Blog Discourse

Complements the authority-first blog-researcher with a recency lens: what are practitioners actually saying about your topic in the last 30 days? Uses WebSearch with platform-targeted site operators (Reddit, HN, X, YouTube, dev.to, Medium) plus recency filters, no API keys required. Adapted from Matt Van Horn's last30days-skill methodology. Produces a structured DISCOURSE.md brief and JSON output you can feed directly into blog brief, write, or strategy commands. Ships with four keyword-trap pre-flight checks to avoid wasting searches on demographic shopping queries or overly-literal phrases. The untrusted-data contract scans snippets for injection patterns before JSON serialization, three-layer defense against "ignore previous instructions" attacks hiding in Reddit comments.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add agricidaniel/claude-blog --skill blog-discourse --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Blog Discourse: Real Discourse Research, API-Free

Bundled paths below use host Markdown substitution of ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}; it is not an exported shell variable. Resolve them before execution, quote paths, and refuse nonabsolute overrides. Pass blog_reference_root resolved from ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../blog/references, blog_template_root from ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../blog/templates, and needed sibling roots to agents. Read the main reference orchestration-details.md before loading project context; pass only its helper-fenced output to downstream agents.

Produces DISCOURSE.md: a structured brief of what practitioners said about on the public web in the last 30 days. It is the recency + engagement lens that blog-researcher (authority-first) lacks, asking what practitioners and customers are actually saying about this topic right now.

Adapted from the methodology of last30days-skill (Matt Van Horn, MIT, https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill). The upstream uses platform APIs; this sub-skill uses WebSearch with platform-targeted site operators. No API keys required.