Community research
Mine practitioner communities for real-world experience: HN threads, issues, forums.
When to use
- "Does this actually work in practice?" — real-user reports.
- Characterizing pain points, workarounds, and adoption sentiment.
- Enriching error investigation with what others hit before.
Tools used
search_community— query across hackernews/github community surfaces.
Workflow
- Ask the question the community can answer (real usage, failures, opinions).
search_community; note the platform each result came from.- Separate signal (reproducible failures, dates, versions) from noise (unverified anecdotes).
- Fold findings into the research with explicit "community-reported" labeling.
Input schema
{ "query": "str", "limit": "int" }
Output schema
{ "results": "list[{title,url,platform,relevance}]" }
Security
Anecdotes are evidence of experience, not of truth or frequency. Aggregate before summarizing; never present one report as consensus.
Related skills
error-investigation, github-research, web-search, source-analysis,
contradiction-search