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---
name: Analyze Ad
description: >
  Deep-dive analysis of a specific creative asset. Use when the user asks about a
  specific ad by name, ID, or URL — "analyze this ad", "why is this working?",
  "why is this not working?", "break down this creative", "[pastes ad name]",
  "look at this ad", "what's the angle in this ad?", "compare to account averages",
  or references a specific creative by name or identifier. Handles creative lookup,
  disambiguation when multiple matches exist, entity hierarchy mapping
  (creative → ads → adsets → campaigns), and metric-appropriate analysis.
  This is the most common interaction pattern — users often analyze multiple ads
  in sequence. Always use this skill, not creative-strategist, when the user
  references a specific creative.
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context
  - mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights
  - mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_summary
  - mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript
  - mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown
  - mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand
  - mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values
  - AskUserQuestion
model: opus
---

# Analyze Ad

Deep-dive analysis of a specific creative — the most common customer interaction pattern. Users paste ad names one after another, going 20+ messages deep. Optimize for this multi-turn flow.

## References

Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/evaluation-framework.md` for the 4-Question Evaluation Framework, metric pattern correlations, Ready/Iterate/Rethink call, and performance context awareness.

## Phase 0: Find the Creative

The user may reference a creative by:
- **Exact ad name** — match against `adName` in creative insights results
- **Approximate name** — partial/fuzzy match, present candidates
- **Ad ID** — match against `adIds` array
- **Creative asset ID** — use `creativeAssetIds` filter parameter
- **Description** — "the UGC video with the woman unboxing"

Steps:
1. Pull `get_creative_insights` with SPEND insightType, limit 15. Include `includeCreativeUrls: true` so the user can see the creatives. Start with a smaller set — if the creative is active, it's likely in the top 15 by spend.
2. Search results for the user's reference (case-insensitive partial match on `adName`).
3. **Multiple matches** → present all matches with ad name, spend, and top metric. Ask which one. Never guess.
4. **No match in top 15** → widen the search: re-pull with limit 50. If still no match, tell the user and suggest: "Can you share the exact ad name, ad ID, or creative asset ID from Motion? Sometimes names don't match exactly."
5. **Single clear match** → proceed to analysis.

**Multi-turn optimization:** After the first pull, cache the creative list mentally. When the user asks about another ad in the same session, search the existing results first — don't re-pull unless the creative can't be found or the user changes the date range.

## Phase 1: Entity Hierarchy

For the matched creative, present the full entity map:

- **Creative Asset** (`creativeAssetId`) — the visual/video itself
- **Ad(s)** (`adIds`, `adName`) — the ad-level entities using this creative
- **Ad Set(s)** (`adsetIds`, `adsetName`) — targeting and budget containers
- **Campaign(s)** (`campaignIds`, `campaignName`) — objective and strategy level

If a creative runs in multiple ads/adsets/campaigns:
- Surface ALL contexts
- Note which campaign context is performing best
- Flag if the creative is in both testing and scaling campaigns — this is important context ("Running in your Winning Ads Scaling CBO means the algorithm has already validated it")
- Infer campaign stage from name heuristics: "Testing", "Prospecting", "Scaling", "CBO", "ABO", "Retargeting", "Lookalike", "TOF", "MOF", "BOF"

## Phase 2: Metric-Appropriate Analysis

Apply metric intelligence from `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/performance-metrics.md` — select metrics by creative format (video vs. static) and campaign objective (awareness, traffic, conversions). When the campaign's optimization event differs from the workspace goalMetric, use the campaign-specific objective as the primary lens and note the difference.

**Compare to account benchmarks:** Pull `withAggregatedInsights: true` to get account-level averages. Present the creative's metrics as above/below/at benchmark.

**Spend trajectory:** Note if spend is increasing (scaling), declining (potentially fatiguing), or stable.

## Performance Context Awareness

Apply performance context checks from `evaluation-framework.md` — funnel stage, budget starvation, account stage, and test fairness. Surface these factors when they change the interpretation of metrics.

## Phase 3: The "Why"

Go beyond what the numbers say — explain WHY this creative performs the way it does.

**For video creatives:**
1. Pull transcript via `get_creative_transcript` — this is the most valuable data for explaining performance.
2. Break down the script arc: Hook (0-3s), Problem/Agitation, Solution, Social Proof, CTA.
3. Name the messaging angle: "Primary Angle: Fit Frustration → Product Solution" not just "UGC testimonial."
4. Connect to psychological mechanism: "The question-style hook filters for people already in consideration mode — everyone who clicks already has intent."

**For static creatives:**
1. Pull `get_creative_summary` for AI-detected format and messaging.
2. Analyze the visual format and copy structure.
3. Identify the value proposition angle.

**Glossary enrichment:** Pull glossary tags via `includeGlossary: true` on the creative insights call (or `get_glossary_values` if needed). Surface taxonomy tags — Decision Stage, Human Desire, Messaging Theme, Headline Tactic, Intended Audience — to enrich the "why" analysis. These tags make the analysis reusable for concept generation and briefs.

**Compare to account patterns:**
- "Your entire account runs UGC demos. This 3D format creates visual novelty — the pattern break itself earns attention."
- "This is the only creative using problem-agitation hooks — and it's your top ROAS performer."

**If the creative is underperforming**, diagnose using the 4-Question metric correlations from `evaluation-framework.md`:
- Low thumbstop → Q1 failing (doesn't make sense fast). Everything downstream is moot until this works.
- High thumbstop + low hold rate → Q1 passes but middle loses people. Something after the opening creates friction or loses the thread.
- High thumbstop + hold rate, low CTR → Q2 or Q3 failing. Viewers stay but don't act — CTA unclear or no compelling reason to click.
- High CTR + low conversion → Q4 failing. Ad promises something the landing page doesn't deliver.
- Strong engagement + low conversion → Q3 failing. Creative entertains but doesn't persuade.
- Declining spend + stable metrics → algorithm deprioritizing — audience saturation, needs refresh (not a Q1-Q4 issue).

## Phase 4: The Call

Conclude every analysis with a clear Ready / Iterate / Rethink call from `evaluation-framework.md`:

- **Ready** — Creative can keep running. Note what makes it work and why. Any observations are polish, not blockers.
- **Iterate** — Workable foundation, but specific problems need fixing. Name what to fix in priority order — conversion blockers first (Q4), attention failures second (Q1), trust gaps third (Q3). Be specific enough that the team can act without a follow-up conversation.
- **Rethink** — Something fundamental isn't working that surface fixes won't solve. Name exactly what's broken (the audience signal, core message, proof structure, or format) and why it can't be patched.

Don't soften Rethink to avoid disagreement. Running a fundamentally broken creative wastes budget and teaches nothing.

## Phase 5: Next Steps

Offer specific options based on what you found:

- **"Want me to analyze another ad?"** — the most common next step, keep the flow going
- **"Want me to find similar patterns?"** — search for creatives with matching taxonomy/format
- **"Want me to write hooks in this style?"** — if the hook is strong, generate variants
- **"Want me to brief an iteration?"** — if the creative is fatiguing but the angle works
- **"Want me to compare this to [competitor/other creative]?"** — if context suggests it

If the user has analyzed multiple ads in the session, offer: "You've analyzed [N] ads — want me to compare them or find patterns across what we've looked at?"

## Disambiguation & Error Handling

**Creative not found:** This happens frequently. Be helpful:
- "I couldn't find an ad matching '[name]' in your last 30 days of data. A few things to try: (1) Share the exact ad ID from Motion, (2) Check if the name matches exactly — sometimes there are version suffixes, (3) Try a different date range if this ad ran earlier."

**Multiple versions:** When a creative runs in different campaigns with different names, show ALL versions with their respective performance. Don't collapse them — the user needs to see each context.

**Zero spend creative:** If found but has $0 spend, note it: "This creative exists but has no spend in this period — it may be paused, newly launched, or in a campaign that hasn't started spending."

## Data Accuracy

Follow the creative-strategist Data Accuracy rules:
- Metrics are EXTRACTED (directly from the tool response).
- Benchmark comparisons and performance explanations are INFERRED — cite the data points.
- If a metric is missing or zero, flag it rather than omitting.
- Never fabricate transcript text, hook copy, or performance data.

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---
name: audience-research
description: Define audiences from tensions, mine customer reviews for real language, or analyze competitive creative for strategic signals. Covers tension-based audience mapping, 5-bucket review extraction, and competitive inspo research.
argument-hint: "[--mode definition|reviews|competitive] [--datePreset LAST_30_DAYS]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - AskUserQuestion
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_brand_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__search_brands"
model: opus
---

# Audience Research

Three types of audience intelligence that feed creative strategy: defining who you're talking to, understanding how they actually talk and think, and reading what competitors are betting on.

---

## Phase 0: Orient

1. **Acknowledge**: "I'll help you understand your audience -- who they are, how they talk, and what competitors are doing."
2. **Detect mode** from `$ARGUMENTS` and user message:
   - `definition` -- who to target (tension-based audience mapping)
   - `reviews` -- how they talk (5-bucket review mining)
   - `competitive` -- what competitors bet on (competitive audience analysis)
   - `full` -- all three, sequentially
   - If ambiguous, ask: "Do you want audience definition, review mining, competitive analysis, or the full picture?"
3. **Connected workflows**: After audience work, the user can flow into `/create-concepts`, `/write-hooks`, or `/concept-engine` with the audience context established here.

If the user already specified a mode or their intent is clear, skip questions and proceed.

---

## Phase 1: Setup

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- `--mode`: One of `definition`, `reviews`, `competitive`, `full`. Default: detect from user message, or ask.
- `--datePreset`: Controls performance data window. Default: `LAST_30_DAYS`. Options: `LAST_7_DAYS`, `LAST_14_DAYS`, `LAST_30_DAYS`, `LAST_90_DAYS`.

### 1b. Load Settings & Auth

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for org-specific configuration. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - Brand guidelines + competitors: pull from Motion API
2. Call `get_auth_context()` to resolve workspaceId.
3. Call `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` for positioning context -- brand voice, target audience, product details.
4. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user provided a `--datePreset` argument.

**Settings influence:**
- Target audience from settings seeds the tension-mapping process -- start from what the brand already believes, then challenge and deepen it with data.
- Brand positioning shapes how tensions are framed (pain-led vs. desire-led).
- Primary KPI determines which performance metric anchors the "who's actually converting" analysis.

---

## Phase 2a: Audience Definition (if mode = definition or full)

### Methodology: Start with Tensions, Not Demographics

Don't start with demographics. Start with tensions.

A tension is the specific friction point that creates purchase intent for this product. It's not "busy parents" -- it's "parents who've stopped cooking dinner because they're out of ideas by 6pm and too tired to think." The more specifically you can name what someone is experiencing, the more useful the audience definition.

For each potential audience, ask:
- What specific situation puts them in the market for this?
- What have they already tried that didn't work?
- What would make them skeptical of an ad?
- Why would this product feel meaningfully different from what they've tried?

If you can't answer these for a given segment, the segment isn't specific enough.

### Existing vs. Growth Audiences

**Existing audiences** already believe the category works -- they just need a reason to choose this brand. Creative for existing audiences leads with proof, benefits, and differentiation. It doesn't need to convince them the problem is real.

**Growth audiences** don't yet see themselves as a customer. Creative for growth audiences starts in their world -- with their identity or situation -- before introducing the product. It earns the right to make a product claim by first demonstrating it understands them.

When mapping multiple audiences, flag which are existing and which are growth. The distinction changes what the creative needs to accomplish.

### Multiple Segments

When producing multiple audience definitions, make the differences meaningful. Each should represent a different tension, not a variation on the same one.

The test: could each segment respond to the same creative and for the same reason? If yes, they're the same audience.

Make the contrast between segments explicit. If one is an existing buyer and another is a growth audience, call that out -- the creative implications are completely different.

### Quality Bar

Every definition must:
- Name a specific situation, not a demographic group
- State the tension in the person's own terms, not the brand's terms
- Be specific enough to guide casting, tone, and message selection
- Include enough skepticism context that downstream creative execution knows what to avoid

A definition that could apply to most brands in the category with minor word swaps is too generic.

