Market Recon — Community Research via MCP

This skill is for the main thread / orchestrator only. Subagents cannot call MCP tools directly. You fetch the data, write it to disk, and pass the file path to the subagent.

When to Use

DAG contains tasks with type=research AND signals like: community, sentiment, pain points, adoption, market, trends, opinions, practitioners, experience.

Query Strategy

1. Pick 2-3 subreddits matching the topic:

   • Dev tooling / AI coding: ClaudeAI, ChatGPTCoding, cursor
   • General dev: programming, webdev, ExperiencedDevs
   • Infra / backend: devops, sysadmin, kubernetes
   • Frontend: reactjs, nextjs, webdev
   • Specific tech: use the technology's own subreddit

2. Search with short, specific queries (2-4 words). Run 2-3 queries per subreddit to cover angles: the tool name, the pain point, the alternative.