| name | find-communities |
| description | Enumerate communities (LinkedIn groups, Slack channels, Discords, professional orgs, mailing lists) for a domain. Each entry includes activity-level signal and alignment to ground-truth. Writes to <WORKING_FOLDER>/domain-notes/<domain-slug>/communities.md. |
| disable-model-invocation | false |
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, WebSearch, WebFetch, Bash(mkdir *), Bash(test *) |
Find Communities
Where the conversation actually happens for this niche. Filtered by activity (dead Slacks are noise) and alignment (some communities won't take the user's profile).
Inputs
$ARGUMENTS:
- Required:
<domain>.
- Optional:
--types=<slack,discord,linkedin,reddit,mailing-list,org> (default: all).
- Optional:
--n=<count> (default 15).
- Optional:
--gated-ok — include invite-only / paid communities.
Examples
/career:ecosystem communities "ai evals"
/career:ecosystem communities "devtools" --types=slack,discord
/career:ecosystem communities "policy tech" --gated-ok
Procedure
1. Paths
Output: ${WORKING_FOLDER}/domain-notes/${domain-slug}/communities.md.
2. Enumerate
WebSearch + WebFetch. For each candidate community, capture:
- Name + platform.
- Join URL (or "request access via X").
- Activity signal: rough message volume / week, last visible post if scrapeable.
- Membership shape: practitioner / academic / vendor / mixed.
- Cost: free / paid / invite-only.
- Alignment score against ground-truth (0–3): does the user fit; is this a buyer crowd, peer crowd, or learning crowd.
3. Write the note
# Communities — {{domain}}
> Domain: {{domain}}
> Types: {{types}}
> Surveyed: {{date}}
## Active + aligned (join these)
| name | platform | join | activity | shape | cost | alignment | source |
## Active but mixed-fit (lurk first)
(same columns)
## Dormant / low-signal (note for the record)
| name | last activity |
## Sources
1. ...
4. Print summary
note: domain-notes/<domain-slug>/communities.md
active+aligned: <n>
mixed-fit: <n>
dormant: <n>
next: pick 1–2 active+aligned to actually join this week
Guardrails
- Activity signal is mandatory. A community with no visible recent activity is dormant — don't recommend joining.
- Don't recommend more than 3 communities to actively engage with. Lurking elsewhere is fine.
- Alignment is honest: "great community, wrong audience for you" is a valid downgrade.
Failure modes
- Domain too narrow (no public communities exist) → return the empty note with adjacent communities listed under
## Adjacent options.
- All candidates require auth to assess activity → mark each with
activity: unknown — gated and surface the list anyway.
