Track topic trends across social sources
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alirezarezvani/claude-skills ↗What it does
Research topics across Reddit, Hacker News, web, and social platforms
Best for
Taking rapid pulse on trending topics, sentiment, and community problems across multiple platforms when speed and cross-platform patterns matter.
Inputs
- · Topic to research
- · Angle/perspective (trend, sentiment, problems, opportunities, comparison)
- · Time window (default 30 days, configurable)
- · Platform scope (Reddit, Hacker News, web, optional X/Twitter)
Outputs
- · Synthesized briefing with citations
- · Engagement metrics (upvotes, comments, retweets)
- · Cross-platform pattern analysis
- · Trend signals and sentiment summary
Requires
- · Reddit API, Hacker News API (free)
- · WebSearch/WebFetch (free)
- · Optional X/Twitter API (BYOK)
Preconditions
- · Grill-me intake (Q2-Q4) must complete before search runs (clarifies specificity, angle, time window, platforms)
- · Phases 1-3 run in parallel per research-pack convention
- · Agent Integrity Rules enforce rate-limits (1 q/sec per platform, three-count tracking, retry-once-after-3s)
Failure modes
- · Rate-limiting (1 q/sec per platform) means 4-platform search takes 4+ seconds
- · Engagement metrics are snapshot-only (decay over time post-collection)
- · X/Twitter optional BYOK requires bearer token (may fail if token is stale)
Trust signals
- · Source spec in PR #657 (megaprompts/01-pulse-megaprompt.md)
- · Agent Integrity Rules implemented (1 q/sec, three-count tracking, retry-once-after-3s, stop-after-3-consecutive-failures)
- · Research-pack convention (parallel Phases 1-3) ensures efficiency
- · Free APIs (Reddit, HN) are production integrations
- · Engagement metrics + cross-platform synthesis are signal fusion