reply-engine

A batch workflow that creates one short suggested Reddit reply for each classified opportunity, or records why a reply should be skipped. Reddit is a discussion website.

In plain words
What is it for?
Processing classified opportunity files, writing short value-first reply templates, checking them, recording no-reply decisions, and optionally putting the results into a client spreadsheet.
Why use it?
It gives every opportunity a deliberate response decision and checks drafts against an 18-word limit and quality rules. This is a batch process, unlike the separate workflow for reviewing full comments one at a time.

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/shawnla90/gtm-coding-agent/reply-engine
Any agent
npx skills add shawnla90/gtm-coding-agent --skill reply-engine
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnla90/gtm-coding-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,827 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 $0.00147 $0.01827
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00914
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00183

Measured 3d ago against content hash 38080cc98bf3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reply-engine 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 3d 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/reply-engine/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

reply-engine

One gated, ≤18-word reply template per opportunity, and a recorded reason for every thread you skip.

This is the batch pass. ../reddit-engage/ is the interactive mode: full 2–5 sentence comments, approved one by one. This skill runs earlier and wider: every classified op gets either a short template the human edits into a real comment, or a NO-REPLY gate with a note. The skip discipline is half the value. Wraps replies.py in the reddit-buyer-signals starter: the script scaffolds and checks; the agent writes the words.

Inputs

  • data/ops_classified.json — classified opportunities (op_id, lane, subreddit, summary, permalink)
  • Optional: a client sheet id (or data/sheet_url.txt) for the Suggested Replies tab
  • The client's offer context and voice profile, same as every other drafting surface

How to run

cd starters/reddit-buyer-signals
python3 replies.py scaffold --ops data/ops_classified.json --out data/suggested_replies.json
# the agent writes every empty reply slot, then:
python3 replies.py check data/suggested_replies.json --ops data/ops_classified.json
python3 replies.py sheet --ops data/ops_classified.json --replies data/suggested_replies.json --sheet-id <id>
python3 replies.py angles --ops data/ops_classified.json --replies data/suggested_replies.json --out data/engage_angles.json

The 18-word cap (binding)

Target 15–18 words; 18 is the hard limit (wc -w semantics: whitespace-separated words). Longer templates read contrived, and the human is going to edit anyway. Render the count as <N>/18 next to every draft you present. Check it, don't eyeball it:

printf '%s' "<reply>" | wc -w

check enforces the same count and exits nonzero on 19+.

Reply gates

Deterministic from the action lane; overrides beat the lane. NO-REPLY is a result, not a failure — log it and move on.

Gate Lane rule Note on the row
GO engage_now / reply_now Timely thread. Reply when ready.
REVIEW every other lane Check thread age + sub self-promo rules first.
NO-REPLY competitor_intel / competitor_watch Log as competitor intel. Do not post.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 3d ago First seen · 104 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 38080cc98bf3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reply-engine is a skill published in the GitHub repository shawnla90/gtm-coding-agent (139 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 1,827 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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