Discourse

Skill athola/claude-night-market/plugins/tome/skills/discourse

Scans HN, Lobsters, Reddit, and tech blogs for community experience reports. Use when gathering practitioner opinions on a technology or approach.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill discourse

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SKILL.md

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Discourse 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 source field 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

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.