r/AI_Agents: rules, karma requirements and posting culture
Close to half a million builders and curious users comparing notes on agent frameworks, harnesses and production failures. Text only, flaired, and heavily filtered.
AI Agents · Open on Reddit
- Members
- 455k
- Created
- 2023
- New posts a day
- 106.5
- Comments on a typical post
- 8
- New posts removed
- 39%
The short answer
r/AI_Agents does not publish a karma or account age requirement, but only about 61% of recent posts stayed up: Reddit's filters took roughly a quarter and AutoModerator held another 12%. Posts must be text with a flair, and links belong in the comments, not the post. Self-promotion is meant to be about one in ten of your posts and comments, with project links going in the weekly project thread. Posts that work read like engineering notes or an honest question, around 150 words.
Who posts here
The room runs from people asking which subscription to buy to people debating idempotency keys, tool-layer permissions and how to grade an agent's output. Beginner questions stay up and get friendly answers, including a first-timer asking which framework to learn. The posts that climb mostly assume you have built an agent and watched it fail, and the comments are written at that level.
- Software engineers building agents and coding harnesses, often with years in the job.
- Founders and agency owners running voice, sales or support agents for clients.
- Hobbyists running local models and personal assistants at home.
- Newcomers and non-technical users asking where to start or what to pay for.
- Vendors and students looking for feedback or survey answers.
Karma and account requirements
What it takes to get a post through in r/AI_Agents.
| Karma | Not stated publicly. AutoModerator held about 12% of recent posts for review, but its only public message is a pointer to the wiki, so the trigger is unpublished. |
|---|---|
| Account age | Not stated publicly. |
| Post type | Text only. Link, image and video posts are switched off. |
| Links | Keep them out of the post. A blog link goes in a comment, a project link in the weekly project display thread.Mods' wording: “Put your links in the comments, not the posts” |
| Post flair | On every post in our sample. Discussion is about 85%, then Resource Request and Tutorial. |
| Self-promotion ratio | About one promotional post or comment in ten. An account that only promotes gets banned.Mods' wording: “A good ratio is one out of ten posts/comments.” |
What AutoModerator says
The moderators' bot leaves these messages on posts. They are the closest thing to an official statement of the thresholds.
Thank you for your submission, for any questions regarding AI, please check out our wiki at https://www.reddit.com/r/ai_agents/wiki (this is currently in test and we are actively adding to the wiki)
What you can post
| Post type | Subreddit setting | Share of recent posts |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Allowed | 100% |
| Link | Not allowed | 0% |
| Image | Not allowed | 0% |
| Video | Not allowed | 0% |
| Poll | Allowed | 0% |
Post flairs in use
- Discussion 85%
- Resource Request 10%
- Tutorial 5%
What happens to a new post
Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.
- Stayed up61%
- Removed by Reddit's filters26%
- Held by AutoModerator12%
- Removed by moderators<1%
- Deleted by the author<1%
Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.
What happened when we posted here
We have posted here ourselves. This is how our own posts and comments fared.
- Stayed up
- 100%
- Removed by Reddit's filters
- <1%
- Removed by moderators
- 0%
- Period
- October 2025 to August 2026
The rules, in the mods' words
- 1
Be respectful
Treat others how you'd like to be treated
- 2
No spam
Spammers will be permanently banned.
- 3
Put your links in the comments, not the posts
This is mainly to prevent spam. If you have a blog post you want to link, link it in the comments. If you have a project you want to show off, link it in the weekly project display thread.
- 4
Limit self promotion
Self promotion is fine, but if your posts are all self promotion (including promotion of your projects/products), you will be banned. A good ratio is one out of ten posts/comments.
These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.
The culture
r/AI_Agents is where people who build with LLM agents compare notes. It is busy, over 100 posts a day, and every post is text. The usual shape is a few paragraphs on something you built, broke or measured, ending in a question. Titles are long, around 13 words, and four in ten are questions.
The posts that do best are incident stories and results. An internal bot that answered with confidential planning details. An agent that removed a compliance control to satisfy a ticket. A test of a dozen memory systems where a plain Markdown wiki tied for first. The other reliable format is a poll of the room: what is your setup, which model would you keep, has any agent changed your life.
The fault line is hype against experience. Popular threads argue that most tasks do not need an agent, that harnesses get overbuilt, and that the smartest model is not the best value. Next to them sit posts saying developers are finished. Members are also wary of being sold to: one asked for an explanation of agents without a sales pitch and said they felt swindled even here.
What lands
- Production failure stories with the mechanism explained and what you changed afterwards.
- Benchmarks you ran yourself, with the numbers and the setup described.
