reply-draft

Reply draft

Given a catch firing, your own agent drafts a reply in your voice and puts it where you can review and post it.

alertresult

What it does

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Step 1
A catch fires and pushes the result and its suggested action to your agent.
2
Step 2
The playbook holds a voice file and a set of rules: answer the question first, mention the product once, never in the first sentence.
3
Step 3
Your agent drafts the reply and leaves it where you review it. You post it. discatch never posts.
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Step 4
This playbook ships as a SKILL.md in the dcouple/discatch-playbooks repo so skills.sh and agent skill directories pick it up.

Sources it watches

HNHacker NewsDCDiscourseSOStack Overflow

The call it makes

Charged for: alert, result. Prices are on the pricing page.

curl

curl https://api.discatch.com/v1/catches \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISCATCH_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
    "name": "reply-draft: your product",
    "query": "\"your product\"",
    "sources": [
      "hackernews",
      "discourse",
      "stackexchange"
    ],
    "interval": "15m",
    "destination": {
      "type": "claude_code",
      "command": "/draft-reply"
    }
  }'

MCP · coming in phase 3

{
  "tool": "create_catch",
  "arguments": {
    "name": "reply-draft: your product",
    "query": "\"your product\"",
    "sources": [
      "hackernews",
      "discourse",
      "stackexchange"
    ],
    "interval": "15m",
    "destination": {
      "type": "claude_code",
      "command": "/draft-reply"
    }
  }
}

Common questions

Does discatch post the reply?

Never. discatch catches and hands off. It does not post, comment, or reply on any platform on your behalf. Reddit removed 40M or more spam posts in H1 2025 and banned automated reply tools like ReplyGuy. Drafting is your agent’s job from your voice file; posting is yours.

What does it cost per reply?

One alert unit per firing plus one result unit per item delivered. The draft itself runs on your agent at your own LLM cost. discatch does not charge for the drafting step.

Why not automate the posting too?

Platforms enforce against automated replies. Reddit bans accounts that post programmatically without disclosure. Hacker News detects and flags bot replies. The risk falls on the account holder, and no monitoring tool should create that risk for its users.

Can I use this on Hacker News threads?

Yes. Set the catch sources to hackernews and discourse. The playbook drafts a reply for any source. You review and post through the platform’s own interface.

How does the voice file work?

The voice file is a short document you write: your tone, your product’s name, words to avoid, the rule that the answer comes before any mention of your product. Your agent reads it before drafting. discatch does not write or host the voice file.

Last reviewed 2026-09-10 by Parsa Khazaeepoul, founder, dcouple. Copy from docs/playbooks.md.

Reply draft

What it does

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Sources it watches

Common questions