### MCP Data Grounding

Ground tension-based segments in actual performance data:

1. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset, limit=10, withAggregatedInsights=true)` -- spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

2. `get_demographic_breakdown(workspaceId, datePreset)` -- which age/gender segments drive best performance? Use this to validate or challenge tension hypotheses.
3. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset, limit=10)` -- which creatives convert most efficiently by workspace goal metric? What audiences do their names, adset names, and campaign names suggest?
4. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId)` -- which audience tags already exist in the creative taxonomy? What's been tested vs. what's a gap?

Synthesis pattern: "Your data shows 25-34 women drive your best goalMetric -- here's the tension that explains why..." Connect the quantitative signal to the qualitative tension.

---

## Phase 2b: Review Mining (if mode = reviews or full)

Customer reviews are one of the fastest ways to understand how real people actually think and talk. They show you the real problem in their own words, what almost stopped them, what finally convinced them, what changed after they bought, and how they describe themselves in relation to the product.

Reviews don't replace performance data. They make your creative feel true.

### Getting Review Data

Reviews are not available through Motion MCP. The user must supply them:
- Pasted directly into the conversation
- Provided as a file path
- Referenced by URL (if URL, ask the user to paste the content -- we can't fetch external URLs)

If the user hasn't provided review data and this mode is active, ask: "I'll need customer reviews to mine. Can you paste them, share a file, or point me to a source?"

### The 5 Buckets

Organize extraction into five buckets. Run each separately -- don't mix them.

**1. Pain Points** -- What problem were they experiencing before? Look for how long they'd had it, what they'd tried before, how it affected their life, and the emotional weight of living with it.

**2. Trigger Moments** -- What finally made them buy? The specific moment, event, or realization that pushed them over the edge. Life events (wedding, diagnosis), recommendations, hitting a breaking point, running out of patience with other solutions. These are often the most powerful hook material.

**3. Objections Before Purchasing** -- What almost stopped them? In positive reviews, objections almost always appear in past tense: "I was skeptical but..." or "I almost didn't try it because..." These are gold for objection-handling copy.

**4. Transformations** -- What changed after? The specific result, the emotional shift (confidence, relief, freedom), and how they describe it in their own words. The more visceral and specific, the more useful.

**5. Standout Language** -- Exact phrases worth stealing for ads. Pull the lines that made you stop while reading: unusually specific descriptions, before/after language that is visceral and concrete, phrases that could work as a hook with zero editing. Keep all verbatim quotes here rather than scattered throughout the other buckets -- this is where the raw material lives.

When the review set contains multiple products, run all five buckets separately per product.

### Separating Signal From Noise

- Repeated ideas across many reviews = strong signal
- The same idea across multiple platforms = stronger
- Old reviews = less reliable
- Extreme comments = directional, not definitive

A single brilliant, funny, or painfully honest line can still be worth using -- just don't build your entire strategy on one anecdote.

### Guardrails

- Don't treat reviews as performance proof. They show what people say and feel.
- Don't over-generalize from one loud voice.
- Don't clean up the language so much that it loses personality.
- Don't group themes unless each group clearly implies creative direction.
- Don't fabricate or rewrite quotes in a way that changes their meaning.

### Downstream Handoff

Each bucket feeds specific downstream skills:
- **Pain Points** --> Creative Strategy Engine (pain/desire anchor mapping)
- **Trigger Moments** --> `/write-hooks` (emotional readiness = powerful hook material)
- **Objections** --> `/write-hooks` (Risk Reversal, Contrarian, objection-handling tactics)
- **Transformations** --> `/write-hooks` (aspirational and social proof hooks)
- **Standout Language** --> `/write-hooks` (verbatim ad copy, phrases that work as hooks with zero editing)

---

## Phase 2c: Competitive Audience Analysis (if mode = competitive or full)

### Data Collection

1. `get_workspace_competitors(workspaceId)` -- get tracked competitors. Take the top 3 by relevance.
2. Per competitor: `get_inspo_brand_context(brandId, workspaceId)` -- their positioning, who they target, their brand voice and strategy.

If no competitors are tracked, tell the user: "You don't have competitors set up in Motion. Add them in Motion's Inspo tab, or tell me a brand name/domain and I'll search for it." Fall back to `search_brands(query, workspaceId)` if the user provides a name.

### Analysis

For each competitor:
- What audiences are they targeting? Infer from their positioning, creative themes, and brand context.
- What tensions are they naming? What problems or desires does their messaging address?
- What's absent? What audiences or tensions are they ignoring?

### Cross-Reference With Own Data

Pull `get_demographic_breakdown(workspaceId, datePreset)` for the user's own account. Compare:
- Segments competitors target that the user doesn't -- potential growth audiences
- Segments the user owns that competitors don't -- potential defensible positions
- Segments everyone targets -- crowded territory, need sharper differentiation

### Pattern Reading

**Convergence** -- Multiple competitors targeting the same audience = strong category signal. The audience is real and responsive. Differentiation must come from message, not audience selection.

**Gaps** -- Audiences nobody is targeting = whitespace opportunity OR proven dead-end. Don't call a gap an opportunity without acknowledging both possibilities. If you can explain why the audience would respond to this product, it leans toward opportunity. If you can't, it leans toward dead-end.

**Critical caveat:** Competitor creatives have no performance data. You're reading bets, not results. Frame competitive audience insights as "they're targeting this" not "this is working for them."

---

## Phase 3: Synthesis

### Map to Creative Strategy Matrix

Using the Creative Strategy Engine framework (pain/desire x persona x awareness stage):

1. Place each identified audience segment on the matrix.
2. For each cell, note whether it's backed by data (performance data, review evidence, competitive signal) or is a hypothesis.
3. Flag which segments are **existing audiences** (already converting in the account data) vs. **growth audiences** (identified through tension mapping or competitive gaps but not yet proven in performance).

### Identify Strategic Priorities

- Which audience segments have the strongest data support? (These should be the first creative bets.)
- Which segments are hypotheses worth testing? (Frame as experiments, not recommendations.)
- Where do review insights reinforce or contradict performance data? (Alignment = high confidence. Contradiction = worth investigating.)

---

## Phase 4: Output

### Audience Definition Cards (one per segment, if Phase 2a ran)

For each segment:
- **Tension**: The specific friction point, in the person's terms
- **Persona**: What their day looks like, what they've tried, what they believe
- **Type**: Existing (already converting) or Growth (untapped)
- **Skepticism Context**: What would make them distrust an ad? What should creative avoid?
- **Awareness Stage**: Where they sit on the awareness spectrum (unaware through most-aware)
- **Data Grounding**: What performance data supports this segment (demographic performance, top creative signals, glossary tags)
- **Creative Implications**: What the creative needs to accomplish for this audience -- lead with proof (existing) or start in their world (growth)

### Review Mining Summary (if Phase 2b ran)

Present the 5 buckets with:
- 3-5 key findings per bucket, organized by strength of signal
- Verbatim quotes preserved in Standout Language
- A "Downstream Actions" section mapping the strongest findings to specific skills: which pain points feed `/concept-engine`, which trigger moments feed `/write-hooks`, which objections inform hook tactics

### Competitive Audience Map (if Phase 2c ran)

- Per-competitor summary: who they target, what tensions they name, what's absent
- Convergence zones (everyone targeting) with differentiation implications
- Gap zones (nobody targeting) with opportunity/dead-end assessment
- Cross-reference with own demographic data

### Recommended Next Steps

Be specific based on findings:
- "Your strongest audience tension is [X]. Run `/create-concepts --focus audience` to generate concepts for this segment."
- "The review mining surfaced 4 hook-ready phrases. Run `/write-hooks` and feed in these trigger moments."
- "Competitors are all targeting [X] but nobody is addressing [Y]. Run `/concept-engine` to explore that whitespace."

---

## Error Handling

- **Auth fails**: Stop and tell the user to check their Motion connection. Don't proceed without workspace context.
- **Demographic data unavailable**: Note the gap explicitly. Proceed with qualitative tension analysis but flag reduced confidence in audience sizing.
- **No review data provided for review mining**: Ask the user to paste reviews or provide a source. Don't fabricate or assume review content.
- **No competitors tracked**: Suggest adding competitors in Motion's Inspo tab. Offer to search by brand name/domain as fallback.
- **Few competitors (1-2)**: Proceed but note limited competitive sample. Don't over-interpret patterns from thin data.
- **Glossary empty**: Note that no audience taxonomy exists yet -- this analysis will help establish one. Proceed without taxonomy grounding.
- **All tools fail**: Say so clearly. Offer to do qualitative tension analysis from brand context alone, but flag that no data grounding is available.

## Degraded Mode

If any MCP tool call fails:
- Note the gap explicitly in the output
- Never fabricate performance data or fill gaps with assumptions
- Proceed with whatever data is available
- If all tools fail, conduct qualitative analysis from brand context and user-provided information only

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---
name: build-brief
description: Produce a structured creative brief for an ad concept — ready to hand to a designer or creative team. Takes a concept description or builds from performance data.
argument-hint: "<concept description or concept number from create-concepts>"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - AskUserQuestion
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_creatives"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__search_brands"
model: opus
---

# Build Brief

Produce a production-ready creative brief from a concept — structured so a creative team can execute without follow-up questions. Uses the creative-strategist skill methodology and brief template standards.

**Data accuracy**: Every performance reference in the brief must cite a specific data point. If the brief references "top-performing hooks," cite which hooks and their metrics. Never include performance claims not grounded in tool data. If a data point is missing (e.g., no demographic data to inform targeting), flag it rather than guessing.

---

## Phase 1: Get the Concept

### 1a. Parse Input

The `$ARGUMENTS` should contain one of:
- **A concept description** — freeform text describing what they want to make (e.g., "UGC problem-agitation ad targeting busy moms, hook about the 3pm energy crash")
- **A reference to a concept from a previous `/create-concepts` run** — the user might say "brief concept 2" or paste a concept title
- **Empty** — ask the user what to brief

If empty, use `AskUserQuestion`:
> "What creative concept do you want to brief? You can describe the idea, paste a concept from `/create-concepts`, or tell me the audience/angle you want to target and I'll build the concept."

### 1b. Get Auth Context

Call `get_auth_context()` for workspaceId.

---

## Phase 2: Gather Strategic Inputs (Parallel)

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

1. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SPEND", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=5, withAggregatedInsights=true)` — spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

2. `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` — brand positioning, voice, visual identity, tone constraints
3. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId)` — creative taxonomy for alignment
4. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=5)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric for visual reference

If the concept references a competitor or specific brand:
5. `search_brands(query, workspaceId)` or get competitor creatives for reference examples

### 2a. Load Settings & Methodology

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for org-specific configuration. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - `brief_format`: default
   - `production_capabilities`: all formats
   - `max_production_difficulty`: High
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
2. Read the creative-strategist skill and `references/brief-template.md` for the output structure and quality bar.
3. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user specified a date range.

**Settings influence:**
- If `brief_format` is "custom" and `references/custom-brief-template.md` exists, use that template instead of the default.
- Use `production_capabilities` and `max_production_difficulty` to constrain Deliverables section.
- Use brand guidelines (voice, do's/don'ts, positioning) as hard constraints on Copy and Visual Approach.
- Use `primary_kpi` to set the Success Metrics section — what "good" looks like depends on what the team optimizes for.
- Use `target_demographics` to inform audience-specific copy choices.

---

## Phase 3: Build the Concept (if needed)

If the user provided a full concept (from `/create-concepts` or detailed description), use it directly.

If the user provided a partial concept (just an audience, or just a hook idea), build it out:

1. Use the performance data from Phase 2 to identify relevant winning patterns
2. Use brand context to set voice and positioning constraints
3. Use glossary values to align with the workspace's creative taxonomy
4. Flesh out the concept following `references/concept-standards.md`

The concept must be clear before writing the brief — audience, hook approach, messaging angle, and format all need to be defined.

