The Best Claude Code Skills for Reddit and Lead Generation

We build two of the skills on this list, so the same disclosure as every other roundup here: read it with that in mind, but we've kept the count honest. “Best Claude Code skills for Reddit/lead generation” turns out to be a short list, not a long one — Skills (the packaged-instructions format, distinct from MCP) only shipped in late 2025, and Reddit-specific ones are still rare. We went looking on GitHub, in the community skill directories, and in Anthropic's own official examples repo before writing this, rather than assuming. Here's everything real we found, in one place, described honestly.

1. reddit-lead-finder (ThreadSnoop) — best for finding your first customers

The job: turning a product into a ranked list of Reddit threads worth engaging with. Give it a URL or a short description and it searches by both category vocabulary (how a seller would describe the problem) and pain vocabulary (how someone living with the problem actually complains about it), scores every candidate on Customer Fit, Problem Severity, and Purchase Intent — the same three-part rubric ThreadSnoop itself scores on — checks the subreddit's self-promotion rules before recommending anywhere to post, and hands back a short report with the quoted line that justified each score. It only finds and scores; it doesn't draft replies as part of the workflow, and it never posts, comments, or DMs on Reddit itself. Free, Claude Code and Claude Desktop / claude.ai web — confirmed working end to end on both. (Full writeup, with a real run.)

2. reddit-search (ThreadSnoop) — best for open-ended Reddit research

The job: everything the fixed lead-gen rubric above doesn't cover — sentiment on a competitor, general research on a topic, watching a subreddit for a specific kind of post, none of it tied to a product. No fixed scoring categories: it states its own relevance criteria per report, since what counts as a good result changes with what you actually asked. It also handles two things that trip up naive Reddit scraping — Reddit hides real vote counts on posts and comments under roughly 36 hours old, so it flags fresh content as new instead of ranking on a placeholder number, and it skips or flags removed/deleted content instead of quoting it as if it were still there. Free, same two confirmed platforms as above. (Full writeup, with a real run.)

3. reddit-skill (brisyramshere) — best free, read-only Reddit search

The job: search and read Reddit directly through Reddit's own OAuth2 API. You register your own app at reddit.com/prefs/apps and plug in a client ID and secret; the skill then supports post search (site-wide or scoped to a subreddit), browsing by hot/new/top/rising/controversial, reading a full post with its comment thread, and pulling subreddit metadata, capped at Reddit's own 100 requests/minute for an authenticated app. It's explicitly, deliberately read-only — no posting, no commenting — and it has no scoring, no fit/severity/intent judgment, and no product context: it returns what you searched for, ranked however Reddit itself ranks it. If what you want is a plain Reddit search tool inside Claude Code and you're fine running your own OAuth app, it does that job cleanly. It's a small, independent project (a few dozen GitHub stars as of writing) — worth knowing it exists, not a household name.

4. claude-skill-reddit (PHY041) — the one that automates posting

The job: a fundamentally different one from everything else on this list — this skill checks your account karma, scans rising posts in target subreddits, drafts comments, and posts them, plus submits new posts and applies flair. The mechanism is AppleScript driving your real, logged-in Chrome browser rather than a headless tool like Selenium or Puppeteer, and its own documentation describes that choice as “undetectable by Reddit's anti-bot systems” since it's “indistinguishable from you clicking around.” We're naming it because it's real, active, and shows up in this search — not to recommend it. It's the direct opposite of the posture every ThreadSnoop surface holds to: Reddit removes bot accounts at industrial scale, and an account-safety story built around evading detection is a different bet than one built around never automating the post in the first place. Your call, but go in with eyes open about which one you're making.

5. reddit-fetch (inside ykdojo/claude-code-tips) — the one you might already have

The job: a narrow utility, not a monitoring tool — it exists to work around Reddit returning 403s to Claude's built-in WebFetch tool. It routes the first request through a DuckDuckGo redirect to pick up a session cookie, then appends .json to Reddit URLs for the rest of the session. Purely read-only, no scoring, no ranking, one job done well. It ships as one skill inside a much bigger, well-known “40+ Claude Code tips” repo (thousands of stars) rather than as its own project, so plenty of Claude Code users already have it installed without necessarily knowing it's there.

What's missing — and why the list stops there

We also checked Anthropic's own official skills examples repo directly. As of today it has zero Reddit-related or lead-generation skills — the closest entries are things like frontend-design and mcp-builder. That's not a gap in our search; it's the actual state of the format. Skills are new enough that a specific, narrow use case like “Reddit lead generation” only has a handful of entrants, and of the ones above, none of the third-party ones score a thread against your specific product the way reddit-lead-finder does — the closest thing we found in a general marketing-skills marketplace was a Reddit post-writing skill (drafting original posts to earn upvotes, reviewed for AI-sounding tells before you post), which is a content job, not a discovery one. If that changes, this post gets updated — it's a landscape, not a permanent ranking.

Get either ThreadSnoop skill

Both are free downloads from the ThreadSnoop skills page, no signup required to grab them — you'll need a free API key to actually run one (1,000 free Reddit searches on signup, no card):

npx skills add threadsnoop/reddit-skills --skill reddit-lead-finder -a claude-code -g
npx skills add threadsnoop/reddit-skills --skill reddit-search -a claude-code -g

Drop -g to scope either to just one project instead. Claude Desktop and claude.ai web need the ThreadSnoop MCP server connected first — a Skill's sandbox can't reach an outside API on its own there — see the full Desktop or web walkthrough.

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