Agent skill · nousresearch
reddit-reading
Read Reddit: subreddits, search, threads, users. No browser.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Reddit Reading Skill Reads Reddit content — subreddit listings, site or subreddit search, full threads with comments, and user activity — from a server or headless machine where the normal routes are dead. It does not post, vote, or log in as a user. Idea credit: the per-platform backend routing in Agent Reach. When to Use "What is r/LocalLLaMA saying about X", "find Reddit threads on Y", "summarise this Reddit thread", "what has u/someone posted lately". Any reddit.com URL the user shares. webextract, browsernavigate and the .json endpoints all fail from server IPs (403 or a "Prove your humanity" wall); this skill is the working path. Not for posting, voting, messaging, or anything needing a user login. Prerequisites None. No Reddit account, login, cookie, or API key is needed. The default backend is Reddit's public Atom feeds (.rss endpoints), the only unauthenticated route Reddit still serves to non-residential IPs. It is throttled to about one request per minute per IP and returns thinner data (no scores, top-level comments only), which is fine for a few calls. Optional upgrade (app credentials, still no user login): for sustained use or full data, register a free "script" type app at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps and put its two values in ~/.hermes/.env: This is an application registration, not a login: the script uses the app-only clientcredentials grant, never a username, password, or browser cookie, and never acts as the user. With both values set it switches to the OAuth API automatically (~100 requests per minute, scores, nested comments, numcomments); if they are missing or rejected it falls back to the anonymous feeds and says so on stderr. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills nousresearch/reddit-reading--9851a6