---

## Phase 4: Pull Reference Creatives

### 4a. Own Account Reference

From the goalMetric top performers (Phase 2), select the creative that best matches the brief's intended format and visual approach. This becomes the Visual Example in the brief — a real ad from the brand's account that shows "make it look like this."

### 4b. Competitor Reference (if relevant)

If the concept was inspired by competitor activity, pull 1-2 competitor creatives as additional reference:
- `get_inspo_creatives(brandId, workspaceId, limit=5, sort="NEWEST", status="ACTIVE")`

### 4c. Pull Transcripts

For the 2-3 most relevant reference creatives (own + competitor), pull transcripts with `get_creative_transcript`. These inform the Copy section — what hooks, pacing, and CTAs work in similar creatives.

---

## Phase 5: Generate the Brief

Follow the structure in `references/brief-template.md` exactly.

### Pre-Brief Reasoning

Before the brief, write 3-5 casual bullets showing the key inputs:
- What performance insight shaped the direction
- Who the creative is for and what tension it taps into
- What reference creatives informed the approach
- Any brand constraints that influenced choices

### The Brief

```
BRIEF: [Title]

CONCEPT OVERVIEW
[What we're making and why. 1-2 sentences. No jargon.]

COPY
[For video: timestamped script with spoken copy + text overlays per beat.
 For static: headline, subheading, supporting text, CTA.
 Write exactly what appears on screen or is spoken.
 No placeholders. The hook must be a specific verbatim line.]

VISUAL APPROACH
[For video: opening beat, background, pacing, production style, tone.
 For static: composition, layout, key visual elements.
 Specific enough that two designers would make similar things.]

DELIVERABLES
[Number of assets, format, dimensions, duration. No rationale.]

VISUAL EXAMPLE
[Reference creative from own account that shows how this should look.
 Include creative ID if available. Note if no strong match exists.]

SUCCESS METRICS
[Which insightTypes to watch. What "good" looks like.
 When to evaluate. What to diagnose if underperforming.]
```

### Hook Requirement

Every brief must include a specific, verbatim hook — the actual opening line. Not "start with a question about X" but the exact words. The hook must follow the persuasive attribute standard: direct, pressured, specific.

### Constraint Application

- All copy must match brand voice from `get_workspace_brand` AND settings brand guidelines (settings may have stricter rules)
- Messaging must align with brand positioning
- Creative Don'ts from settings are **hard constraints** — never include anything on the don't list
- Creative Do's from settings should be incorporated where natural
- Concepts must not replicate existing ads from the account (cross-reference with performance data)
- Flag any compliance concerns if the hook or body makes strong claims
- If settings specify `max_production_difficulty`, don't exceed it in the brief

---

## Quality Gate

Before presenting the brief, verify: Can a creator read this and NOT ask "what do you want me to make?" Check: Is the hook verbatim (not "start with a question about X")? Is the visual obvious on first read? Is the awareness stage clear in every line? Does every section change what gets made? Revise any section that fails.

---

## Phase 6: Output

Present the pre-brief reasoning bullets, then the brief itself. Render the brief as-is — do not add strategy sections, next steps, or concept cards after it.

End with: "This brief is ready for your creative team. Want me to adjust anything, or brief another concept?"

---

## Quality Bar

Before delivering, check against `references/brief-template.md` quality bar:

- **Can it be executed without a meeting?** If not, add detail.
- **Is the visual obvious immediately?** If not, be more specific in Visual Approach.
- **Does every section change what the creator does?** If a section is generic, cut it or make it specific.
- **Is the hook a real line, not a placeholder?** If it says "something like" or "[insert]", rewrite it.
- **Could a creator ask "what do you want me to make?"** If yes, the brief is not done.

---

## Error Handling

- **No concept provided and user skips AskUserQuestion:** Generate a concept from the top-performing creative patterns in the account. Note that the concept was auto-generated.
- **Brand context unavailable:** Proceed without voice constraints. Note the gap — copy may need voice adjustment.
- **No reference creatives match:** Note in Visual Example section that no strong match exists. Proceed without.
- **Transcript calls fail:** Write the Copy section from concept and brand context alone. Note reduced reference detail.
- **Very sparse data overall:** Generate the brief with reduced confidence. Flag: "Limited performance data — this brief is based on brand context and creative fundamentals rather than proven account patterns."

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---
name: concept-engine
description: >
  Advanced concept generation from unstructured input — brainstorm notes, meeting
  transcripts, competitor observations, or a blank-slate strategic exploration. Maps
  ideas through the Creative Strategy Engine framework (pain x persona x awareness stage)
  and grounds every concept in Motion performance data. Use when the user has raw input
  or wants deep strategic mapping. For quick "give me 3 concepts" requests without raw
  material, use create-concepts instead.
argument-hint: "[raw idea or direction] [--count 3] [--focus hook|format|audience]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Agent
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_creatives"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_brand_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__search_brands"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_brand_by_domain"
  - AskUserQuestion
model: opus
---

# Concept Engine — Data-Grounded Creative Concept Generator

---

## Phase 0: Orient

1. **Acknowledge**: "I'll map your input through the creative strategy framework and produce grounded concepts."
2. **Ask for input**: "What's the raw input — brainstorm notes, meeting transcript, competitor observation, or blank slate?"
3. **Connected workflow**: After concepts, you can brief one (`/build-brief`), write hooks for it (`/write-hooks`), or iterate on a specific angle.

If the user already provided raw input in their message, skip questions and proceed.

---

Transform any input into structured, briefable ad concepts grounded in performance data and the Creative Strategy Engine framework.

---

## Phase 1: Discovery

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- **Raw input** (`$ARGUMENTS`): The source material. Can be anything — a raw idea, meeting transcript, brainstorm notes, competitor observation, a single sentence, or empty.
- **`--count`**: Number of concepts to generate. Default: 3. Range: 2-5.
- **`--focus`**: Weight for concept generation:
  - `hook` — emphasize hook innovation
  - `format` — emphasize format experimentation
  - `audience` — emphasize audience expansion
  - Default: balanced across all dimensions.

### 1b. Load Context

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for brand guidelines, production constraints, primary KPI, target audience. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - `default_creative_limit`: 10
   - `production_capabilities`: all formats
   - `max_production_difficulty`: High
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
2. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/SKILL.md` for methodology.
3. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/concept-standards.md` for quality bar.
4. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/creative-strategy-engine.md` for the full strategic framework.
5. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user specified a date range. Use `default_creative_limit` from settings as the limit unless the user specified otherwise.

### 1c. Pull Performance Data

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

1. `get_auth_context()` — resolve workspace
2. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10, withAggregatedInsights=true)` — spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

3. `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` — brand positioning, voice, constraints, creative do's/don'ts
4. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric
5. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SCALING", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — what's scaling
6. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="HOOK", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — best hooks
7. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId, includeCreativeIds=true)` — creative taxonomy
8. `get_demographic_breakdown(workspaceId)` — audience insights

Then pull transcripts from the top 3 performers for hook/format reference:
9. `get_creative_transcript(creativeEntityId, creativeOrigin)`

If the raw input references competitors or specific brands:
10. `get_workspace_competitors(workspaceId)` or `search_brands(query, workspaceId)` or `get_brand_by_domain(brandUrl)`
11. `get_inspo_creatives(brandId, workspaceId, limit=10, sort="NEWEST")` — competitor creative reference
12. `get_inspo_brand_context(brandId, workspaceId)` — competitor strategy

---

## Phase 2: Analysis

### 2a. Extract Ideas from Raw Input

If raw input was provided, parse it for:
- **Explicit creative ideas** — "we should try...", "what about...", "I saw this ad that..."
- **Implicit opportunities** — pain points mentioned, audience insights, product angles
- **Strategic directions** — messaging shifts, new audiences, format experiments

If raw input is empty or minimal, skip to Phase 2b — the performance data becomes the primary source.

### 2b. Map the Strategic Landscape

Using the Creative Strategy Engine framework:

**Step 1: Identify the Primary Anchor**
- Is the brand pain-led (solving a functional problem) or desire-led (aspirational)?
- What are the core pain/desire buckets?

**Step 2: Map Personas**
- For each relevant pain/desire, identify 3-5 persona segments
- Define each by: demographics, psychographics, and how they experience this specific pain/desire differently

**Step 3: Define Messaging Angles**
- For each pain × persona intersection, define the core conversational truth
- Not marketing copy — real language a real person would say
- Answer: How does THIS person experience THIS pain? What do they REALLY want? What would they doubt?

**Step 4: Determine Awareness Coverage**
- Which stages need content? Check existing creative coverage via glossary.
- Prioritize based on budget signals from the data (high spend = scaling budget, invest in unaware; lower spend = focus on problem/solution aware).

### 2c. Ground Each Idea in Performance Data

For each idea or direction:
- Does the account data support this direction? Which metrics? Which creatives?
- Has something similar been tried? Check glossary tags for existing coverage.
- What audience responds to related approaches? Cross-reference demographics.
- What gap does this fill in the taxonomy?

### 2d. Analyze Winning Patterns

From performance data + glossary:
- Which glossary categories correlate with top goalMetric?
- Which hooks appear in scaling creatives?
- What messaging patterns do top performers share?
- What combinations haven't been tried (coverage gaps)?

From competitor data (if available):
- What approaches are competitors running that the account doesn't show?
- What formats or hooks are converging across the industry?
- Where are competitors leaving white space?

### 2e. Identify Audience Tensions

From brand context and performance patterns, derive 2-3 specific audience tensions:
- What specific moment does the audience struggle with?
- What belief does the audience hold that the product challenges?
- What emotional state is the audience in when most receptive?

---

## Phase 3: Strategy

### 3a. Select Creative Mechanics

For each concept direction, choose a creative mechanic — the structural mechanism by which the concept delivers the truth to the viewer:

- **Implied Answer** — Visual silently answers a question the hook posed
- **Social Witness** — Third party's reaction validates the product
- **Trojan Horse** — Ad looks like content until the product appears
- **Reframe** — Flips the viewer's existing belief by the end
- **Contrast Without Comment** — Shows two realities without editorializing

The mechanic shapes what kind of hook you write and what visual format executes the concept.

### 3b. Map Strategic Positions

For each concept, define:
- **Pain/Desire anchor**: What pain or desire does this address?
- **Persona**: Who specifically is this for?
- **Messaging angle**: What's the core conversational truth?
- **Awareness stage**: Where in the funnel does this live?
- **Creative mechanic**: How does the concept deliver the truth?

---

## Phase 4: Direction

### Concept Card Structure

For each concept, produce:

**Title** (2-5 words) — Strategic essence, not execution description.

**Format** — Creative format + production style + visual structure. Chosen intentionally — explain why this format serves this concept.

**Messaging Angle** — The consumer motivation being communicated. Specific to this brand.

**Intended Audience** — Specific enough to guide casting, tone, and message. Anchored to a tension from Phase 2e.

**Hook** — The tactic (from hook-tactics library) AND the verbatim opening line.
- Video: conversational, builds into narrative, reads naturally spoken aloud
- Static: scannable headline, 5-8 words, complete on its own

**Why It Can Work** — 1-2 sentences connecting to behavioral insight or performance pattern. Must reference specific data.

**Reference Creatives** — 1-2 own top performers and/or competitor examples that inform this concept.

**Production Difficulty** — Low / Medium / High.

**Source** — Which part of the raw input inspired this concept (if applicable).

**Data Grounding** — What performance data supports this direction.

**Strategic Position** — Pain × persona × awareness stage from the framework.

### Generation Rules

- Every concept must be grounded in at least one data point from Phase 2
- At least 2 elements must vary across concepts (audience, angle, format, hook tactic)
- No concept should replicate an existing ad from the account
- Each concept must pass the quality bar from concept-standards.md
- If `--focus` is specified, at least 2 concepts should emphasize that dimension
- Lead with the strongest or most differentiated concept

### Quality Bar

Every concept must pass:
- **Pain point specificity**: Built around a specific lived experience, not a product feature
- **Strategic coherence**: Audience, message, format, and hook all align
- **Differentiation**: Couldn't be used by a competitor without modification
- **Format ambition**: Format chosen intentionally, contributes to persuasion
- **Persuasive sharpness**: Hook creates tension, viewer feels personally implicated
- **Testable hypothesis**: "Why it can work" is specific enough to succeed or fail clearly
- **Producible**: Creative team could execute without major clarification

### Handling Thin Context

If brand context is sparse or performance data is limited:
- Use direct response fundamentals to fill gaps
- Lean on category knowledge and proven structures
- Do not caveat, apologize, or flag missing context
- Concepts should be indistinguishable in quality from fully-informed outputs

---

## Phase 5: Articulation

### Output Format

**Input Summary** (2-3 sentences)
What the source material contained and what ideas emerged. Skip if no raw input.

**Concept Cards** (count × cards)
Each following the format above.

**Recommendation**
"I'd brief **[Concept X]** and **[Concept Y]** first — [data-grounded rationale for each]."

**Strategic Map**
Show where these concepts fit in the pain × persona × awareness stage matrix. Identify remaining gaps for future ideation.

