community

community is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,979 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building and managing a user community on platforms such as Discord or forums. It covers when to start, how to choose a platform, how members can help one another, and how to grow the community.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan a community launch, select a platform, encourage member participation, support peer-to-peer help, and use community feedback to improve a product.
Why use it?
It helps avoid starting a community before there are enough active users or a clear reason for them to interact. It also addresses the work needed before peer support can reduce support requests.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit It helps plan a community launch, select a platform, encourage member participation, support peer-to-peer help, and use community feedback to improve a product.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/community
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill community
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/community"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/community.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,979 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00064 $0.01979
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00989
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00198

Measured 13d ago against content hash 9d4dbeacc610, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

community 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 13d 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/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Community Building

Community is a leverage multiplier — when done right, your users help each other, advocate for your product, and provide a constant stream of feedback. This skill helps you decide when to start a community, which platform to use, and how to keep it alive without it consuming all your time.

Core Principles

  • Community is a product, not a channel. Treat it with the same care as your app.
  • Don't start a community until you have at least 100 active users. Below that, it's a ghost town.
  • The goal is user-to-user value, not founder-to-user broadcasting. You're facilitating, not performing.
  • A small, engaged community beats a large, silent one. 50 active members > 500 lurkers.
  • Community reduces support load only after you invest in it. It increases load at first.

When to Start a Community

Start When:

  • You have 100+ active users
  • Users are already talking to each other (in support tickets, on social media, in reviews)
  • You're answering the same questions repeatedly (community enables peer answers)
  • Your product has a learning curve that benefits from shared knowledge
  • Users create things with your product that they'd want to share

Don't Start When:

  • You have fewer than 50 active users (not enough for critical mass)
  • You're still validating the product (focus on 1-on-1 conversations instead)
  • You think community will replace support (it supplements it, doesn't replace it)
  • You don't have 2-3 hours/week to invest in it

Platform Selection

Platform Best For Cost Effort
Discord Technical products, developer tools, real-time chat Free Medium
Slack B2B SaaS, professional communities Free (limited) Medium
GitHub Discussions Open-source, developer tools Free Low
Circle Course creators, premium communities $89+/mo Medium
Forum (Discourse) Long-form Q&A, searchable knowledge Free (self-hosted) High
Reddit (own subreddit) Large consumer products Free Low

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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. 13d ago First seen · 260 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 9d4dbeacc610

Subscribe to this mod's changes

community is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,979 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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