reddit-research

name	reddit-research
description	Research Reddit communities and winning discussion patterns using public Reddit data, One Horizon context docs, and Ink's MCP tools. Use when Codex needs to find audience-relevant subreddits, inspect the best recent posts, understand subreddit rules and anti-promo norms, or hand a Reddit writing brief to another skill.

Reddit Research

Overview

Find the right subreddit before drafting. Shortlist communities, inspect their rules and top posts, then distill the hooks, tones, and discussion patterns that actually work there.

Intent Split

• Use this skill for subreddit discovery, rule analysis, top-post analysis, and writing handoff briefs.
• Do not use this skill to draft the Reddit post itself. Use ../reddit-social-writer/SKILL.md.
• Do not use this skill for storage-only requests. Use ../reddit-store-post/SKILL.md.

Quick Start

1. Read references/workflow.md.
2. Resolve the active Ink profile, then resolve the author and load only the relevant author-scoped One Horizon context docs from that profile workspace. Use ../one-horizon-context-setup/references/context-doc-templates.md for the naming and missing-doc contract.
3. Read references/tool-contracts.md for the exact Reddit tool argument shapes.
4. Read ../linkedin-social-writer/references/mcp-tools.md before using Ink's local research tools.
5. Use the Reddit tools to shortlist subreddits, inspect rules, and analyze top posts from the past week.
6. Return a compact handoff brief for ../reddit-social-writer/SKILL.md when the next step is drafting.

Working Agreement

• Start from audience and topic fit, not from the biggest subreddit by subscriber count.
• Treat subreddit rules and posting guidance as hard constraints.
• Use public no-auth Reddit access for v1. If a Reddit endpoint fails, fall back to the other local research tools instead of inventing results.
• Resolve the active Ink profile before One Horizon context lookup. If multiple profiles exist and none is named, ask which profile to use.
• Use One Horizon context docs from the selected profile workspace to understand the author and audience. Do not use tracked repo files for live context.
• If a required author-scoped context doc is missing or unusable, use ../one-horizon-context-setup/SKILL.md to create the missing doc through its confirmation flow before researching.
• If a One Horizon tool call is missing or fails, follow ../one-horizon-context-setup/references/mcp-readiness.md. Do not search tracked repo files as a substitute for live context.
• Surface promotion risk explicitly. If a subreddit is likely to reject branded, link-heavy, or self-promotional posts, say so.
• Separate general subreddit fit from topic-specific post fit. A large subreddit can still be the wrong place for a given angle.
• Produce a drafting handoff, not just raw research notes.
• Use the exact tool schemas from references/tool-contracts.md. Do not improvise argument keys.
• If no subreddit looks like a credible fit, say that explicitly and stop instead of forcing a recommendation.

Output Shape

Unless the user asks differently, return:

• Recommended Subreddits: 3 or fewer ranked by fit
• Rules And Risks: notable rules, anti-promo risks, and tone constraints
• Winning Patterns: the recent post patterns that matter
• Angle Options: 2 or 3 viable angles the author could post about
• Writer Handoff: one recommended brief for reddit-social-writer using the required handoff fields
• Sources Used: the One Horizon context docs and research tools used

Files

• Read references/workflow.md.
• Read references/tool-contracts.md before calling the Reddit tools.
• If a One Horizon tool call fails, read ../one-horizon-context-setup/references/mcp-readiness.md for recovery.
• Resolve the active Ink profile with ../one-horizon-context-setup/references/ink-profile-contract.md, then resolve the author with One Horizon MCP tools and load relevant author-scoped context from the selected workspace using the naming and missing-doc contract in ../one-horizon-context-setup/references/context-doc-templates.md: Profile, Current Work, and Market Context.
• Read ../linkedin-social-writer/references/mcp-tools.md before using Ink's local research tools.
• Hand off drafting work to ../reddit-social-writer/SKILL.md.