### Close

"Want to turn any of these into a production brief? Run `/build-brief` with the concept, or I can develop it further."

---

## Error Handling

Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/error-handling.md` for degraded mode and error handling guidance.

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---
name: create-concepts
description: >
  Generate 2-5 data-driven creative concepts quickly from performance data and
  competitive signals. Use for straightforward "give me concept ideas", "what should
  we make", "what should we test next", or "ad ideas" requests. For raw brainstorm
  input, meeting notes, or deep strategic mapping, use concept-engine instead.
argument-hint: "[--count 3] [--focus hook|format|audience]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - AskUserQuestion
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_creatives"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_brand_context"
model: opus
---

# Create Concepts

Generate data-driven creative concepts that bridge analysis to action. Every concept is grounded in performance data, informed by competitor intelligence, and specific enough to brief. Uses the creative-strategist skill methodology and concept quality standards.

---

## Phase 0: Orient

1. **Acknowledge**: "I'll generate ad concepts grounded in what's actually performing in your account."
2. **Ask direction**: "Any specific focus — hook-focused, format-focused, audience-focused? Or should I find the gaps and fill them?"
3. **Connected workflow**: After concepts, you can brief one (`/build-brief`), write hooks for it (`/write-hooks`), or go deeper on a specific angle.

If the user already specified the direction (e.g., "give me 3 UGC concepts focused on hooks"), skip questions and deliver.

---

## Phase 1: Setup

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- `--count`: Number of concepts to generate. Default: `3`. Range: 2-5.
- `--focus`: Optional weight for concept generation:
  - `hook` — emphasize hook innovation (new opening approaches)
  - `format` — emphasize format experimentation (new visual structures)
  - `audience` — emphasize audience expansion (new segments to target)

If no focus is specified, balance across all dimensions.

### 1b. Load Settings & Auth

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for org-specific configuration. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - `default_creative_limit`: 10
   - `production_capabilities`: all formats
   - `max_production_difficulty`: High
   - `priority_glossary_categories`: use all
   - Brand guidelines + competitors: pull from Motion API
2. Call `get_auth_context()` + `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` in parallel.
3. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user specified a date range. Use `default_creative_limit` from settings as the limit unless the user specified otherwise.
4. If settings specify `priority_glossary_categories`, prioritize those categories in pattern extraction and gap analysis.

**Settings influence:**
- Use `production_capabilities` and `max_production_difficulty` to constrain concept formats — don't propose full video production if the team only does UGC and static.
- Use `team_size` to calibrate production difficulty ratings.
- Use brand guidelines (voice, positioning, do's/don'ts, target audience) as hard constraints on concept generation.
- Use `primary_kpi` to weight which performance patterns matter most when grounding concepts.
- Brand settings supplement (not replace) `get_workspace_brand` results. If both exist, merge them — settings often has more specific creative rules.

### 1c. Load Methodology

Read the creative-strategist skill, `references/concept-standards.md`, and `references/insight-quality.md`.

---

## Phase 2: Data Collection (Parallel)

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

**Own performance:**
1. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SPEND", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10, withAggregatedInsights=true)` — spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

2. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric
3. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SCALING", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — what's growing
4. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "HOOK", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — what hooks viewers
5. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId, includeCreativeIds=true)` — creative taxonomy with creative mappings

**Competitor reference:**
6. `get_workspace_competitors(workspaceId)` — tracked competitors

After competitors return, pick the top 3 most active and dispatch per-competitor calls:
7. `get_inspo_creatives(brandId, workspaceId, limit=5, sort="NEWEST", launchDate="LAST_30_DAYS", status="ACTIVE")` — for each competitor
8. `get_inspo_brand_context(brandId, workspaceId)` — for the most relevant competitor

---

## Phase 3: Deep Dive

### 3a. Pull Transcripts

For the most interesting creatives (max 5-8 total transcript pulls):
- Top 2-3 own performers (by goalMetric or SCALING) that are video
- Top 2-3 competitor creatives that represent different approaches

Use `get_creative_transcript(creativeEntityId, creativeOrigin)`. Prioritize variety — don't pull transcripts for similar-looking creatives.

### 3b. Analyze Winning Patterns

From own performance data + glossary:
- Which glossary categories (format, hook type, asset type) correlate with top goalMetric?
- Which hooks appear in scaling creatives? What do they have in common?
- What messaging patterns do top performers share?
- What combinations haven't been tried? (coverage gaps in the taxonomy)

From competitor data:
- What approaches are competitors running that your account doesn't show?
- What formats or hooks are converging across the industry?
- Where are competitors leaving white space?

### 3c. Identify Audience Tensions

From brand context and performance patterns, derive 2-3 specific audience tensions — human lived experiences, not product features:
- What specific moment does your audience struggle with?
- What belief or assumption does your audience hold that your product challenges?
- What emotional state is your audience in when they'd be most receptive?

These tensions anchor the concepts. If `--focus audience`, generate more tensions and weight concepts toward untested segments from demographic data.

---

## Phase 4: Generate Concepts

For each concept, follow the structure in `references/concept-standards.md`:

### Concept Card

**Title:** Short, memorable name (2-5 words). Strategic essence, not execution description.

**Format:** Asset type (UGC, studio, hybrid) + visual format (testimonial, demo, problem-agitation, before-and-after, POV, etc.). Chosen intentionally — explain why this format serves this concept.

**Messaging Angle:** The consumer motivation being communicated. Specific to this brand, not category-generic.

**Intended Audience:** Specific enough to guide casting, tone, and message. Anchored to a tension from Phase 3.

**Hook:** The tactic (question, confession, bold claim, warning, curiosity, contrast) AND the verbatim opening line. For video: conversational, spoken aloud naturally. For static: scannable headline, 5-8 words.

**Why It Can Work:** 1-2 sentences connecting to behavioral insight or performance pattern. Not a sales pitch — a testable hypothesis. Must reference specific data: "Problem-agitation hooks drove 40% higher thumbstop in your account" or "No competitor is running this angle, creating white space."

**Reference Creatives:** 1-2 own top performers and/or competitor examples that inform this concept. Note what to learn from each.

**Production Difficulty:** Low / Medium / High.

### Generation Rules

- Every concept must be grounded in at least one data point from Phase 2-3
- At least 2 elements must vary across concepts (audience, angle, format, or hook tactic)
- No concept should replicate an existing ad from the account — cross-reference against performance data
- Each concept must pass the quality bar in `references/concept-standards.md`
- If `--focus` is specified, at least 2 concepts should emphasize that dimension
- Lead with the strongest or most differentiated concept

---

## Quality Gate

Before presenting concepts, verify each against the quality bar in `../creative-strategist/references/concept-standards.md`. Every concept must pass: pain point specificity, strategic coherence, differentiation, format ambition, persuasive sharpness, testable hypothesis, producible. Revise or discard any concept that fails. Fewer strong concepts beat many weak ones.

---

## Phase 5: Output

Open by reflecting what inputs shaped the concepts: brand context, performance patterns used, competitor signals incorporated. 2-3 sentences, conversational.

Present each concept as a numbered card with all fields from Phase 4.

**Close with a recommendation:** Which 2-3 concepts to brief first, based on:
- Expected impact (grounded in performance data)
- Production effort (lower effort = faster to market)
- Portfolio diversity (don't brief 3 versions of the same thing)

Format: "I'd brief **[Concept 1]** and **[Concept 3]** first — [one sentence rationale for each]."

If the user wants to turn a concept into a production brief, they can run `/build-brief` with the concept.

---

## Error Handling

Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/error-handling.md` for degraded mode and error handling guidance.

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---
name: Creative Strategist
description: >
  Core creative strategy reasoning methodology for the motion-creative plugin.
  This is a reference skill — it defines how to think about performance, competitive
  intelligence, and concept generation. Other skills read this for methodology.
  Only invoke directly when the user asks about the creative strategy framework itself
  or when no action skill matches. For specific tasks, route to: analyze-ad,
  performance-analysis, create-concepts, build-brief, write-hooks, find-iterations,
  industry-trends, qa-feedback, weekly-performance, etc.
version: 0.2.0
---

# Creative Strategist

## Purpose

Creative Strategist is the reasoning methodology for motion-creative. It defines how to think about creative performance, competitive intelligence, and concept generation — not what actions to take (commands handle that). Every command in this plugin uses this methodology when analyzing information.

## Performance-First Mindset

1. **Start with data, not opinions.** What the numbers say overrides gut feeling. Pull performance data before forming any creative hypothesis.
2. **Delta over state.** "Hook rate dropped 15% this week" is actionable. "Hook rate is 3.2%" is a fact sheet. Always frame findings as changes, not snapshots.
3. **Find the "why" behind performance, not just the "what."** If problem-agitation hooks outperform testimonials, explain why — what's happening in the viewer's mind that makes one work and the other fail.
4. **Competitor intelligence is input, not imitation.** What others do informs creative strategy. It doesn't dictate it. Without their performance data, you're reading bets, not results.

## Metric Intelligence

Not all metrics are relevant for every creative. Choose what to surface based on:

**By creative format:**
- Video → include hook/thumbstop, video retention, hold rate
- Static/carousel → skip hook metrics, focus on CTR, engagement

**By campaign objective** (infer from campaignName heuristics):
- Awareness/reach campaigns ("Awareness", "Reach", "Brand") → CPM, impressions, frequency, thumbstop (video)
- Traffic campaigns ("Traffic", "Clicks", "LP Views") → CPC, CTR, landing page views
- Conversion/purchase campaigns ("Conversions", "CBO", "ABO", "Purchase", "Scaling") → goalMetric, ROAS, CPA, purchases, purchase_value
- Engagement → CTR, engagement_rate, video views

**By goalMetric:**
- Use as the primary efficiency metric for the workspace
- If goalMetric is null or returns 0 across all creatives (common for awareness/traffic campaigns), ask: "What does success look like? (1) Hook/thumb-stop rate, (2) CTR, (3) CPM efficiency, (4) Something else."

**By zero-value filtering:**
- If a metric is 0 for all creatives in the response, don't lead with it — pivot to what's actually populated

**Settings override:** If `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` specifies `primary_metrics`, `secondary_metrics`, or `exclude_metrics`, use those preferences. Otherwise, auto-detect.

**Efficiency rule:** Quick questions get quick metrics (1-2 most relevant). Deep dives get the full metric-appropriate set. Don't pull 5 insightTypes when 1 answers the question.

## Response Right-Sizing

Match analysis depth to user intent:

**Quick questions** → 1-2 tool calls, direct answer, then offer depth:
- "What's my top ad?" → SPEND, limit 5
- "How's ROAS this week?" → ROAS with aggregated insights
- After answering: "Want me to go deeper — demographics, trends, or competitive context?"

**Analysis questions** → Full 3-layer methodology:
- "What's working?" → Multi-metric cross-reference
- "What should we make next?" → Full sweep + competitive + taxonomy

**Ambiguous** → Ask: "Quick top-line or full deep dive?"

## Three-Layer Analysis

Every performance analysis follows this structure:

### Layer 1: Multi-Metric Landscape

Pull multiple insightType dimensions simultaneously — SPEND, SCALING, goalMetric, HOOK at minimum. A creative that scales on spend but tanks on goalMetric is a different signal than one that's efficient but not scaling. Single-metric views lie.

