social-feedback

Orchestrator — when the user wants to know "what do people say about X" (a provider, product, service, library, tool), pick which source-specific sub-skills to invoke and synthesize a balanced summary across them. Triggers on phrases like "what's the consensus on", "is X any good", "what are people saying about", "should I use X", "spec out a provider".

Search Hacker News (via the Algolia HN API or site search) for technical and founder-audience discourse about a topic. Best for SaaS, devtools, infra, AI providers, and YC-adjacent companies — comments are often more substantive than the post itself. Use when evaluating technical products, dev infrastructure, or anything with a startup/engineering audience.

Search Lobsters (lobste.rs) for high signal-to-noise discourse on dev tooling, languages, and systems software. Smaller and more curated than Hacker News — use as a complement to HN when evaluating programming-adjacent tools.

Search Reddit for user discourse about a topic, product, provider, or tool. Best single source for "is X any good" — surfaces real user experiences, complaints, and recurring pain points from topic-specific subreddits. Use when the user wants community opinion on consumer products, hosting providers, dev tools, hardware, or services.

Search the Stack Exchange network (Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, etc.) for problem-shaped discourse — "X doesn't work because…", "how do I…", recurring quirks. Use when evaluating tools/libraries/APIs from the angle of "what breaks" rather than general sentiment.