community-building

community-building is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jonathimer/devmarketing-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,628 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating and managing developer communities on Discord, Slack, forums, GitHub Discussions, Discourse, or Circle. It covers how to structure channels, welcome members, encourage participation, and moderate harmful behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan community channels, onboarding, engagement programs, moderation rules, platform selection, and growth activities for developer-focused groups.
Why use it?
It helps you choose a suitable community platform and avoid building spaces that are difficult to navigate or poorly matched to your developers. It also gives structure to ongoing engagement and moderation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan community channels, onboarding, engagement programs, moderation rules, platform selection, and growth activities for developer-focused groups.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/community-building
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 jonathimer/devmarketing-skills --skill community-building
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,628 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 $0.00061 $0.02628
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01314
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00263

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2cad35fa9464, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

community-building 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.

skills/community-building/SKILL.md · 401 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 401 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Community Building

This skill helps you build and manage developer communities on Discord, Slack, forums, and other platforms. Covers channel structure, onboarding, engagement programs, handling toxicity, and community-led growth.


Before You Start

Load your audience context first. Read .agents/developer-audience-context.md to understand:

  • Who your developers are (role, seniority, interests)
  • Where they already hang out (to avoid competing platforms)
  • What problems they discuss (community topic focus)
  • How they communicate (formal vs. casual tone)

If the context file doesn't exist, run the developer-audience-context skill first.


Platform Selection

Comparison Matrix

Platform Best For Pros Cons
Discord Developer tools, gaming, OSS Real-time, rich features, free Can be chaotic, less enterprise
Slack Enterprise, B2B SaaS Professional, familiar Expensive at scale, message limits
GitHub Discussions OSS projects Integrated, async, searchable Less community feel
Discourse Long-form, searchable SEO, threading, ownership Maintenance, hosting costs
Circle Courses, paid communities Courses integration, clean Paid, less developer-native

Decision Framework

If your audience is... Consider
Individual developers, OSS Discord
Enterprise teams Slack
Technical, async-preferred GitHub Discussions
Mixed, need searchability Discourse
Course/education based Circle

Channel Structure

Discord Channel Template

📢 INFORMATION
├── #welcome — First landing, rules, links
├── #announcements — Official updates (admin-only posting)
├── #rules — Code of conduct
└── #introductions — New member intros

💬 GENERAL
├── #general — Main discussion
├── #off-topic — Non-project chat
└── #show-what-you-built — Share projects

❓ SUPPORT
├── #help — General questions
├── #troubleshooting — Bug help
└── #feature-requests — Suggestions

🔧 TECHNICAL
├── #backend — Backend discussions
├── #frontend — Frontend discussions
└── #devops — Infrastructure discussions

🤝 COMMUNITY
├── #jobs — Job postings (if allowed)
├── #events — Meetups, conferences
└── #content — Blog posts, videos

📚 RESOURCES
├── #learning — Tutorials, courses
└── #tools — Useful tools and libraries

Read the full file on GitHub · 401 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 · 401 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 2cad35fa9464

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community-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathimer/devmarketing-skills (86 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,628 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 2026-08-30.

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