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name: discourse description: Scans HN, Lobsters, Reddit, and tech blogs for community experience reports version: 1.9.8 triggers:

• hackernews
• reddit
• lobsters
• blogs
• discourse
• gathering practitioner opinions on a technology or approach metadata: {"openclaw": {"homepage": "https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/tome", "emoji": "\ud83e\udd9e"}} source: claude-night-market source_plugin: tome

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Night Market Skill — ported from claude-night-market/tome. For the full experience with agents, hooks, and commands, install the Claude Code plugin.

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 /tome:papers)
• Code examples (use /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

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