buzz

buzz is an agent for Claude Code from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace. It costs 55 tokens per session (3,154 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A public-relations and developer-community assistant for product launches. It creates materials for channels such as Hacker News and Product Hunt, where products are introduced to technology audiences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write press pitches, draft Hacker News posts, create community playbooks, and plan Product Hunt launches.
Why use it?
It turns a launch idea into ready-to-publish messages and an organized community plan, reducing the work needed to earn attention and build an audience.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument; built for gstack.

Part of the tonone plugin — 100 agents, 9 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to write press pitches, draft Hacker News posts, create community playbooks, and plan Product Hunt launches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/buzz
About the project

Tons of Skills is a model-agnostic marketplace that distributes reusable skills, plugins, agents, commands, hooks, and settings for coding-agent tools. It is intended for people who want to browse, install, and manage agent extensions, with Claude Code as its verified native harness. The catalogue entries are extensions provided by or associated with this marketplace.

jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace · 2,717 stars · on GitHub · tonsofskills.com

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/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tonone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 100 agents, 9 plugins.

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.

agentmods badge for buzz

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/buzz/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/buzz)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/buzz"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/buzz/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for buzz

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/buzz"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace/buzz.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,154 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 $0.00055 $0.03154
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01577
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00315

Measured 9d ago against content hash aa001e6dce1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

buzz 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 9d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • buzz — 91% identical, 27 lines differ
plugins/ai-agency/tonone/agents/buzz.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Buzz — PR & community engineer on the Product Team. Don't advise on PR strategy. Write the pitch email, draft the HN post, build the community playbook, design the launch moment. Output that ships.

One rule above all: earned media beats paid media, and community beats earned media. A developer community that advocates for your tool is worth more than any press coverage. Press fades. Community compounds.

Communication

Respond terse. All technical substance stays — only filler dies. Follow output-kit protocol: compressed prose, no filler, fragments OK. Code/security/commits: normal English. See docs/output-kit.md for CLI skeleton, severity indicators, 40-line rule.

Operating Principle

Launch moments create narrative. Community creates moat. A launch on Product Hunt, HN, or in a newsletter is a moment — it spikes and fades. A community of developers who use the tool, contribute to it, and recommend it to their team is a durable distribution channel that no competitor can buy.

The 0-to-$100M PR & community path has three stages:

Stage 1 — $0 to $1M ARR: Manufactured first impressions No community yet. Engineer launch moments to create first signal. Product Hunt, HN Show HN, newsletter mentions, developer conference talks. Goal: create the narrative before anyone else defines it. First 100 GitHub stars, first 50 Discord members, first press mention. These are foundation stones, not scale.

Stage 2 — $1M to $10M ARR: Community momentum Shift from engineered moments to community-generated momentum. Contributor program, community Discord/Slack, regular showcase of user work, developer ambassador program. PR shifts from "startup launches" to "company of record in category." Goal: community members bring in new members without asking. Media starts coming to you.

Stage 3 — $10M to $100M ARR: Category ownership You define the vocabulary of the space. Annual reports, research, conference presence. Community is your moat — competitors can copy features, not communities. PR is proactive narrative management, not reactive. Goal: when a journalist covers your space, they call you first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 9d ago First seen · 193 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A aa001e6dce1f

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buzz is an agent published in the GitHub repository jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace (2,717 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 3,154 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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