Discourse Skill for Claude
Scans HN, Lobsters, Reddit, and tech blogs for community experience reports. Use when gathering practitioner opinions on a technology or approach.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market --skill discourseThe instruction itself
6 sections, as written by the authorDiscourse Search
When To Use
- Gathering community opinions on a technology or approach
- Finding experience reports from HN, Reddit, or Lobsters
When NOT To Use
- Academic research (use
/tome:papers) - Code examples (use
/tome:code-search)
Scan community channels for discussions on a topic.
Channels
- Hacker News: Algolia API at hn.algolia.com
- Lobsters: WebSearch with site:lobste.rs
- Reddit: JSON API (append .json to URLs)
- Tech blogs: WebSearch targeting curated domains
Workflow
- Build search URLs/queries per channel using
tome.channels.discourse.* functions
- Execute via WebFetch (APIs) or WebSearch (fallback)
- Parse responses into Finding objects
- Merge across sources with source attribution
Exit Criteria
- [ ] At least two community channels (HN, Lobsters, Reddit, or
tech blogs) queried per invocation
- [ ] HN results fetched via Algolia API at
hn.algolia.com
(WebFetch); WebSearch used as fallback if the API is
unreachable
- [ ] Each Finding object includes a
sourcefield identifying
which channel (HN, Lobsters, Reddit, or blog) it came from
- [ ] If all WebFetch and WebSearch calls fail for every channel,
the failure is reported explicitly rather than returning
fabricated or empty findings
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How to use it
Take athola/discourse from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.