social-researchlisted

# Social Research ## Overview Collects evidence from non-Reddit social/community platforms: X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Discord (public channels/archives), general forums. Same evidentiary shape as reddit-research — mostly community-signal, occasionally tier-3 fact/opinion from a credentialed account — but a different platform per query, so this skill's job is picking the right platform and access method rather than following one fixed chain. **Layer rule:** produces evidence, not results. Synthesis and confidence status are the orchestrator's job. ## When to use Direct use: "what's being said on X about Y", "check HN comments on this launch", "LinkedIn reaction to Z". As a component: orchestrator dispatches this for community-signal sub-questions on a specific named platform other than Reddit. Don't use for: Reddit (→ reddit-research — access constraints there are platform-specific enough to warrant its own skill), GitHub Discussions/issues (→ github-research), general web content (→ web-research). ## Workflow 1. **Identify the platform and its access reality before searching** — each platform here has a different access story (X/Twitter's API is paid and restrictive; Hacker News has a free public API and Algolia-backed search; LinkedIn has essentially no scriptable public search and often requires the user's own logged-in access; Discord content is only reachable if public and indexed, or via an export the user provides). Don't assume one method works across a