# community-management

Turns an audience into a community where members talk to each other. Useful when you want to start a group or channel instead of chasing followers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 636 installs · ★ 199
- Author: social-media-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/community-management/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/community-management

## What it does

This is the strategy layer of the engagement cluster. It reads `brand-profile.md`, `social-strategy.md` and `audience-research.md` first, so the advice is grounded in who your people are and where they already gather. Then it draws the line between an audience and a community using one marker: are members talking to each other, or only to the brand? Skip that check and the group plateaus.

Four steps plus reference files. The space gets chosen along a spectrum — in-feed comment culture, then semi-owned channels and DMs, then owned groups, Discord, Substack or a newsletter. The skill tells you to max out in-feed before opening an owned space, and only commit to a space you can moderate from day one. After that come recurring rituals and seven moves for belonging, then nurturing the devoted core into advocates.

One limit matters. WoopSocial schedules ritual and announcement content, but it does not run Discord or Slack and does not show analytics. A human runs the space; the agent advises and drafts. Metrics are active members, returning members, member-to-member interaction and response time — read natively, never invented. Get a member's consent before putting them in a spotlight.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill community-management -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/community-management/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/community-management/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill community-management -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/community-management/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill community-management -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/community-management/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install social-media-skills/skills community-management
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/community-management/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill community-management -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills --path skills/community-management
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/community-management/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill community-management -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/community-management/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- tell an audience apart from a community
- pick a space that fits your audience instead of the hype
- set up recurring rituals instead of one-off activity
- find the devoted core and turn it into advocates
- measure relationship depth rather than follower count

## Example prompts
- Help me build a community around my brand, start with the audience diagnosis
- Should we open a Discord or is in-feed enough? Work through our audience
- Design rituals for the next month so members start talking to each other

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: community-management
description: >-
  Use to build a genuine community — turning an audience into people who interact with each
  other, not just with the brand. Run when the user asks how to build community, foster
  belonging/loyalty, create superfans, start a group/Discord channel, get members talking to each
  other, or move beyond chasing followers/virality. Reads
  brand-profile/social-strategy/audience-research. Community outperforms virality, measured by
  relationship depth/retention, not follower count. Covers the audience-to-community distinction
  (member-to-member interaction), choosing the space (in-feed -> semi-owned -> owned
  groups/Discord), recurring rituals, building belonging, and nurturing superfans into advocates.
  KPIs read natively, never fabricated. Advisory: WoopSocial schedules the content but does NOT
  run Discord/Slack or show analytics — the human runs the community, the agent drafts. Never
  fake community; get consent before spotlighting. Pairs with reply-and-comment-writer and
  crisis-and-moderation.
metadata:
  version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
---

# Community Management

Turn an **audience into a community** — the strategy layer of the engagement cluster. The tactical
skills handle the brand talking *to* people (`reply-and-comment-writer` = craft, `engagement-routine` =
cadence, `crisis-and-moderation` = when it goes wrong). This skill builds the space where members talk
*to each other.*

The 2026 shift is **broadcasting → belonging**: community **outperforms virality**, it's
**algorithm-proof** (closed spaces aren't suppressed by feed changes), and it's measured by
**relationship depth, not follower count.** A real community is a moat; an audience is rented.

## Step 0 — Read the context

Load `brand-profile.md`, `social-strategy.md`, `audience-research.md`: who these people are, what they
care about, and where they already gather.

## Step 1 — Diagnose: audience or community?

**The marker is member-to-member.** Diagnostic: is your comment section all *brand replies*, or are
**members talking to each other**? The goal is a **self-sustaining** space where members help each
other. Then define the **purpose** — the clear reason this community exists (no purpose → it plateaus).
See `references/audience-to-community.md`.
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