blog-discourse

blog-discourse is a skill for Claude Code from AgriciDaniel/claude-blog. It costs 168 tokens per session (3,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow that finds recent public conversations about a topic on sites such as Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, dev.to, and Medium, then writes a structured brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic’s recent opinions, questions, complaints, and discussion across public websites. It can create a Markdown or JSON brief, use a wider date range, or work from search results you already collected.
Why use it?
It helps you see what practitioners and customers are saying now, instead of relying only on authoritative sources or older information. It uses web search, so no platform API keys are needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/discourse_research.py \.

Part of the claude-blog plugin — 32 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a topic’s recent opinions, questions, complaints, and discussion across public websites. It can create a Markdown or JSON brief, use a wider date range, or work from search results you already collected.

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About the project

claude-blog is a Claude Code skill suite for planning, writing, optimizing, auditing, localizing, and refreshing blog content. It is for content and SEO workflows that produce articles and related publishing artifacts while checking drafts against defined delivery criteria. The catalogue entries provide the skills, agents, plugins, and instruction used by this workflow.

AgriciDaniel/claude-blog · 2,116 stars · on GitHub · claude-blog.md

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-blog
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agricidaniel/claude-blog/blog-discourse

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-blog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills.

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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,293 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 24 Jul 2026
  • Snyk warn 24 Jul 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, 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 Agent Snooping · line 105
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 109
    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.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00168 $0.03293
Opus 5 $0.00084 $0.01647
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00329

Measured 11d ago against content hash fd4cbf404f44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

blog-discourse 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 11d 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.

brain/.raw/sources/claude-blog-skill/skills/blog-discourse/SKILL.md · 223 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 223 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Blog Discourse: Real Discourse Research, API-Free

blog-discourse is the recency + engagement lens that blog-researcher (authority-first) lacks. It asks: in the last 30 days, what are practitioners and customers actually saying about this topic on the public web?

Adapted from the methodology of last30days-skill (Matt Van Horn, MIT, https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill). The upstream uses platform APIs; this sub-skill uses WebSearch with platform-targeted site operators. No API keys required.

Commands

Command Purpose
/blog discourse <topic> Produce a discourse brief at project-root DISCOURSE.md
/blog discourse <topic> --days 90 Widen the freshness window from 30 to 90 days
/blog discourse <topic> --input results.json Skip search; build the brief from a pre-gathered results file. The flag name matches scripts/discourse_research.py --input directly.
/blog discourse <topic> --output path.md Write markdown to a chosen output path and print structured JSON without markdown to stdout.
/blog discourse <topic> --format json Print the full JSON brief to stdout when no --output path is used.
/blog discourse <topic> --decomposition questions.txt Pass newline-delimited decomposition questions into the helper.

Workflow

Phase 0: Topic Pre-Flight (mandatory)

Before any search, run the four keyword-trap checks from skills/blog/references/research-quality.md (Class 1 demographic shopping, Class 2 numeric trap, Class 3 overly-literal phrase, Class 4 generic single-noun). If the topic matches a class:

  1. Emit a single one-line note: Pre-Flight: matched Class N. Action: <reframe or clarifying question>.
  2. If the action is a clarifying question, STOP and wait for the user.
  3. If the action is a reframe, proceed with the reframed query and document the reframe in the brief.

Running discourse research on a trap topic wastes WebSearch calls and produces noise.

Phase 1: Topic Decomposition (Step 0.55)

Read the full file on GitHub · 223 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. 11d ago First seen · 223 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A fd4cbf404f44

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blog-discourse is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/claude-blog (2,116 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 3,293 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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