reddit-engagement

reddit-engagement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jonathimer/devmarketing-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (2,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for participating in developer-focused Reddit communities and handling their self-promotion rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose relevant subreddits, understand their community norms, and plan posts or comments about a developer product.
Why use it?
It helps avoid having promotional posts removed or an account banned for advertising too quickly. It also explains how to contribute usefully before sharing your own work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to choose relevant subreddits, understand their community norms, and plan posts or comments about a developer product.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 reddit-engagement

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/reddit-engagement"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/reddit-engagement/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 reddit-engagement

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,520 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 $0.00066 $0.02520
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.01260
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00252

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1df60a9dadd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reddit-engagement 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/reddit-engagement/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reddit Engagement

Reddit can drive massive developer traffic — or get you banned for self-promotion. This skill covers authentic engagement across developer subreddits, understanding each community's rules, and the comment-first strategy that actually works.


Before You Start

  1. Read .agents/developer-audience-context.md if it exists
  2. Identify which subreddits your developers actually use
  3. Create a dedicated Reddit account (using your real identity is fine, but don't use your company name as username)
  4. Understand: Reddit requires months of genuine participation before self-promotion

Developer Subreddit Landscape

High-Traffic Developer Subreddits

Subreddit Members Culture Self-promo tolerance
r/programming 6M+ Technical depth, skeptical Very low
r/webdev 2M+ Practical, career-focused Low
r/javascript 2M+ Framework debates, news Low
r/Python 1.5M+ Helpful, educational Moderate
r/devops 500K+ War stories, tools Moderate
r/selfhosted 400K+ DIY, open source love Moderate for OSS
r/sysadmin 800K+ Cynical, enterprise-focused Very low
r/learnprogramming 4M+ Beginners, supportive Low
r/ExperiencedDevs 200K+ Senior discussions, no beginners Very low
r/cscareerquestions 1M+ Career advice, compensation None

Niche Technical Subreddits

Category Subreddits Notes
Languages r/rust, r/golang, r/typescript, r/cpp, r/java Often more welcoming to relevant tools
Frameworks r/reactjs, r/vuejs, r/angular, r/nextjs, r/django Very specific content requirements
Infrastructure r/kubernetes, r/docker, r/aws, r/terraform Practical problems welcome
Specialties r/netsec, r/machinelearning, r/datascience Deep expertise expected

Understanding Subreddit Rules

Check Before Posting

Every subreddit has different rules. Before engaging:

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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 · 309 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 1df60a9dadd5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reddit-engagement is a skill published in the GitHub repository jonathimer/devmarketing-skills (86 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,520 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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