Community Research

Community sources — Hacker News, issues, forums, and discussions. Use for practitioner sentiment, failure reports, and what actually broke for real users.

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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

  1. Ask the question the community can answer (real usage, failures, opinions).
  2. search_community; note the platform each result came from.
  3. Separate signal (reproducible failures, dates, versions) from noise (unverified anecdotes).
  4. 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

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