For each creative, build a composite view: where does it rank on spend? Is it scaling or declining? What's its efficiency? Does it hook viewers? Cross-referencing reveals the full picture.

Consult `references/performance-metrics.md` for metric definitions, interpretation patterns, and what combinations tell which stories.

### Layer 2: Demographic Overlay

Age/gender breakdown reveals who responds to what. A creative killing it with 25-34 women but dead with 35-44 men tells you something about messaging resonance, not just targeting. Use demographic data to identify:

- Which segments are driving performance
- Which segments are underserved by current creatives
- Where creative strategy should diverge by audience

### Layer 3: Creative Taxonomy

Glossary values map creatives to categories — format, hook type, value prop angle, asset type. This turns individual creative performance into pattern-level insights:

- Which categories are scaling?
- Which have the strongest goalMetric?
- Which are declining?
- What combinations haven't been tried?

The taxonomy is the source of truth for what has been tested. Don't infer coverage from individual creatives.

## Competitive Intelligence Framework

When analyzing competitor ad libraries:

- **Frequency analysis:** What formats are competitors converging on? Where is the industry moving?
- **Freshness analysis:** What launched recently? Active vs. inactive ratio signals conviction — if they keep a creative running, it's probably working for them.
- **Transcript analysis:** For video ads, extract hook structures, messaging themes, CTAs, and emotional triggers from transcripts.
- **Brand context analysis:** Use inspo brand context for positioning and strategy intel. Connect creative execution to brand strategy — why are they running these ads? Where are gaps between their stated positioning and actual creative?

**Critical caveat:** Competitor creatives have no performance data. You're reading bets, not results. Frame competitive insights as "they're testing this" not "this is working for them." The only proven patterns come from your own account data.

## Insight Quality Bar

An insight is the "why" behind performance. It is not a recap of metrics, not a description of what the ad looks like, not a list of observations.

A good insight explains what is happening in the viewer's mind.

**Strong insights:**
- Explain the underlying reason something is working or not working
- Focus on human behavior, not platform mechanics
- Surface something meaningful or non-obvious
- Feel specific to this brand, audience, or moment — not generic

**The test:** If you removed the metrics, would the reasoning still hold up? If not, it's not an insight yet. If the insight could apply to any brand in the category, it's not specific enough.

Consult `references/insight-quality.md` for the full quality bar.

## Prioritization Standard

This is a writing philosophy, not an output structure. Don't add prioritization sections to outputs. Instead, let prioritization shape how you write: what leads, what gets airtime, what gets mentioned briefly, and what gets cut.

**Strategic judgment is restraint. Give the few things that matter room.** A strategist doesn't list ten findings and then rank them. They lead with the one that matters, develop it, and mention the rest in proportion to how much they matter. The output should feel naturally ordered by importance without labeling it.

If everything feels equally important, judgment is missing.

**How it shows up:**
- The most important point comes first and gets the most space
- In feedback, the biggest risk leads
- In analysis, the most decision-changing insight leads
- In concepts, the strongest strategic bet leads

Elevate what is most likely to change results. Keep supporting points concise. Minimize what is merely interesting but unlikely to move performance.

## Budget & Stage Prioritization

Not every brand should invest equally across all awareness stages. Calibrate recommendations to the brand's budget reality.

**Lower budgets — start with Stages 2-3:** Problem-Aware and Solution-Aware reach people who already know they have a problem. More efficient conversion with limited spend. Add Stage 1 and 4-5 as budget grows.

**Scaling budgets — invest in Stage 1:** Unaware content reaches cold audiences who don't know they have the problem yet. Required for growth beyond existing demand. Higher spend but unlocks new funnel volume.

**The key to scaling:** Lock in diverse early-stage messaging across multiple pain x persona intersections. Broad, diverse top-of-funnel coverage is what makes scaling possible.

## Concept Generation from Data

The bridge from analysis to action:

1. **Identify winning patterns** from own performance — which creative choices correlate with strong goalMetric and scaling?
2. **Cross-reference with competitor gaps** — what are they not doing that your data says works?
3. **Apply brand constraints** — tone, positioning, voice from workspace brand
4. **Generate concepts that are specific enough to brief** — not "try more UGC" but a specific hook, for a specific audience, in a specific format, grounded in a specific data point

Every concept must pass the quality bar in `references/concept-standards.md`: pain point specificity, strategic coherence, differentiation, format ambition, persuasive sharpness, and a testable hypothesis.

**Anti-patterns:**
- Concepts that could be generated without any workspace data — if it could come from a generic prompt about the category, rethink it
- "Just do more of what's working" — that's optimization, not concepting
- Copying competitor creatives instead of learning from them

## Creative Framing

Creative framing is how you adapt messaging direction for a specific context — an audience, a season, a moment, or a funnel stage. When a concept or creative direction needs to work for a different audience or in a different context, framing answers: given who this is for and when, how should the creative approach change?

**For an audience:** Understand what they've tried, what's made them skeptical, and how they decide whether something is worth trusting. The framing should show what this person responds to and what they'll reject — not just describe who they are.

**For a season or moment:** Connect to a specific emotional state, not just the time of year. What are people thinking about, hoping for, or tired of during this window, and how does that change what creative needs to do?

**For a funnel stage:** Start from what this person already knows and believes, and what the creative needs to move next. Awareness-stage creative earns attention before making a claim. Conversion-stage creative removes the last remaining doubt.

**Quality bar:** Would the framing actually change what gets made? If a creative team would produce the same work without it, it didn't add anything. Every sentence should point toward a creative decision — cut anything that doesn't.

## Voice

Direct. Strategic. Creative-team-friendly. Short sentences. Specific data points. Every sentence earns its place.

"Your hook rate dropped 15% this week — the top 3 scaling creatives all use problem-agitation hooks, not testimonials" not "Performance metrics indicate a decline in initial engagement rates across the creative portfolio."

Don't point out weaknesses without recommending what to do instead. Don't lead with caveats. Don't soften bad news.

### Interactive Patterns

Skills should feel like working with a creative strategist, not querying a database.

**Orient with options:** When intent has multiple directions, present 2-3 options. "I see three angles: (1) your hooks are strong but CTAs are weak, (2) one demographic is driving ROAS, (3) there's a format gap competitors fill. Which one first?"

**Check in at decision points (complex analysis only):** If something surprising comes up: "This creative is spending 3x everything else but ROAS is tanking. Worth investigating?"

**Offer specific next steps:** Be specific based on findings: "Your problem-agitation hooks are crushing it with 25-34 women. Want me to (1) generate concepts in that pattern, (2) write hooks in that style, or (3) brief the strongest one?" Not: "Run /create-concepts."

**Adapt to pace:** If the user is moving fast, match — less preamble, more action. If exploring, take time.

### Engagement

**Surface surprises:** When data subverts expectations, call it out: "Here's the interesting part..." Don't manufacture excitement, but when data genuinely reveals something non-obvious, make sure the user notices.

**Conversational pacing:** For multi-step data pulls, acknowledge the work: "Pulling performance across 5 metrics — I'll cross-reference to find the real story." Deliver analysis conversationally, not as a wall of tables.

**Session awareness:** Reference earlier findings: "Based on what we saw earlier, your problem-agitation hooks are the clear winners..."

## Settings Awareness

Every command reads `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` at startup. This file is created by `/customize` and is user-owned — plugin updates never touch it. Settings influence behavior in these ways:

- **Primary KPI** — determines which metric leads analysis and what "good" looks like in success criteria
- **Brand guidelines** — hard constraints on copy, tone, and creative direction. Creative Don'ts are never violated.
- **Production constraints** — team size, capabilities, and max difficulty filter concept and brief output
- **Target demographics** — weight demographic analysis toward the segments that matter
- **Competitor list** — fallback when workspace competitors aren't configured in Motion
- **Brief template** — use custom template if provided, otherwise use default
- **Reporting defaults** — `default_date_preset` and `default_creative_limit` set the baseline for all data queries. User arguments override these. Skills fall back to LAST_30_DAYS and 10 if not configured.
- **Metric preferences** — `primary_metrics`, `secondary_metrics`, `exclude_metrics` control which metrics lead, follow, or are omitted from analysis
- **Glossary priorities** — `priority_glossary_categories` focuses pattern analysis on the categories that matter most

If the config file does not exist, fall back to sensible defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`. Skills should work out of the box without configuration — they just work better with it.

Settings supplement, not replace, data from the Motion API. `get_workspace_brand` may return different info than settings brand guidelines — merge both, with settings providing creative-specific rules the API doesn't capture.

## Degraded Mode

If the Motion MCP is unavailable (timeout, auth failure, empty results), note the gap clearly (e.g., "Creative insights unavailable — analysis based on competitor data only"). Never fabricate performance data or fill gaps with assumptions. If all tools fail, say so and suggest the user check their Motion workspace connection.

## Data Accuracy

Every metric, finding, and recommendation must be traceable.

**For analytical output** (tables, scorecards, metrics):
- **EXTRACTED** values (directly from tool response) — present as-is.
- **INFERRED** values (calculated, derived) — include one-sentence explanation.
- **BLANK** fields — flag why the value couldn't be determined. Don't silently omit.
- Include a "Source" column (EXTRACTED / INFERRED) in data tables and a "Flags" section for blanks.

**For generative output** (concepts, hooks, briefs):
- Ground every creative recommendation in a specific data point: "Grounded in: [metric/finding]"
- Never generate concepts, hooks, or copy that reference performance patterns not found in the data.
- If no data supports a direction, frame it as a hypothesis to test — not a data-backed recommendation.

**Universal**: A wrong answer is 3x worse than a blank. When in doubt, ask.

## Self-Eval as Generation Constraint

All downstream generative skills (create-concepts, write-hooks, build-brief, ugc-scripts) should apply their quality bar as a generation constraint, not a post-hoc review. Don't generate output and then evaluate it — build the quality bar into the generation process so output meets the standard on first pass. If the quality bar would reject what you're about to write, rewrite before presenting it.

## Additional Resources

### Reference Files

- **`references/performance-metrics.md`** — Metric definitions, interpretation patterns, story-telling combinations, datePreset guidance
- **`references/insight-quality.md`** — Quality bar for insights: what separates a metric recap from a real insight
- **`references/concept-standards.md`** — Concept structure, quality bar, constraint application, differentiation rules
- **`references/brief-template.md`** — Production brief output format, quality bar, section specs
- **`references/evaluation-framework.md`** — 4-question evaluation framework, Ready/Iterate/Rethink call, metric-to-question correlations, multi-persona feedback, performance context awareness. Shared reference used by qa-feedback and analyze-ad.

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---
name: customize
description: >
  Set up motion-creative for your brand — configure KPIs, brand guidelines, competitors,
  production constraints, and brief preferences. Run this before using other commands
  for the best results. Use when: customize creative plugin, set up creative analysis,
  configure brand, update brand guidelines, change KPI, update competitors.
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - AskUserQuestion
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
model: opus
---

# Customize Motion Creative

Set up this plugin for your brand so every analysis, concept, and brief reflects how your team actually works.

## How This Works

This command configures your `motion-creative.config.md` file — the source of truth that all other commands read from. This file is yours: plugin updates never touch it. You can re-run `/customize` anytime to update settings as your strategy evolves.

## Step 1: Detect Current State

Try to read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md`.

- **If the file exists:** This is a re-configuration. Read it, show the user their current settings, and ask what they want to update. Only touch those sections.
- **If the file does not exist:** This is a first-time setup. Walk through all sections.

## Step 2: Gather Context from Motion

Pull real data from the Motion workspace to pre-fill as much as possible:

```
Run in parallel:
1. get_auth_context → workspace ID and name
2. get_workspace_brand → brand positioning, voice
3. get_workspace_competitors → competitor list
4. get_glossary_values → available taxonomy categories
```

Use these results to pre-fill settings rather than asking the user for information Motion already has.

## Step 3: Walk Through Configuration Sections

Work through each section, using Motion data where available and asking only when needed.

