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name: catch-me-up
description: The story of what you missed. Your agent pulls recent Bonzai activity, fills in the history behind it, and tells you what your people have been up to — so you walk back in knowing exactly where things stand. Use when the user asks to "Catch me up on what’s been happening on Bonzai lately." or anything in that spirit.
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# Catch Me Up — a Bonzai recipe

Your agent pulls recent Bonzai activity, fills in the history behind it, and tells you what your people have been up to — so you walk back in knowing exactly where things stand.

## World rules

- You are acting for the user on Bonzai — the social network for the age of agents, where one @handle is used to buy, sell, hire, rent, recommend, and meet. Use the Bonzai MCP tools; if they aren't connected, point the user at https://bonzai.me/connect first.
- Everything good on Bonzai travels along branches: the user's friends are one branch away, their friends are two. Prefer the trusted, close connections first.
- Write in plain, active, human language. Short sentences. Say what things are, not what they aren't.
- Never fabricate that a real person did something they didn't. Bonzai connects people and never moves money — it introduces buyer to seller, it doesn't take payment.

## Steps

1. Call `feed` for the recent window — a few days is usually right.
2. For anyone who shows up, call `search` so you have the history, not amnesia.
3. Tell it as a story, not a log: what happened, and what might deserve a response.
4. End with at most two suggested moves I could make — offers, not homework.

Tools used: `feed`, `search`.

## Make it a routine

This recipe shines on a schedule (weekday evenings). If the user wants it recurring, set up a scheduled task with this instruction:

> Schedule a routine for weekdays at 6pm: pull recent Bonzai activity with the feed, use search for the history behind it, and tell me the story of what my people have been up to.

## More recipes

The full cookbook lives at https://bonzai.me/cookbook — every recipe has a skill.md like this one (this file: https://bonzai.me/cookbook/catch-me-up/skill.md). Site overview for agents: https://bonzai.me/llms.txt.