Claude Skill: Reddit Automation (AppleScript)

Grow your Reddit presence on autopilot — using AppleScript to control your real Chrome browser. Undetectable by Reddit's anti-bot systems.

What's Inside

Skill	Description
`reddit-cultivate`	Find rising posts, draft value-first comments, build karma automatically
`reddit-post`	Submit text/link posts to any subreddit with flair support

Why AppleScript?

Every other automation tool gets detected:

Tool	Problem
Playwright/Selenium/Puppeteer	Sets `navigator.webdriver=true` — instantly detected
Reddit API + OAuth	Rate limited, requires app registration
curl	IP blocked after a few requests
AppleScript + Chrome	Controls your real browser. Cookies, fingerprint, everything — indistinguishable from you clicking around.

Install

npx skills add PHY041/claude-skill-reddit

Or manually copy the .claude/skills/ directories into your project.

Requirements

macOS (AppleScript is macOS-only)
Google Chrome with "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" enabled:
- Chrome → View → Developer → Allow JavaScript from Apple Events
- Restart Chrome after enabling
Logged into Reddit in Chrome

Usage

Once installed, just tell Claude Code:

/reddit-cultivate

→ Checks your karma, scans rising posts in target subreddits, drafts thoughtful comments, posts them, and gives you a summary table with links.

Post to r/SideProject about my new open source tool

→ Drafts and submits a Reddit post using the reddit-post skill.

How It Works

AppleScript sends JavaScript to Chrome's active tab
Same-origin fetch hits Reddit's internal API (/api/me.json, /api/comment, /api/submit)
Cookies included automatically — you're already logged in
Results read back via the document.title trick

The document.title Trick

Since AppleScript can't directly read async JS results, we write them to document.title and read it back:

# Execute async JS
osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to tell active tab of first window to execute javascript "fetch(...).then(d=>{document.title=JSON.stringify(d)})"'
sleep 2
# Read result
osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to return title of active tab of first window'

Features

reddit-cultivate

Account status check (username, karma)
Scans rising posts across multiple subreddits in parallel
Drafts natural, value-first comments (no self-promotion)
Posts with rate limiting (4s between comments)
Outputs summary table with direct links to every comment

reddit-post

Submit text posts or link posts
Automatic modhash handling (CSRF protection)
Flair detection and application
Spam filter avoidance guidelines
Best posting times and templates

License

MIT

PHY041/claude-skill-reddit