reddit-researchlisted

# Reddit Research ## Overview Collects evidence from Reddit: posts and comments as community-signal or, when the author is credentialed, up to tier-3 fact/opinion evidence. Each output is one evidence record — a claim backed by a verbatim quote anchored to a permalink and timestamp. This skill never concludes or synthesizes; it produces raw material for `state/runs/<slug>/evidence.jsonl`. **Layer rule:** produces evidence, not results. Synthesis and confidence status are the orchestrator's job. ## When to use Direct use: "what do people on r/X say about Y", "find complaints about Z". As a component: orchestrator dispatches this for community-signal and sentiment-shaped sub-questions. Don't use for: GitHub-native content (→ github-research), general web pages (→ web-research). Do use this even for Reddit threads *about* a GitHub project or a web article — the evidence source is Reddit, so it belongs here. ## Reddit's current access reality (check this note's date before trusting it stale) As of 2026-08-15, anonymous `*.reddit.com/*.json` access is broadly blocked (TLS fingerprinting, not just rate limits) — **never treat it as the primary path.** See references/tooling.md for the full chain: OAuth (if credentials configured) → Arctic Shift (no-auth fallback) → one opportunistic `.json` probe → PullPush → Wayback for deleted content. One capability probe at skill start decides the tier; don't re-probe per query. ## Credential hygiene (if OAuth is used) Never read, ech