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Free open-source research tool · Setup guide

Agent Reach for Claude Code

A free tool that lets your AI agent read Reddit threads, YouTube comments, Instagram and LinkedIn, where customers actually talk. Here's how to install it in Claude Code, what each platform needs, and three research prompts to start with.

Keyword
RESEARCH
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7 min
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Ask an AI agent to research a market and it mostly reads what's easy to reach: wikis, news sites, blog posts. The useful stuff is somewhere else. On Reddit people say exactly what annoys them about a tool. Under YouTube videos they compare the software they already pay for. Agent Reach is a free, open-source project (MIT licence, just over 100,000 GitHub stars when I checked on 21 October 2026) that lets your agent go and read those places.

It picks, installs and health-checks a tool for each platform, and your agent then calls those tools directly: yt-dlp for YouTube, OpenCLI for Reddit and Instagram, a LinkedIn MCP server for LinkedIn. Below is the install for Claude Code, what each platform needs (some need a login, and I'll be straight about which), and three prompts for competitor research, customer complaints and gaps nobody is filling yet.

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  1. What it can reach
  2. What you need
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  4. Set up Reddit, Instagram and LinkedIn
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