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Discovery VS Lookup — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

When to use roulette vs trending vs peek, and how to present a pick.

How to install Discovery VS Lookup

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/surendranb-podcast-recommendations-discovery-vs-lookup/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/surendranb-podcast-recommendations-discovery-vs-lookup && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/surendranb/podcast-recommendations/HEAD/skills/discovery-vs-lookup.md -o ~/.claude/skills/surendranb-podcast-recommendations-discovery-vs-lookup/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Discovery VS Lookup does

description: When to use roulette vs trending vs peek, and how to present a pick.

Discovery vs lookup

Three tools, three jobs:

Tool	Job	When
`roulette`	LONG-TAIL discovery	"find me a show about X", "surprise me", "something I haven't heard of"
`trending`	What's popular NOW	"what's everyone listening to", chart check, genre health
`peek`	Recency on a known feed	"what has released lately", new-episode checks

The roulette is deliber

Alternatives in Development

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