reddit-research

name	reddit-research
description	Reddit research workflow for finding, scoring, shortlisting, and learning from subreddit posts and comments for brand or lead discovery. Use when building or operating a Reddit research pipeline, tuning discovery/scoring rules, organizing brand-specific heuristics, or packaging repeatable Reddit research into a reusable skill.

Reddit Research

Use this skill to turn Reddit into a repeatable signal pipeline.

Workflow

1. Discover

   • Pull from target subreddits first.
   • Keep discovery broad enough to capture candidates, but narrow enough to avoid Reddit-wide noise.
   • Apply freshness and subreddit filters early.

2. Filter

   • Remove obvious junk before scoring.
   • Apply hard filters for job posts, irrelevant domains, avoid-list topics, and duplicates.

3. Score

   • Score candidates by brand fit, intent, capability match, and risk.
   • Keep brand-specific weights separate from shared rules.
   • Emit a reason trail for every score.

4. Shortlist

   • Select the best candidates after filtering.
   • Do not let raw top-score ranking bypass hard filters.

5. Learn

   • Record what converted, what was ignored, and what was false-positive noise.
   • Update brand profiles and weights from outcomes.
   • Prefer profile updates over ad hoc rule churn.

Operating rules

• Keep discovery, scoring, and learning separate.
• Prefer brand-specific profiles over global heuristics.
• Explain every shortlist decision.
• Treat filters as safety rails, not the learning system.

Resources

• references/brand-profiles.md — brand-specific behavior, weights, and profile shape
• references/scoring-rules.md — scoring dimensions and hard filter order
• references/intent-patterns.md — common Reddit intent buckets and signals
• references/examples.md — examples of good, bad, and borderline posts
• scripts/discover.py — discovery helper
• scripts/score.py — scoring and ranking helper
• scripts/cleanup.py — dedupe and inbox cleanup helper
• scripts/report.py — summary and reason-trail output helper