A collection of canned prompts I run in Claude Code to broadly keep abreast of different topics and do elaborate web searches.
These prompts are designed for autonomous research and synthesis tasks — scanning arXiv, crawling the web for signals, scouting opportunities, and surfacing emerging themes in AI and technology.
- frontier_ai-researcher.md — Daily arXiv scan for cutting-edge AI research (5 papers)
- fronteir_ai_theme_researcher.md — Thematic synthesis of frontier AI research through a specific lens
- theme-surfer-ai.md — Discover emerging, non-obvious themes across frontier AI materials
- theme-spider.md — Web-wide signal harvesting for early AI patterns and tensions
- improve-prompting-researcher.md — arXiv papers for improving LLM prompting (non-technical focus)
- pop-sci-crawler.md — Crawl the web for AI vibes, anecdotes, and informal narratives
- pop-sci-deep-dive.md — Deep-dive investigation into a single AI topic across the web
- broad-research-scout.md — Wide-spectrum literature and discourse scan (academic, policy, industry, pop, weird)
- broad-research-scout-part-2-weird.md — Follow-up prompt for weirdness and frontier deep dives
- opportunity-scout.md — Weekly scan for public-interest tech consulting, RFPs, fellowships, and grants
- cto-opportunity-scout.md — Weekly scan for fractional CTO and senior engineering leadership opportunities
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