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An AI agent skill to analyze live public opinion and trends on Reddit and X using real discussions and quotes.

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sc-research – Social media analysis skill for AI agents (Reddit and X)

Name: sc-research – Social media analysis skill for AI agents (Reddit and X)
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Author: skainguyen1412

by skainguyen1412·Feb 23, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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Real-time social data for agents beats training cutoffs, but scraping-based tools face API rate limits and eventual reliability walls.

Strengths

•Pulls live Reddit and X discussions with real quotes, avoiding AI hallucinations on current events
•Multiple analysis types (ranking, sentiment, trend, controversy) with interactive dashboards
•Easy install and integration with Claude Code/Cursor/Windsurf; structured JSON output

Weaknesses

•Dependency on external APIs (OpenAI, xAI) and scraping means rate limits and potential legal/ToS friction
•No comparison to competitors (Perplexity's real-time web search, Brave Search API); unclear if this is faster or more reliable

Post Description

Hey HN! I built sc-research — an open source skill that gives AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) the ability to do social media analysis.

You just ask your agent something like "What do people think about product X?" or "What's trending this week?" and it goes out, pulls live discussions from Reddit and X, and comes back with structured results + interactive dashboards.

It can do rankings, sentiment breakdowns, trend timelines, controversy mapping, and topic discovery — all backed by real quotes from real people.

How it works: it pulls live discussions from Reddit (via OpenAI) and X (via xAI/Grok), classifies what kind of analysis your question needs (ranking, sentiment, trend, etc.), runs the analysis, and outputs structured JSON + an interactive dashboard. Install is just "npm install -g sc-research" and "sc-research init --ai claude".

Stack: Bun/Node, OpenAI + xAI APIs, Zod, Vite + TS for the dashboard.

Happy to answer any questions!

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