Community & Developer Reddit Response Writer

What it does

/reddit-reply is a Cursor slash command. Type it in chat to run a saved workflow: Community & Developer Reddit Response Writer.

Generates helpful, non-spammy community answers for Reddit, Hacker News, and Discord that solve technical problems while introducing your product naturally.

Authentic, high-value technical answers for r/Nextjs, r/webdev, and Hacker News. Unlike a skill, a command is something you invoke on purpose. The agent does not decide to run /reddit-reply for you.

Why it exists

Founders retype the same multi-step prompt until it rots. /reddit-reply exists so the pipeline, all 4 steps of it, is a file in .cursor/commands, versioned with the repo.

It ships in the Marketing Kit. It is wired to the Community & Reddit Growth Lead (reddit-strategist) and Brand Identity & Tone Lead (brand-voice) agents. Required skills: Developer Community & Reddit Growth Playbook; Brand Voice Guidelines & Jargon Elimination.

When to use it

• Use when participating in relevant community discussions without getting banned.
• Use /reddit-reply when you want that pipeline, not a freeform chat. If you only need one step, use a narrower command or a single agent.
• Start a new chat. Do not run this command in a thread that just touched production SQL.

When not to use it

• Do not run /reddit-reply as a substitute for reading the diff. The command produces files; you still gate them.
• Do not chain it into a 40-turn chat. Fresh context is part of the design.
• Do not run it if you have not filled CURSOR.md. The pipeline will invent a stack.

Example workflow

1. Analyze original post question and extract technical pain points
2. Draft thorough, high-value technical explanation solving the problem
3. Add transparent, contextually appropriate product mention as an optional tool
4. Verify response adheres to subreddit self-promotion rules

Example usage

Type this in Cursor chat: /reddit-reply Write helpful answer on r/Nextjs introducing automated setup tools and rules

The command file tells the session which agents to adopt and which skills to read. You should see phase headers, not a single dump of code.

If a phase fails its gate, stop. Do not add 'just continue'.

Example output

• Expected artifact: docs/marketing/reddit-replies.md

Best practices

• Keep the prompt specific. /reddit-reply Write helpful answer on r/Nextjs introducing automated setup tools and rules is the shape: object, constraint, and outcome.
• Let the listed agents work in order: reddit-strategist → brand-voice.
• Save outputs in the repo. Chat-only answers evaporate.
• Marketing commands write to docs/marketing/ so the next command can read positioning before it writes a landing page.

Common mistakes

• Typing /reddit-reply with no object ('do the thing'). The pipeline will guess.
• Re-running the command in the same chat after a failed gate instead of fixing the failing file.
• Editing the command file to skip review so it 'goes faster'.
• Skipping the Developer Community & Reddit Growth Playbook skill that the command depends on.