible directions for the field. Claims about emerging trends include links so readers can check the supporting sources. If one source is unavailable, the search continues with the others and identifies the source that failed.
Use Pareto when you want to quickly understand which ideas are repeated across a field and which developments are new. It can help you find articles and videos worth reading, identify people to follow, or see how the dominant thinking has changed over time.
YouTube search requires a YOUTUBE_API_KEY, and web search requires a PERPLEXITY_API_KEY. GitHub search uses an authenticated gh CLI. YouTube has an API quota, so results from that source may be missing when the limit is reached.
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Most of what gets said about a topic is repetition. A few people and a few pieces carry the signal, and some of them are early. Pareto sweeps wide, ranks down to that vital few, and reports how thinking has moved and where it is going next.
| Intent | Trigger | File |
|---|---|---|
| Run | any topic: "pareto X", "what's the zeitgeist on X", "where are the forward thinkers going on X" | Intents/Run.md |
| File | Read when |
|---|---|
Tools/<Name>.help.md | calling or changing Collect (the sweep), Rank (scoring to the vital few) or Check (the report gate): flags, env, output shape |
Setup.md | first-time setup: the four sources, the keys and accounts each needs, and a read-only sweep to prove them |
Credentials are env var names only, read from the LifeOS .env: YOUTUBE_API_KEY (YouTube Data API v3), PERPLEXITY_API_KEY (web search). GitHub uses the authenticated gh CLI.
First-time setup for these sources is in Setup.md.
User customizations live at <configRoot>/LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/Pareto/ (configRoot is $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when set, else ~/.claude). When that directory exists, its PREFERENCES.md (for example default sources, sweep size, or sources to skip) overrides the defaults in Intents/Run.md; when it is absent, the defaults stand.
last_updated is the crawl date, not the publish date. Used as a fallback it dated a 2025-09 arXiv paper to 2026-09 (first real run, 2026-09-25). The collector now leaves such items undated; date claims in the report come from the page itself.Example 1: A topic sweep
User: "Pareto agentic coding"
→ Run intent
→ ~/Downloads/pareto-agentic-coding-<date>.md: past meta, current meta, frontier, who to follow
Example 2: Phrased as a question
User: "Where are the big thinkers going on personal AI infrastructure?"
→ Same intent; the console summary leads with the one-sentence shift and two names
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