developer-listening

developer-listening is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jonathimer/devmarketing-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to monitoring developer conversations about your product, competitors, and related problems across places such as GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Twitter/X, and Discord.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to track keywords, understand developer sentiment, find people who need help, discover engagement opportunities, and collect unfiltered feedback.
Why use it?
Developers often discuss tools and frustrations in technical communities rather than business survey channels. Monitoring these conversations can reveal product feedback, support needs, content gaps, and competitive mentions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/developer-listening
Any agent
npx skills add jonathimer/devmarketing-skills --skill developer-listening
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 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,548 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00096 $0.01548
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00774
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00155

Measured 5d ago against content hash 27ff98538391, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

developer-listening 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 5d 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/developer-listening/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Developer Listening

Monitor developer conversations across platforms to understand sentiment, find engagement opportunities, and gather competitive intelligence.

Overview

Developer listening is the practice of systematically monitoring what developers say about your brand, competitors, and the problems your product solves. Unlike traditional social listening, developer listening requires monitoring technical platforms where developers actually spend time: GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit programming communities, Stack Overflow, Twitter/X, and Discord servers.

Effective developer listening helps you:

  • Understand how developers perceive your product
  • Find frustrated users who need help (and might churn)
  • Discover engagement opportunities before competitors
  • Gather unfiltered product feedback
  • Track competitive positioning in real conversations
  • Identify content gaps and documentation issues

Setting Up Your Monitoring Strategy

1. Define Your Keyword Categories

Before setting up monitoring, organize keywords into categories:

Brand Keywords:

  • Your product name and common misspellings
  • Your company name
  • Key team members' names (for attribution)
  • Your GitHub org/repos
  • Your Twitter handles

Competitor Keywords:

  • Direct competitor names
  • Competitor product features
  • Competitor pricing/plan names

Problem Keywords:

  • Pain points your product solves
  • Error messages you help with
  • Workflow descriptions ("deploy to kubernetes", "manage API keys")
  • "How do I..." phrases relevant to your space

Buy Intent Keywords:

  • "[category] recommendation"
  • "best [tool type] for [use case]"
  • "looking for [solution]"
  • "alternative to [competitor]"
  • "[competitor] vs"

2. Set Up Monitoring Tools

Choose a social listening tool that aggregates mentions across developer platforms (GitHub, Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Twitter).

Recommended Keyword Structure:

  • Create separate keywords for brand, competitors, and problem spaces
  • Use exact match for brand names to reduce noise
  • Use broader matching for problem keywords
  • Set up negative keywords to filter irrelevant mentions

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 5d ago First seen · 224 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 27ff98538391

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developer-listening is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathimer/devmarketing-skills (86 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,548 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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