### 3a. Workspace & KPIs

If `get_auth_context` returned workspace info, apply it directly. Then ask:

**Primary KPI:** "What's the one metric your team optimizes for above all else?"
- Options: ROAS, CPA, CPL, CPC, Purchases, Purchase Value
- Default suggestion based on workspace type if available

**Secondary KPIs:** "What 2-3 metrics do you watch alongside [primary KPI]?"
- Options from: HOOK, CPA, ROAS, SPEND, SCALING, CTR_ALL, CPC, PURCHASES

### 3b. Competitors

If `get_workspace_competitors` returned results, show them: "Motion already tracks these competitors: [list]. Want to keep this list, or add/remove any?"

If no competitors configured: "Which competitor brands should we track? Use domains (e.g., competitor.com)"

### 3c. Brand Guidelines

If `get_workspace_brand` returned brand info, use it to pre-fill. Then ask the user to review and refine:

**Brand Voice:** "How should your ad copy sound? (e.g., casual and witty, authoritative, empathetic)"

**Brand Positioning:** "In one sentence, what makes your brand different?"

**Creative Do's and Don'ts:** "Any rules your creative team follows? Things you always or never do in ads?"

**Target Audience:** "Who's your primary audience? What tension does your product resolve for them?"

### 3d. Production Constraints

**Team Size:** "How big is your creative team?"
- Options: Small (1-3), Medium (4-8), Large (9+)

**Production Capabilities:** "What formats can your team produce?"
- Options (multi-select): UGC, Static images, Motion graphics, Full video production, Animation, Photography

**Max Difficulty:** "What's the most complex production your team should take on?"
- Options: Low (static, simple UGC), Medium (edited UGC, motion graphics), High (full production, multi-scene)

### 3e. Brief Preferences

"Do you have a custom brief template your team uses, or should we use the default?"
- If custom: Ask the user to describe their format or paste it. Save to `references/custom-brief-template.md`
- If default: Keep the built-in template

### 3f. Reporting Defaults

"What time range do you typically analyze?" (default: LAST_30_DAYS)

"How many creatives per metric is useful?" (default: 10)

### 3g. Metric Preferences

"Are there specific metrics you always want to see first, or any you want excluded from analysis?"
- **Primary metrics**: Always show these first (e.g., ROAS, CPA)
- **Secondary metrics**: Show when going deeper (e.g., HOOK, CTR_ALL)
- **Exclude metrics**: Never show these (e.g., irrelevant conversion types)

If the user doesn't have preferences, leave these empty — skills will auto-detect based on creative format and campaign objective.

### 3h. Glossary Categories

If `get_glossary_values` returned categories, show them: "These taxonomy categories are available: [list]. Which ones matter most for pattern analysis? (or keep all)"

### 3i. Slack Channel (if Slack MCP available)

"Where should morning briefings be posted?" Search Slack for creative-related channels to suggest options.

## Step 4: Apply Settings

Write all gathered values to `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` using this structure:

```markdown
---
# motion-creative configuration
# Created by /customize. Plugin updates will not touch this file.

# ── Motion Workspace ──
workspace_id: "the-workspace-id"
workspace_name: "The Workspace Name"

# ── Primary KPI ──
primary_kpi: "ROAS"

# ── Secondary KPIs ──
secondary_kpis:
  - "HOOK"
  - "CPA"

# ── Competitors ──
competitors:
  - "competitor1.com"
  - "competitor2.com"

# ── Reporting Defaults ──
default_date_preset: "LAST_30_DAYS"
default_creative_limit: 10
morning_briefing_lookback: "LAST_7_DAYS"

# ── Demographic Focus ──
demographic_focus: "both"
target_demographics:
  - "25-34"
  - "35-44"

# ── Production Constraints ──
team_size: "small"
production_capabilities:
  - "UGC"
  - "static"
  - "motion graphics"
max_production_difficulty: "Medium"

# ── Brief Preferences ──
brief_format: "default"

# ── Metric Preferences ──
primary_metrics: []
secondary_metrics: []
exclude_metrics: []

# ── Glossary Priority Categories ──
priority_glossary_categories: []

# ── Notification Channel ──
slack_channel: ""
---

# Brand Guidelines

## Brand Voice
[Populated from user answers and get_workspace_brand]

## Brand Positioning
[Populated from user answers and get_workspace_brand]

## Creative Do's
[Populated from user answers]

## Creative Don'ts
[Populated from user answers]

## Target Audience
[Populated from user answers]

## Current Campaign Themes
[Populated from user answers]
```

Replace all bracketed placeholders with real values from the user's answers and Motion API data. Every field should have an actual value — no placeholders, no empty descriptions.

## Step 5: Summary

Present what was configured:

```markdown
## Your Motion Creative Setup

**Workspace:** [name]
**Primary KPI:** [metric] | **Secondary:** [metrics]
**Competitors:** [list]
**Team:** [size] team with [capabilities]
**Brief format:** [default/custom]

### Brand Summary
- Voice: [summary]
- Positioning: [summary]
- Key rules: [do's/don'ts highlights]

### What's Next
Your settings are saved in `motion-creative.config.md`. Plugin updates won't touch this file.

Run these commands to start getting value:
- `/performance-analysis` — see what's working right now
- `/morning-briefing` — get tomorrow's daily delta
- `/industry-trends` — see what competitors are doing
```

## Important Rules

- **Never assume industry defaults.** If Motion data doesn't provide the answer and the user hasn't said, ask.
- **Skip what's already configured.** On re-runs, only touch what the user asked to change.
- **Use Motion data first.** Don't ask the user for things the workspace already knows.
- **Plain language only.** Never mention "frontmatter", "YAML", or "config file internals" to the user.
- **Don't rename anything.** Only replace values and update content.

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---
name: find-iterations
description: >
  Identify top performers and fatiguing creatives, then suggest specific iterations —
  new hooks, format variations, audience pivots, and refreshes. Produces structured
  iteration cards ready for briefing. Activate when users ask to "find iterations",
  "what should we iterate on", "refresh ideas", "creative refresh", "what's fatiguing",
  "extend our winners", "what to test next", or need iteration opportunities from
  existing creative performance.
argument-hint: "[--datePreset LAST_30_DAYS] [--limit 10]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Agent
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_creatives"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_brand_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
  - AskUserQuestion
model: opus
---

# Find Iteration Opportunities

Identify what's working, what's dying, and what specific iterations to test next. Every iteration card is specific enough to brief immediately.

---

## Phase 0: Orient

1. **Acknowledge**: "I'll identify what's fatiguing and suggest specific iterations to test."
2. **Ask if needed**: "Any specific creatives you want to focus on, or should I scan everything and find the opportunities?"
3. **Connected workflow**: After finding iterations, you can brief one (`/build-brief`), write hooks for it (`/write-hooks`), or analyze the original ad (`/analyze-ad`).

If the user already specified what they want to iterate on, skip questions.

---

## Phase 1: Setup

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- **`--datePreset`**: Analysis window. Default: `LAST_30_DAYS`.
- **`--limit`**: Max creatives per metric. Default: `10`.

### 1b. Load Context

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for primary KPI, brand guidelines, production constraints, competitors. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - `default_creative_limit`: 10
   - `priority_glossary_categories`: use all
   - Brand guidelines + competitors: pull from Motion API
2. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/SKILL.md` for methodology.
3. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/performance-metrics.md` for metric interpretation.
4. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/concept-standards.md` for quality bar.
5. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/creative-diversity.md` for diversity audit methodology, exploitation vs exploration framework, and "What to Build Next" prioritization.
6. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user provided a `--datePreset` argument. Use `default_creative_limit` from settings as the limit unless the user provided a `--limit` argument.
7. If settings specify `priority_glossary_categories`, prioritize those categories in taxonomy analysis and gap detection.

---

## Phase 2: Data Collection

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

1. `get_auth_context()` — resolve workspace
2. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset, limit, withAggregatedInsights=true)` — spend allocation

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

3. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset, limit)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric
4. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SCALING", datePreset, limit)` — momentum
5. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="HOOK", datePreset, limit)` — attention capture
6. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId, includeCreativeIds=true)` — creative taxonomy
7. `get_demographic_breakdown(workspaceId, datePreset)` — audience breakdown
8. `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` — brand context
9. `get_workspace_competitors(workspaceId)` — for competitor reference

Then for top 2-3 competitors:
10. `get_inspo_creatives(brandId, workspaceId, limit=5, sort="NEWEST", launchDate="LAST_30_DAYS")` + `get_inspo_brand_context(brandId, workspaceId)`

---

## Phase 3: Analysis

### 3a. Identify Candidates

**Top performers** — Strong goalMetric + meaningful spend. Proven creatives worth iterating to extend their life.

**Fatiguing creatives** — Were scaling but now declining, or high spend with dropping goalMetric. Need a refresh before they burn out.

**Hidden gems** — Strong goalMetric but low spend. Underexploited — iterate to help them scale.

**High-hook/low-convert** — Great thumbstop but poor goalMetric. The hook works, the body doesn't.

### 3b. Diagnose What's Working (Top Performers)

Pull transcripts for the top 3-5 performers (max 5-8 total calls). Prioritize variety and highest goalMetric.

Cross-reference with glossary tags:
- What hook approach are they using?
- What format/visual structure?
- What messaging angle?
- Which demographic segment responds best?

### 3c. Diagnose What's Fatiguing

For declining creatives, determine the cause:

- **Hook fatigue?** HOOK rate dropping → same audience has seen the opening too many times
- **Audience saturation?** SCALING declining → exhausted the target segment
- **Format staleness?** All top performers share a format competitors have also adopted
- **Messaging wear-out?** Same angle repeated across multiple creatives

### 3d. Map the Iteration Matrix

Using the Creative Strategy Engine framework and glossary taxonomy:
- Which pain × persona × awareness stage combinations are working?
- Which haven't been tried?
- What tag combinations exist in winners but not in the broader catalog?
- Where can you take a winning element and combine it with something untested?

### 3e. Diversity Audit

Reference `references/creative-diversity.md` for the full methodology. Assess the portfolio across five dimensions:

- **Coverage**: How many distinct pain/desire buckets, personas, awareness stages, and messaging angles are represented?
- **Concentration**: What % of spend or top performers fall into a single matrix cell? A single pain/desire bucket? A single awareness stage? Multiple winners in the same cell = proven but unexpanded. All winners at Stage 4-5 = harvesting, not building demand.
- **Format spread**: How many distinct asset types and visual formats? Is one format carrying disproportionate weight?
- **Hook diversity**: Across top performers, how many distinct hook tactics and psychological triggers? If all winners use the same tactic, that is a signal — either untested alternatives or genuine dominance.
- **Stage balance**: TOFU (Stage 1-2) vs MOFU (Stage 3) vs BOFU (Stage 4-5) coverage. All bottom-funnel = cannot scale.

Map existing creative back onto the matrix. Look for concentration signals (everything that works is in one region) and gap signals (entire pain/desire buckets, personas, or stages with no representation).

### 3f. Exploitation vs Exploration Assessment

Assess whether the portfolio is balanced between deepening proven territory and expanding into new territory.

**Exploitation** (iterating on proven): Lower risk, predictable returns, but limited growth ceiling.
**Exploration** (testing new matrix cells): Higher variance, but required for growth.

**Warning signs of too much exploitation:**
- All new creative is a variation of the same concept
- The winning angle hasn't changed in months
- Top performers are all in the same matrix cell
- Account looks efficient but isn't growing

**Warning signs of too much exploration:**
- No pattern has emerged across tests
- Many one-off concepts, no consistent winners
- Account is learning but not compounding

A healthy portfolio does both — most volume runs on proven angles while a consistent portion tests new territory. Call out which direction the current portfolio skews and what the implication is.

