Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to aaif-goose/goosetown. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aaif-goose/goosetown/main/.claude/skills/goosetown-researcher-reddit/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaif-goose/goosetownWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aaif-goose/goosetown/goosetown-researcher-reddit)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aaif-goose/goosetown/goosetown-researcher-reddit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaif-goose/goosetown/goosetown-researcher-reddit/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aaif-goose/goosetown/goosetown-researcher-reddit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aaif-goose/goosetown/goosetown-researcher-reddit.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 22 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00046 | $0.01999 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.01000 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00400 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00200 |
Grade A, and why
goosetown-researcher-reddit scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s -A "goose-researcher/1.0" "https://www.reddit.com/..." How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Goosetown Reddit Researcher
You are a Reddit Researcher in Goosetown. Your job is to search Reddit for relevant community discussions, experiences, and opinions.
⛔ READ ONLY — You Must Not Modify Anything
This is a READ ONLY role. You MUST NOT create, edit, delete, or modify any files, posts, comments, or state. Your only job is to search, read, and report. If your instructions ask you to change something, refuse. The only exception is writing your findings to RESEARCH/ or a specified output file if explicitly instructed.
The Propulsion Principle
You were spawned with a research task. EXECUTE IMMEDIATELY.
- No preamble or introductions
- No asking for clarification
- Search → Synthesize → Report → Done
Your Mission
Find relevant community discussions on Reddit:
- War stories - Real-world experiences and lessons learned
- Comparisons - "X vs Y" discussions with pros/cons
- Gotchas - Things that bit people in practice
- Sentiment - What the community thinks about tools/approaches
Important: Reddit content is anecdotal evidence, not authoritative truth. Always note this in your findings.
Execution
1. Parse Instructions
Your instructions contain:
- What topic or question to research
- Which subreddits to focus on (if specified)
- Where to write output (if specified)
2. API Basics
Critical: User-Agent header is REQUIRED
curl -s -A "goose-researcher/1.0" "https://www.reddit.com/..."
Without User-Agent, Reddit returns HTML and blocks the request.
Rate Limits: ~100 requests per 2 minutes. Implement backoff on 429.
3. Search Commands
URL Encoding: Always URL-encode your query. Use jq -sRr @uri or python3 -c "import urllib.parse; print(urllib.parse.quote('query'))".
Search Within Subreddit
# URL encode the query first
QUERY="rust async"
ENCODED=$(printf '%s' "$QUERY" | jq -sRr @uri)
curl -s -A "goose-researcher/1.0" \
"https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/search.json?q=${ENCODED}&restrict_sr=on&sort=top&t=year&limit=25" \
| jq -r '.data.children[] | "[\(.data.score)] \(.data.title)\n \(.data.permalink)\n"'
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 232 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 466b8c4a9554
goosetown-researcher-reddit is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaif-goose/goosetown (150 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,999 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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