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Discourse Search · athola | DecimalAI

researchby athola

Discourse Search

athola/discourse

Source athola/claude-night-market ↗License MIT

Scans HN, Lobsters, Reddit, and tech blogs for community experience reports.

NewMaintained

Automatic

Research pack

Last verified 8/27/2026

What it changes

Passed 2 of 9 test cases with the skill, and 2 of 9 without it.

Without skill27%

With skill27%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Routes search to academic paper databases.
References tome.channels.discourse functions for building channel queries.

2 fixed4 passed either way14 still failing2 broke

Pass-rate lift: 0 pp
Tokens: -5%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -15%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/27/2026v26 of 22 cases passed with skill · 9 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/athola-discourse/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/athola-discourse/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add athola-discourse, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/athola-discourse/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add athola-discourse

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/athola-discourse/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/athola-discourse/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/athola-discourse/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/athola-discourse.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 2 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 2

Prompt

When constructing search queries and URLs for Hacker News, Lobsters, and Reddit programmatically in the discourse search workflow, which function namespace or library path should be used to build channel queries?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
References tome.channels.discourse functions for building channel queries.	Missed	Passed

case-13 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/27/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md41 linessingle file

Discourse Search

When To Use

Gathering community opinions on a technology or approach
Finding experience reports from HN, Reddit, or Lobsters

When NOT To Use

Academic research (use Skill(tome:papers))
Code examples (use Skill(tome:code-search))

Scan community channels for discussions on a topic.

Channels

Hacker News: Algolia API at hn.algolia.com
Lobsters: WebSearch with site:lobste.rs
Reddit: JSON API (append .json to URLs)
Tech blogs: WebSearch targeting curated domains

Workflow

Build search URLs/queries per channel using tome.channels.discourse.* functions
Execute via WebFetch (APIs) or WebSearch (fallback)
Parse responses into Finding objects
Merge across sources with source attribution

Exit Criteria

At least two community channels (HN, Lobsters, Reddit, or tech blogs) queried per invocation
HN results fetched via Algolia API at hn.algolia.com (WebFetch); WebSearch used as fallback if the API is unreachable
Each Finding object includes a source field identifying which channel (HN, Lobsters, Reddit, or blog) it came from
If all WebFetch and WebSearch calls fail for every channel, the failure is reported explicitly rather than returning

Track record

Benchmark

2 / 9

test cases passed, vs 2 / 9 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v5 — 8/26/2026

View 15 scanner checks

live_secretremote_code_executionreverse_shelldata_exfiltrationssrf_metadataagent_snoopinganti_refusaldestructive_commandsobfuscated_unicodeunicode_homoglyphopaque_blobsuspicious_urltool_overreachtrigger_abuseprompt_injection_phrasing

IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

athola / claude-night-market

plugins/tome/skills/discourse/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License MITImported 8/26/2026Version v2

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What's inside

Discourse Search

When To Use

When NOT To Use

Channels

Workflow

Exit Criteria

Track record

Benchmark

Adoption

SkillSafety

Source

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