Agent skill · marketing growth · sickn33
community-building
When the user wants to build, grow, or improve a developer community on Discord, Slack, or forums.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific community engagement strategies and channel structures that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 44,571 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Community Building When to Use Use this skill when you need when the user wants to build, grow, or improve a developer community on Discord, Slack, or forums. Trigger phrases include "developer community," "Discord server," "Slack community," "community strategy," "community engagement," "community moderation," "community growth," or "community... This skill helps you build and manage developer communities on Discord, Slack, forums, and other platforms. Covers channel structure, onboarding, engagement programs, handling toxicity, and community-led growth. --- Before You Start Load your audience context first. Read .agents/developer-audience-context.md to understand: Who your developers are (role, seniority, interests) Where they already hang out (to avoid competing platforms) What problems they discuss (community topic focus) How they communicate (formal vs. casual tone) If the context file doesn't exist, run the developer-audience-context skill first. --- Platform Selection Comparison Matrix Platform Best For Pros Cons ---------- ---------- ------ ------ Discord Developer tools, gaming, OSS Real-time, rich features, free Can be chaotic, less enterprise Slack Enterprise, B2B SaaS Professional, familiar Expensive at scale, message limits GitHub Discussions OSS projects Integrated, async, searchable Less community feel Discourse Long-form, searchable SEO, threading, ownership Maintenance, hosting costs Circle Courses, paid communities Courses integration, clean Paid, less developer-native Decision Framework If your audience is... …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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