AugmentClaude

lastMonth

Get the exact date range for the previous calendar month in ISO format.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

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  2. Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.

    This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/lastmonth-chaitanyagiri/ — the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

    Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

    Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

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  3. Restart Claude Code.

    Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.

  4. Just ask Claude.

    Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.

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When Claude uses it

Resolve "lastMonth" to a concrete ISO date range relative to your run time — the previous full calendar month. Returns inclusive civil dates plus exact UTC instants so you have temporal context without computing dates by hand. Read-only: no writes, no network. Use before a task over last month (monthly reports, month-end summaries).

What this skill does

/lastMonth

Get the concrete date range for the previous full calendar month by running the bundled resolver:

node "$AGENT_DIR/.claude/skills/temporal/when.mjs" lastMonth

It prints a human-readable line plus a JSON record:

  • start / end — inclusive civil dates (YYYY-MM-DD) in your local timezone
  • startUtc / endExclusiveUtc — the same window as a half-open [start, end) range of exact UTC instants, for timestamp-based queries
  • days, timezone, asOf — the span, your timezone, and when this resolved

Use the returned dates as the time bounds for the task at hand. Do not derive dates by hand — this resolver is the source of truth. For the full window list or an arbitrary range (e.g. last45days, last6months), see the /temporal skill.

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