Spent an evening building a Claude Code skill that turns real engineering work into Reddit posts for this sub and a few others. Voice rules, format templates, per-sub cheatsheets, the works. First thing I did was ask it to write a launch post about itself. It refused. Quoting the skill back at me: I argued with it. Said I’d just built the thing, that counted as experience. It pushed back: building a thing isn’t the same as using it. No data, no “tried it on 3 real posts and here’s what landed” — just a launch. Launch posts get downvoted here and we both know it. So this is the workaround it eventually agreed to: a post about the skill refusing to write a post about itself. The meta is the finding. A few things I learned writing it: The hardest part wasn’t the format templates, it was the AI-tell hit list. “Let’s dive in,” “leverage,” “game-changer,” em-dashes in every sentence — the audience clocks AI prose in about two seconds and the skill has to actively fight it. Per-sub voice matters more than I expected. r/ClaudeCode runs hot and critical, r/codex is smaller and more positive, same insight needs different wording. The hard refusal logic was the most important part. A skill that produces karma-farming slop on demand would actively hurt whoever installed it. Caveats: I’ve used it on exactly one post (this one) so the “does it actually work” data is N=1. The skill itself flags this — it won’t let me write a “I used it for a month and…” post until I’ve actually used it for a month. reddit post skill Honest ask: if you install it and try it on real work, I’d love to know where it falls down. The voice.md and titles.md files are guesses based on reading what’s worked here, not validated across many posts. The skill probably has blind spots I haven’t found. submitted by /u/Working-Middle2582
Originally posted by u/Working-Middle2582 on r/ClaudeCode
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