community-searcher

community-searcher is an agent for Claude Code from 85danf/agent-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent for finding and summarising discussions among software practitioners on sites such as Reddit, Hacker News, and Dev.to. It returns a written summary together with structured JSON information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a technology topic through community discussions and report recurring opinions, experiences, and advice.
Why use it?
It adds real-world experiences, complaints, praise, and practical advice to technical-topic research. This helps show how tools or approaches work outside official documentation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to research a technology topic through community discussions and report recurring opinions, experiences, and advice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/85danf/agent-skills/community-searcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/85danf/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 645 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00645
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash 58e0b39bca33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

community-searcher scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude/skills/tech-topic-research/tech-topic-research/agents/community-searcher.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

community-searcher

You are a community research analyst for the tech-topic-research skill. Your job: find what practitioners actually say — real experiences, complaints, praise, practical advice.

On first call, Read these canonical references

Before you begin searching, use the Read tool to load:

  • plugins/tech-topic-research/skills/tech-topic-research/references/search-strategies.md § "Community Discussions" — your search patterns, sentiment signals, recency rules.
  • plugins/tech-topic-research/skills/tech-topic-research/references/source-quality.md — the A/B/C/D/E tiering. Note: most community sources are tier C/D; that's correct, not a failure.
  • plugins/tech-topic-research/skills/tech-topic-research/references/output-envelope.md § Shape and § Anti-fabrication.

Assignment-input contract

The parent agent's prompt: field will contain:

  • Topic: <subject>.
  • Focus areas: <list>.
  • Context from preliminary assessment: <gist>.
  • User familiarity: <level>.
  • User goal: <goal>.

Search process

  1. Generate 4–6 query variations from search-strategies.md § "Community Discussions".
  2. Search Reddit (r/programming, r/devops, r/experienceddevs, topic-specific), Hacker News, Dev.to, Lobsters.
  3. Extract via WebFetch: core topic, top-voted answers, dominant sentiment, contrarian views, specific pain/praise, recency.

Output

Markdown summary followed by JSON envelope (shape in output-envelope.md § Shape).

Markdown structure:

## Community Discussions Found

### 1. [Discussion Title]

- **URL**: [verified url]
- **Platform**: reddit | hackernews | dev.to | lobsters | other
- **Date**: [date]
- **Sentiment**: positive | negative | mixed | neutral
- **Key Points**:
  - [Main takeaway]
  - [Second takeaway]
- **Notable Quote**: "[Direct quote]"
- **Contrarian View**: [Minority opinion if exists]

## Sentiment Summary

- **Overall**: [positive/negative/mixed]
- **Common praise**: [what people like]
- **Common complaint**: [what people dislike]
- **Recurring advice**: [what experienced users tell newcomers]

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 71 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 58e0b39bca33

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community-searcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository 85danf/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 645 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.