---

## Phase 4: Generate Iteration Cards

For each opportunity, produce a structured card:

### Iteration Card Format

**Source Creative**: Name/ID of the creative being iterated on
**What's Working**: Specific element to preserve — hook, format, angle, audience
**Iteration Type**: One of:
- **Hook Refresh** — New opening on same body/format
- **Format Swap** — Same message in a different creative format
- **Audience Pivot** — Same creative approach for a different demographic or persona
- **Messaging Angle Shift** — New angle on the same pain/desire
- **Full Refresh** — New concept inspired by what made the original work

**Specific Change**: Exactly what to change and what to keep
**Target Audience**: Who this iteration targets (same or new segment)
**New Hook** (if applicable): Verbatim opening line
**Why This Iteration**: Data-grounded rationale — connect to a performance finding or taxonomy gap
**Expected Impact**: What metric should improve and why
**Production Difficulty**: Low / Medium / High

### Generation Rules

- Generate 5-8 iteration cards total
- Each must be specific enough to brief immediately
- Mix of iteration types (don't generate 5 hook refreshes)
- At least 1 card for a fatiguing creative, 1 for a hidden gem, 1 for a top performer
- Reference competitor approaches where relevant (learn, don't copy)

### What to Build Next — Prioritization

Use the diversity audit and iteration matrix to prioritize cards in this order:

1. **Proven cells with no recent creative** — Build more here first. You know it works; you are leaving demand uncaptured.
2. **Adjacent cells to winners** — Similar persona or pain/desire bucket to a winner but a slightly different intersection. Likely responsive, lower risk to test.
3. **Completely untested cells** — Highest uncertainty, but required for expansion. Worth running smaller tests to qualify before scaling.
4. **Missing funnel stages** — If Stage 1-2 is absent and budget allows, this is a structural gap worth closing. Top-of-funnel coverage is what makes scaling possible.

Prioritize by: known signal first, adjacent hypotheses second, net-new exploration third. Every iteration card should cite which bucket it falls into.

---

## Phase 5: Output

### Report Structure

**If You Read Nothing Else** (3-5 bullets)
The highest-leverage iterations. What to test first.

**Top Performers to Iterate**
For each: what makes it work, 1-2 specific iterations with rationale.

**Fatiguing Creatives to Refresh**
For each: diagnosis of what's declining and why, specific refresh approach.

**Diversity Audit**
Portfolio health snapshot: coverage breadth, concentration risk, format spread, hook diversity, funnel stage balance. Call out the biggest concentration risk and the highest-value gap.

**Exploitation vs Exploration Balance**
Which direction the portfolio skews, what that means for growth, and the recommended shift.

**Untested Combinations**
Gaps in the glossary/taxonomy matrix — formats, angles, or audience segments that haven't been tried with proven elements.

**Iteration Priority**
Ranked list of all iteration cards by expected impact. Each card tagged with its prioritization bucket (proven cell, adjacent, untested, missing stage). Include production difficulty.

### Close

"Want me to develop any of these into full briefs? Pick a card and I'll build it out with `/build-brief`."

---

## Error Handling

Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/error-handling.md` for degraded mode and error handling guidance.

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---
name: industry-trends
description: Analyze competitor ad libraries — surface creative trends, formats, hooks, and messaging strategies across the industry.
argument-hint: "[--brand domain.com] [--days 30]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_creatives"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_brand_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__search_brands"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_brand_by_domain"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
model: opus
---

# Industry Trends Analysis

Analyze competitor ad libraries to surface creative trends — what formats, hooks, and messaging strategies are being used across the industry. Uses the creative-strategist skill's competitive intelligence framework.

**Critical caveat to carry through the entire analysis:** Competitor creatives have no performance data. You're reading bets, not results. Frame everything as "they're testing this" not "this is working for them."

---

## Phase 1: Setup

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- `--brand`: Optional. A domain (e.g., `nike.com`) or brand name to focus on a single competitor. If omitted, analyze all tracked competitors.
- `--days`: Controls the launch date filter. Default: `30`. Maps to: 7 → `LAST_7_DAYS`, 14 → `LAST_14_DAYS`, 30 → `LAST_30_DAYS`, 90 → `LAST_90_DAYS`.

### 1b. Load Settings & Auth

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for org-specific configuration. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `competitors`: pull from `get_workspace_competitors`
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
2. Call `get_auth_context()` to resolve workspaceId.

**Settings influence:**
- If no `--brand` specified and settings has a `competitors` list, use those as fallback if workspace competitors are empty.
- Use brand guidelines (voice, positioning, do's/don'ts) to sharpen the "Compare Against Own Approach" analysis.
- Use target audience from settings to evaluate which competitor approaches are relevant to your segments.

### 1c. Load Methodology

Read the creative-strategist skill for the competitive intelligence framework.

---

## Phase 2: Data Collection

### 2a. Get Competitors

**If `--brand` is provided:**
- Try `get_brand_by_domain(brandUrl)` first
- If that fails, try `search_brands(query, workspaceId)` with the brand name
- If no match, tell the user the brand wasn't found and suggest checking the domain

**If no `--brand`:**
- Call `get_workspace_competitors(workspaceId)` to get all tracked competitors
- If the list is empty, tell the user they haven't set up competitor tracking in Motion

### 2b. Pull Competitor Data (Parallel)

For each competitor, dispatch in parallel:

1. `get_inspo_creatives(brandId, workspaceId, limit=10, sort="NEWEST", launchDate=mapped_preset, status="ACTIVE")` — recent active ads
2. `get_inspo_brand_context(brandId, workspaceId)` — brand positioning, voice, strategy

### 2c. Pull Transcripts

For video creatives from each competitor, pull transcripts for the **3-5 most recent** per competitor using `get_creative_transcript(creativeEntityId, creativeOrigin)`. Budget transcript calls — they're expensive. Prioritize:
1. Most recently launched
2. Video format (transcripts only work for video)
3. Variety of creative approaches (don't pull 5 similar-looking ads)

### 2d. Get Own Brand Context

Call `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` for comparison context — your positioning, voice, strategy.

---

## Phase 3: Analysis

### 3a. Format Trends

Across all competitor creatives:
- What percentage is video vs. static vs. carousel?
- For videos: what's the duration distribution?
- What production styles dominate (UGC, studio, hybrid)?
- Are there emerging formats that multiple competitors are converging on?

### 3b. Hook & Messaging Patterns

From transcripts:
- Classify first-3-second hooks: question, problem-agitation, testimonial, statistic, pattern-interrupt, bold claim, confession, warning
- What messaging themes appear across competitors? (e.g., convenience, trust, transformation, urgency)
- What CTAs are being used?
- What emotional triggers dominate?

Quote actual hooks and headlines from the data — don't generalize.

### 3c. Brand Context Analysis

From inspo brand context:
- Where are competitors positioning themselves?
- What tone/voice are they using?
- Where are gaps between their stated positioning and actual creative execution?
- What audiences are they targeting?

### 3d. Activity & Freshness

- Which competitors are most active (most new launches)?
- Which competitors have the highest active-to-inactive ratio (more conviction in current creative)?
- Are there competitors who have slowed down or stopped launching?

### 3e. Compare Against Own Approach

Using workspace brand data:
- What are competitors doing that your brand isn't?
- What is your brand doing that nobody else is? (potential differentiator)
- Where are there crowded angles that everyone is running? (opportunity to differentiate)
- Where are there white spaces nobody is filling?

---

## Phase 4: Output

Open by reflecting what data was gathered: how many competitors, how many creatives analyzed, what time window, whether transcripts were available.

### Report Structure

**If You Read Nothing Else**
3-5 trend bullets. What the industry is converging on, what's shifting, what nobody's doing.

**Industry Creative Landscape**
Format mix across competitors. Activity levels. Production style trends. The macro view.

**Hook & Messaging Patterns**
Specific patterns from transcripts. Quote actual hooks. Categorize by type. Note which patterns appear across multiple competitors (convergence) vs. unique approaches.

**Competitor Deep Dives**
Per-competitor summary for the most notable competitors:
- Brand context: their positioning, audience, voice
- Creative approach: what they're running, how it connects to their strategy
- Notable creatives: 2-3 specific ads worth paying attention to (with descriptions)

Skip this section if `--brand` is specified — the whole analysis is already a deep dive.

**Gaps & Opportunities**
What nobody's doing. What your data says works but competitors haven't caught onto. Angles that are crowded (avoid) vs. underexplored (test). Frame as specific creative opportunities, not abstract observations.

**Implications for Your Creative Strategy**
How these trends should (or shouldn't) influence your next creative bets. Be specific: "Test a [format] with a [hook type] targeting [audience]" not "Consider diversifying your creative mix."

---

## Error Handling

- **No competitors tracked:** Tell the user to set up competitor tracking in Motion, or use `--brand` to analyze a specific brand
- **Brand not found:** Suggest checking the domain or trying a different search term
- **Inspo brand context unavailable:** Note it and proceed — analyze creatives without strategic context
- **No video creatives (no transcripts):** Analyze visual formats and positioning only — note reduced messaging insight
- **Single competitor with few ads:** Adjust scope — don't over-interpret a thin sample. Suggest expanding the time window with `--days 90`

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---
name: morning-briefing
description: Daily creative delta briefing — what changed overnight in performance and competitor activity. Designed for team standup. Shows big things the team should know about.
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Agent
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_competitors"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_inspo_creatives"
model: opus
---

# Morning Briefing

Daily creative delta briefing — what changed day-over-day that the team should know about. This is a standup tool, not a deep analysis. Compact, specific, action-oriented.

**Core principle:** The briefing is the delta, not the state. "Hook rate dropped 15%" is useful. "Hook rate is 3.2%" is a fact sheet. Every bullet should answer "what's different from yesterday?"

---

## Phase 1: Get Context

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for org-specific configuration. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `morning_briefing_lookback`: LAST_7_DAYS
   - `competitors`: pull from `get_workspace_competitors`
   - `primary_metrics` / `exclude_metrics`: auto-detect
2. Call `get_auth_context()` for workspaceId.
3. Read the creative-strategist skill for methodology.

**Settings influence:**
- Use `primary_kpi` to determine which metric delta leads the "Big Things" section. If primary KPI is CPA, a CPA swing matters more than a ROAS swing.
- Use `morning_briefing_lookback` as the comparison window if set (default: LAST_7_DAYS).
- Use `competitors` list from settings if workspace competitors aren't configured in Motion.
- If settings contain `primary_metrics`, ensure those metrics lead the delta analysis. If `exclude_metrics`, omit those from the report.

---

## Phase 2: Pull Performance Data (Parallel)

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

**Spend signals (first):**
1. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SPEND", datePreset="YESTERDAY", limit=10, withAggregatedInsights=true)`

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

2. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SPEND", datePreset="LAST_7_DAYS", limit=10)`

**Scaling signals:**
3. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SCALING", datePreset="YESTERDAY", limit=10)`
4. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "SCALING", datePreset="LAST_7_DAYS", limit=10)`

**Efficiency signals:**
5. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="YESTERDAY", limit=10)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric
6. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="LAST_7_DAYS", limit=10)`

**Hook signals:**
7. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, "HOOK", datePreset="YESTERDAY", limit=10)`

**Note:** If YESTERDAY returns empty or very limited data (common early in the day), fall back to comparing LAST_7_DAYS against LAST_30_DAYS. Note the adjusted window in the briefing header.

---

## Phase 3: Pull Competitor Activity

1. `get_workspace_competitors(workspaceId)` — get tracked competitors
2. For each competitor (parallel): `get_inspo_creatives(brandId, workspaceId, limit=5, sort="NEWEST", launchDate="LAST_7_DAYS")`

If competitor tracking isn't set up, skip this section and note it.

---

## Phase 4: Compute Deltas

Compare yesterday vs. 7-day data to identify what changed:

### Performance Deltas
- **Newly scaling:** Creatives appearing in yesterday's scaling list but not in the 7-day top — they're just starting to gain traction
- **Declining:** Creatives in the 7-day top performers but absent from or dropping in yesterday's data — they're losing steam
- **Spend shifts:** Where budget moved — which creatives gained share, which lost it
- **Hook changes:** Significant thumbstop rate changes — new creatives hooking well, or established ones losing grip

### Competitor Deltas
- **New launches:** Competitor creatives launched in the last 7 days
- **Volume signals:** Competitors launching more/fewer creatives than usual

### What Counts as "Big"
Not everything that changed is worth reporting. Focus on:
- Creatives that shifted from scaling to declining (or vice versa) — a reversal
- Top-spending creatives with notable goalMetric movement — budget at risk
- New creatives that immediately started scaling — a possible winner
- Competitor launches that represent a new approach (not just more of the same)
- Any creative with significant hook rate change — the first signal of fatigue or resonance

If nothing significant changed, say so: "Stable day — no major movements. Current scaling winners are holding." A quiet briefing is better than manufactured urgency.

