community-signals

community-signals is a skill for Claude Code from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,302 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that searches Hacker News and Reddit discussions for signs of buying interest, such as looking for alternatives, reporting product problems, or planning a migration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify developers discussing tools, scaling problems, do-it-yourself solutions, competitor pain, or recommendations.
Why use it?
It helps find people expressing a relevant need publicly instead of relying only on contact forms or purchased lists.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to identify developers discussing tools, scaling problems, do-it-yourself solutions, competitor pain, or recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/community-signals
About the project

Goose Skills is a library of workflows and data APIs that lets coding agents handle growth and go-to-market work such as advertising, social media, content, SEO, lead generation, and customer research. It is intended for teams using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and similar agents. The catalogue entries are its reusable skills.

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 1,202 stars · on GitHub · gooseworks.ai

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.

Any agent
npx skills add gooseworks-ai/goose-skills --skill community-signals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gooseworks-ai/goose-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.

agentmods badge for community-signals

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/community-signals/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/community-signals)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/community-signals"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gooseworks-ai/goose-skills/community-signals/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 community-signals

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,302 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Data Exfiltration · line 29
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
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 $0.00047 $0.03302
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01651
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00660
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00330

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2b03f89ffdfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

community-signals 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/community_signals.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/lead-generation/packs/lead-gen-devtools/community-signals/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Community Signals

Extract high-intent leads from developer community forums by detecting buying signals in public discussions. Currently supports Hacker News and Reddit.

When to Use

  • User wants to find leads from developer communities or forums
  • User wants to identify people publicly expressing pain with competitors
  • User wants to find people asking "what tool should I use for X"
  • User mentions Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow, or developer forums as lead sources
  • User describes prospects who discuss tools, complain about solutions, or ask for recommendations in public forums
  • User wants to find developers who built DIY/hacky solutions for problems the user's product solves

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.9+ with requests and optionally python-dotenv
  • Apify API token in .env (for Reddit scraping)
  • No auth needed for Hacker News (free Algolia API)
  • Working directory: the project root containing this skill

Phase 1: Collect Context

Step 1: Gather Product & ICP Information

Ask the user for the following. Do NOT proceed without this — the entire query generation depends on it.

"To find the right leads from developer communities, I need to understand:

  1. What does your product do? (one-liner)
  2. Who are your competitors? (list the main ones)
  3. What specific problems does your product solve? (the pain points)
  4. Who is your ideal buyer? (role, company type, tech stack)
  5. Any specific technologies or keywords associated with your space?"

If the user has already provided this context (e.g., from running the github-repo-signals skill), use that — don't ask again.

Phase 2: Generate Search Queries

Step 2: Generate Queries Across 9 Categories

Based on the user's product info, generate 3-5 search queries per category. These are the fixed categories — do not skip any:

Category 1: Alternative Seeking (intent score: 9) People actively looking to switch tools.

  • Pattern: "[competitor] alternative", "alternative to [competitor]", "looking for [product type]"
  • Example: "twilio alternative", "alternative to agora", "looking for video SDK"

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 332 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 2b03f89ffdfe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

community-signals is a skill published in the GitHub repository gooseworks-ai/goose-skills (1,202 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,302 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 2026-09-03.

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