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Scans HN, Lobsters, Reddit, and tech blogs for community experience reports

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Install

openclaw skills install @athola/nm-tome-discourse

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