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+"""Recency analysis — find most recently modified files."""
+
+import subprocess
+import os
+from datetime import datetime
+
+
+def find_recent_files(target, n=10, show_hidden=False):
+    """Find the n most recently modified files using find and stat.
+
+    Returns a list of dicts: {path, name, modified, modified_human}.
+    """
+    # Build find command
+    cmd = ["find", target, "-type", "f"]
+    if not show_hidden:
+        cmd.extend(["-not", "-path", "*/.*"])
+    cmd.extend(["-printf", "%T@\t%p\n"])
+
+    try:
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30,
+        )
+    except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, FileNotFoundError):
+        return []
+
+    if result.returncode != 0:
+        return []
+
+    # Parse and sort by timestamp descending
+    entries = []
+    for line in result.stdout.strip().split("\n"):
+        if not line.strip():
+            continue
+        parts = line.split("\t", 1)
+        if len(parts) != 2:
+            continue
+        try:
+            ts = float(parts[0])
+        except ValueError:
+            continue
+        entries.append((ts, parts[1]))
+
+    entries.sort(key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True)
+
+    recent = []
+    for ts, path in entries[:n]:
+        dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(ts)
+        recent.append({
+            "path": path,
+            "name": os.path.basename(path),
+            "modified": ts,
+            "modified_human": dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),
+        })
+
+    return recent