community-building

community-building is a skill for Codex from san-npm/skills-ws. It costs 82 tokens per session (6,143 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide to starting, growing, moderating, and measuring online communities on services such as Discord, Slack, Reddit, and GitHub Discussions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing a community platform, planning a launch over 30 or 90 days, creating member rituals, moderating discussions, and tracking community health.
Why use it?
It helps address low participation and retention with suitable onboarding, safety rules, engagement routines, and measurable goals.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Choosing a community platform, planning a launch over 30 or 90 days, creating member rituals, moderating discussions, and tracking community health.

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

Made for: 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 community-building

README.md
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Your own site
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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-building

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,143 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 $0.00082 $0.06143
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.03071
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00614

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3c6840f83101, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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 · 388 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Community Building

Platform Comparison

Platform Best For Pros Cons (2026 reality)
Discord Dev/gaming/crypto/creator communities Free, real-time, rich (Onboarding, AutoMod, Forum/Media channels, threads, audio Stages) Noisy, weak native search, public-by-default unless you gate; mod tooling needs setup
Slack B2B, professional/internal communities Familiar, threaded, deep integrations, Canvases & Lists Free plan limits you to recent message history & file access (~90 days), not the old "10,000-message" cap (as of Jun 2026; verify at slack.com/pricing); paid scales costly per active member
Circle Course/membership/paid communities Clean UX, Spaces, native events, courses, paywall, mobile app Paid SaaS, less real-time than Discord, you don't own the data layer
GitHub Discussions OSS projects Free, lives next to the code, async, Q&A "answered" marking, categories Dev-only audience; no real-time, no DMs, limited moderation/analytics
Reddit (subreddit) Public discovery & SEO Indexed in Google + cited by LLMs, massive reach, anonymous low-friction posting You don't own the audience or DMs; heavy mod load (spam/ban-evasion/brigading); API access is now rate-limited/paid for 3rd-party tools; Reddit's content policy + admin actions override your rules. See the reddit-community-engagement sibling skill for subreddit-specific playbooks.

Other 2026 options: Skool and Mighty Networks (creator/cohort communities, built-in payments + gamification); Discourse (self-hostable forum, best long-tail SEO + LLM citation); Telegram/WhatsApp (huge in crypto/emerging markets, but near-zero structure, moderation, or analytics — treat as a broadcast/chat layer, not a home base). Pick ONE home base; don't run parallel communities you can't staff. Match the platform to where members already are and to your moderation capacity, not to feature lists.

Discord/Slack Channel Structure

Read the full file on GitHub · 388 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. 11d ago First seen · 388 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 3c6840f83101

Subscribe to this mod's changes

community-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository san-npm/skills-ws (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 6,143 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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