distribution-engage

distribution-engage is a skill for Claude Code from Lab2A/metalworks. It costs 190 tokens per session (1,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Reddit participation skill for drafting a disclosed reply to a specific discussion. It takes a real thread identified by a distribution report and checks the draft with a compliance gate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare founder-voiced, disclosed replies for relevant Reddit threads.
Why use it?
It turns audience research into a reviewable response while checking that the reply follows the required disclosure and compliance rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the metalworks plugin — 22 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare founder-voiced, disclosed replies for relevant Reddit threads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lab2a/metalworks/distribution-engage
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 Lab2A/metalworks --skill distribution-engage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lab2A/metalworks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install metalworks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,187 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 $0.00190 $0.01187
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00119

Measured 7d ago against content hash 76e8ea7c3618, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

distribution-engage 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 7d 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.

plugin/skills/distribution-engage/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preamble (run first)

Before any other tool, run the preflight MCP tool (or metalworks preflight on the CLI). If it reports setup issues or that an update is available, surface that to the user in one line and help them resolve it (install the missing extra/key, or pip install -U metalworks) before continuing. Skip only if the user has already passed preflight this session.

Read the reference; never reverse-engineer the source. The moment you need to know how metalworks behaves — provider/model resolution, which source/reader runs, config precedence, an error you hit, or the async run loop — STOP and read docs/operating-metalworks.md (bundled with this plugin) before opening any file under src/. It is the source of truth; do not derive behavior from source. (Full docs: https://metalworks.lab2a.ai/docs.) For a long-running run, poll status with the Monitor tool or a bounded loop — never a blind sleep.

You are drafting one disclosed, founder-voiced Reddit reply for a GEO participation target — a real thread the demand report's distribution_geo stream surfaced (the threads the audience is already asking in). This is Distribution's execution arm: D6 names which thread; you engage it, value-first and compliance-gated. DRAFTING ONLY — a human posts.

Steps

  1. Get a participation target. Run /distribution-geo (or the distribution_geo MCP tool) on the report_id first if you don't have one — each participation_target carries a real permalink, a grounded why (what the audience is asking there), a community, and a suggested_angle. If the user hasn't run a report, point them at /demand-report first.

  2. Call the distribution_engage MCP tool with the report_id and the target's permalink + why (plus community, suggested_angle, and an optional voice). On the CLI: metalworks distribution engage <report_id> --permalink <url> --why "<what they're asking>" --community r/Name --angle "<angle>". It drafts the reply for that exact thread, applies the no-upvote / native-first invariants, and runs the deterministic honesty gate (heuristic_check) over it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 7d ago First seen · 77 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A 76e8ea7c3618

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distribution-engage is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lab2A/metalworks (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 1,187 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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