- Contrarian takes backed by experience, such as doing more with plain code and less with the model.
- Open questions about a specific problem, like how to build a kill switch for an agent stuck in a loop.
What gets removed or ignored
- Survey and thesis recruitment posts.
- Offers to sell accounts or cloud credits.
- Links in the post body. The rule sends them to the comments or the weekly project thread.
- Accounts whose history is all promotion. The rules say spammers are permanently banned.
- A large share never appears at all. Reddit's filters and AutoModerator together stopped more than a third of posts in the sample.
The unwritten rules
- Say the link is in the comments, then post it there. That is the accepted way to share a repo or a write-up.
- Disclose what is yours. Comments that link a project usually add a line saying so, and that keeps them welcome.
- Write like an engineer. Comments run long, around 47 words, and the good ones name the failure and the fix.
- A product post with no detail gets asked why anyone would not just use the coding agent they already have.
- Members complain a lot about AI-written text nobody read. A post that reads as generated starts at a disadvantage.
Self-promotion
The rule says self-promotion is fine as long as it is not all you do, and gives a ratio of about one in ten posts and comments. Links stay out of the post, and projects go in the weekly project display thread. In practice plenty of builders show their own work in ordinary Discussion posts, and those stay up when the post teaches something and the link waits in the comments. Bare launch posts get little response.
How people write here
- Typical post length
- 145 words
- Typical title length
- 13 words
- Titles phrased as a question
- 41%
- Typical comment length
- 45 words
- Comments that include a link
- 8%
- Posts that carry a flair
- 100%
When people post
- 0:00 UTC, 6
- 1:00 UTC, 10
- 2:00 UTC, 18
- 3:00 UTC, 17
- 4:00 UTC, 6
- 5:00 UTC, 22
- 6:00 UTC, 18
- 7:00 UTC, 21
- 8:00 UTC, 21
- 9:00 UTC, 14
- 10:00 UTC, 19
- 11:00 UTC, 22
- 12:00 UTC, 14
- 13:00 UTC, 32
- 14:00 UTC, 15
- 15:00 UTC, 17
- 16:00 UTC, 15
- 17:00 UTC, 20
- 18:00 UTC, 31
- 19:00 UTC, 20
- 20:00 UTC, 16
- 21:00 UTC, 9
- 22:00 UTC, 8
- 23:00 UTC, 9
New posts by hour of day, UTC.
Top keywords
The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/AI_Agents.
- agent 147 posts
- agents 111 posts
- ai agents 39 posts
- model 56 posts
- human 41 posts
- tool 52 posts
- task 34 posts
- ai agent 27 posts
- prompt 32 posts
- code 46 posts
- call 39 posts
- tasks 31 posts
- handle 32 posts
- context 32 posts
- tools 37 posts
- data 41 posts
- claude 30 posts
- workflow 26 posts
- instead 39 posts
- coding 23 posts
- comments 23 posts
- output 19 posts
- memory 21 posts
- voice 19 posts
- needs 27 posts
- browser 19 posts
- loop 17 posts
- wrong 29 posts
- checks 19 posts
- muse 11 posts
- models 23 posts
- fix 25 posts
- calls 22 posts
- api 22 posts
- part 36 posts
- failure 16 posts
- cases 17 posts
- handling 19 posts
- system 28 posts
- project 28 posts
Common questions
How much karma do you need to post in r/AI_Agents?
No karma or account age requirement is stated publicly. AutoModerator did hold about 12% of recent posts for review and Reddit's own filters removed about a quarter, so new or low-activity accounts should expect some posts not to appear. The subreddit does not say what triggers the hold.
Can I promote my product in r/AI_Agents?
Yes, within limits. The rules allow self-promotion if it is roughly one in ten of your posts and comments, and say accounts that only promote will be banned. Put the link in a comment or in the weekly project display thread, not in the post, and make the post useful without it.
Can I post links in r/AI_Agents?
Not as a post. The subreddit only accepts text posts, and the rules ask you to put links in the comments to prevent spam. Blog posts go in a comment under your own post. Projects go in the weekly project display thread.
Why did my r/AI_Agents post not appear?
About 39% of recent posts did not stay up. Most were caught by Reddit's spam filters or held by AutoModerator for review, and very few were removed by a moderator directly. Check that the post is text only, has a flair and has no links in the body, then message the moderators if it is still missing.
Data as of October 4, 2026. Numbers come from public Reddit data (the Arctic Shift archive and GummySearch) sampled on this date. Removal share counts posts taken down by moderators, AutoModerator or Reddit's own filters. Banner and icon belong to the community. Moderators change rules without notice, so treat the sidebar as the final word.