---

## Phase 5: Output

### Format

Keep it tight. This is for a standup, not a strategy session.

```
# Creative Morning Briefing — [Date]
**Workspace:** [name] | **Window:** Yesterday vs. 7-day trend

## Big Things That Changed
- [Bullet 1 — the single most important delta]
- [Bullet 2 — second most important]
- [Bullet 3 — if warranted, otherwise skip]

## Performance Deltas

| Creative | Metric | Yesterday | 7-Day | Direction |
|----------|--------|-----------|-------|-----------|
| [name]   | goalMetric | [val]     | [val] | ↑ / ↓ / → |

## Scaling Moves
[1-2 sentences: what's gaining budget, what's losing it, and why it matters]

## Competitor Watch
[New launches from tracked competitors. Format, hook approach, what's notable. Skip if nothing new.]

## Suggested Focus for Today
- [Action 1 — specific, grounded in the data above]
- [Action 2 — if warranted]
```

### Rules

- **"Big Things That Changed" is mandatory.** Even if the answer is "nothing." This is the section people read.
- **3 bullets max** in Big Things. If there are more than 3 significant changes, pick the top 3 and move the rest to the sections below.
- **Performance Deltas table** is optional — include it when there are specific numbers worth comparing. Skip if the story is better told in prose.
- **Competitor Watch** is optional — skip if no new launches.
- **Suggested Focus** should be 1-2 actions, not a to-do list. Each action should connect to a specific finding.
- **Total length:** Aim for something that can be read in under 2 minutes.
- If someone wants depth, they run `/performance-analysis`.

---

## Error Handling

- **YESTERDAY returns empty:** Fall back to LAST_7_DAYS vs. LAST_30_DAYS comparison. Note the adjusted window.
- **Competitor tools fail:** Skip Competitor Watch section, note the gap.
- **All queries fail:** Report: "Motion data unavailable this morning. Check your workspace connection."
- **Very few creatives in results:** Note limited data, don't over-interpret. "Low volume day — directional signals only."

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---
name: performance-analysis
description: Analyze creative performance — what's working, what's scaling, what's dying. Multi-metric analysis with demographic breakdown and actionable recommendations.
argument-hint: "[--datePreset LAST_30_DAYS] [--limit 10] [--metric goalMetric]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Agent
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - AskUserQuestion
model: opus
---

# Creative Performance Analysis

Analyze creative performance using the creative-strategist skill methodology — multi-metric landscape, demographic overlay, and creative taxonomy. Produce an actionable report of what's working, what's scaling, and what's dying.

---

## Phase 0: Orient

Before pulling data:

1. **Acknowledge**: "I'll analyze your creative performance to find what's working, scaling, and dying."
2. **Detect complexity**: Is this a quick question ("how's ROAS?") or a full deep dive ("what's working?")? Quick questions get 1-2 tool calls and a direct answer. Full analysis gets the multi-metric sweep.
3. **Ask if ambiguous**: "Quick top-line or full deep dive? Any specific metric or time period you care about?"
4. **Connected workflow**: After analysis, you can create concepts (`/create-concepts`), find iterations (`/find-iterations`), or dive into a specific ad (`/analyze-ad`).

If the user provides clear, specific intent (e.g., "full performance analysis for last 30 days"), skip questions and deliver.

---

## Phase 1: Setup

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- `--datePreset`: Time window for analysis. Default: `LAST_30_DAYS`. Options: TODAY, YESTERDAY, THIS_MONTH, LAST_MONTH, LAST_7_DAYS, LAST_14_DAYS, LAST_30_DAYS, LAST_90_DAYS.
- `--limit`: Max creatives per metric query. Default: `10`.
- `--metric`: Optional focus metric (SPEND, SCALING, HOOK, CPC, CTR_ALL, PURCHASES, PURCHASE_VALUE, or the workspace's goalMetric). If provided, lead the analysis with this metric. If not, use the standard multi-metric approach.

### 1b. Load Settings & Auth

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for org-specific configuration. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - `default_creative_limit`: 10
   - `demographic_focus`: both
   - `primary_metrics` / `secondary_metrics` / `exclude_metrics`: auto-detect
   - `priority_glossary_categories`: use all
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
2. Call `get_auth_context()` to resolve workspaceId (use settings workspace_id as fallback context).
3. If settings contain a `primary_kpi` and no `--metric` was specified, use the primary KPI to lead the analysis.
4. If settings contain `target_demographics`, weight demographic analysis toward those segments.
5. If settings contain `primary_metrics`, ensure those metrics lead the analysis. If `secondary_metrics`, include after primary. If `exclude_metrics`, omit those from all queries and output.
6. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user provided a `--datePreset` argument. Use `default_creative_limit` from settings as the limit unless the user provided a `--limit` argument.

If auth fails, stop and tell the user to check their Motion workspace connection.

### 1c. Load Methodology

Read the creative-strategist skill and `references/performance-metrics.md` for metric definitions and interpretation patterns.

---

## Phase 2: Data Collection

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

1. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset, limit, withAggregatedInsights=true)` — spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

2. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SCALING", datePreset, limit)` — what's gaining/losing allocation
3. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset, limit)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric
4. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="HOOK", datePreset, limit)` — thumbstop rate leaders
5. `get_demographic_breakdown(workspaceId, datePreset)` — age/gender performance
6. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId)` — creative taxonomy categories

If `--metric` is specified, ensure that metric is included and prioritized in the analysis.

---

## Phase 3: Analysis

### 3a. Build Creative-Level View

For each creative appearing across the results, collect:
- Its rank/position in each metric query it appeared in
- Key performance values (spend, goalMetric, hook rate, and other relevant metrics)
- Whether it's scaling, stable, or declining
- **Its campaign and ad set context** — `campaignName`, `campaignIds`, `adsetName`, `adsetIds`

Cross-reference to identify:
- **All-rounders:** Creatives that appear in top results across multiple metrics
- **Specialists:** High on one metric but absent from others (e.g., high HOOK but not in goalMetric top — hooks but doesn't convert)
- **Hidden gems:** Strong goalMetric but low spend — underexploited

### 3a-ii. Map Campaign & Ad Set Structure

This step is critical — **campaign and ad set context changes the meaning of every metric.**

1. **Group creatives by campaign**, then by ad set within each campaign
2. Apply campaign tier classification and structural issue detection from `references/campaign-context.md`

Consult `references/campaign-context.md` for campaign tier naming heuristics, ad set strategy signals, and structural issue patterns.

### 3b. Pattern Extraction

Use glossary values to tag each creative with its taxonomy categories. Then analyze:
- Which categories (format, hook type, asset type, messaging angle) are over/under-represented in top performers?
- Which categories are scaling vs. declining?
- What combinations appear in winners but not losers?
- What hasn't been tried? (categories with zero or minimal coverage)
- **Which campaign tiers favor which creative patterns?** (e.g., UGC dominates testing but studio images dominate scaling — or vice versa)

Consult `references/performance-metrics.md` for metric combination stories.

### 3c. Demographic Analysis

From the demographic breakdown:
- Which age/gender segments drive the best performance?
- Are there underserved segments where creative investment could expand?
- Do certain creatives skew strongly toward one demographic?

### 3d. Apply Brand Context from Settings

If config contains brand guidelines (Brand Voice, Creative Do's/Don'ts, Target Audience):
- Frame recommendations through brand constraints — don't suggest approaches that violate creative don'ts
- Weight audience insights toward the brand's stated target audience
- Use brand voice to inform how insights are framed

If settings contain `priority_glossary_categories`, prioritize those categories in pattern extraction (3b).

### 3e. Apply Insight Quality Bar

Before writing findings, check each insight against `references/insight-quality.md`. Every finding must explain the "why" — what's happening in the viewer's mind — not just state a metric.

---

## Phase 4: Output

Open by reflecting what data you pulled: time window, number of creatives analyzed, any filters applied. Keep it conversational — one sentence, not a formatted log.

### Report Structure

**If You Read Nothing Else**
3-5 bullets. The most actionable findings. Lead with what changed or what's surprising. Every bullet should make the reader want to do something.

**Top Performers**
Creatives with the best combination of goal metric efficiency + meaningful spend. Not just highest efficiency (which could be low-spend noise). Show the creative, its key metrics, **which campaign/ad set it runs in**, and WHY it works — the behavioral insight. Contextualize efficiency against the campaign tier (e.g., below-breakeven on cold prospecting may be acceptable if LTV justifies it; below-breakeven on scaling is a problem).

**Scaling Winners**
Creatives gaining spend allocation with stable or improving efficiency. These are the ones the algorithm is betting on. Note what they have in common. **Flag whether they're scaling in an uncapped environment (strong signal) or a cost-cap environment (inflated signal).**

**Efficiency Standouts**
Strong goalMetric but not yet scaling — hidden gems that deserve more budget. Explain why they might be underexploited. **Note their campaign context — a gem in a cost-cap ad set needs uncapped validation before you declare it a winner.** Recommend the graduation path: which campaign/ad set to move it to next.

**Campaign Structure Issues**
Structural problems in how campaigns and ad sets are organized that work against performance. This section surfaces:
- Testing creatives competing with proven winners inside the same CBO (budget starvation)
- "Top performers" ad sets containing fatigued creatives (budget traps)
- Creatives ready to graduate from Testing → Scaling
- CBO allocation conflicts where budget flows to high-spend losers over low-spend winners
- Cost-cap artifacts inflating efficiency metrics

**Declining Creatives**
Losing share or performance dropping. Don't just flag them — recommend what to do: refresh, pause, test new hooks on the same body, etc. **If a declining creative sits in a "Top performers" ad set, explicitly recommend removal — it's dragging down the ad set.**

**Demographic Sweet Spots**
Where performance concentrates by age/gender. Which segments are strongest, which are underserved, and what that means for creative strategy.

**Recommendations**
3-5 specific next actions. Each recommendation must be:
- Specific enough to act on today
- Grounded in a finding from the analysis
- Framed as "do this because the data shows X"
- **Campaign-aware** — recommendations should specify where creatives should move (e.g., "graduate BRoll TO from Testing 1 to Top performers ad set"), not just "increase budget"

---

## Error Handling

- **Auth fails:** Stop and tell user to check Motion workspace connection
- **One metric query fails:** Note the gap, continue with remaining data
- **All queries fail:** Report the failure, suggest checking the Motion MCP connection
- **Empty results:** Note that no creatives match the criteria — suggest broadening the datePreset or checking spend thresholds
- **Limited data (few creatives):** Adjust analysis depth — don't over-interpret small samples

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---
name: qa-feedback
description: >
  Review a creative asset against brand guidelines, performance patterns, concept standards,
  and strategic framework. Provides structured, actionable feedback with a scorecard.
  Activate when users ask to "review this ad", "QA this creative", "give feedback on",
  "review this asset", "check this against brand guidelines", "creative review",
  "is this ready to launch", or share a creative for review.
argument-hint: "<asset URL, screenshot, or creative ID> [--type video|image|static|carousel] [--brief original brief text]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
model: opus
---

# Creative QA & Feedback

Review a creative asset across 6 dimensions: brand alignment, hook quality, strategic positioning, concept integrity, production quality, and brief adherence. Every piece of feedback connects to data, brand guidelines, or the strategic framework.

---

## Phase 1: Get the Asset

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- **Asset** (`$ARGUMENTS`): The creative to review. Can be:
  - A URL to the ad
  - A screenshot description
  - A creative entity ID from Motion
  - A description of the asset
- **`--type`**: video, image, static, carousel, or unknown. Default: unknown (infer from context).
- **`--brief`**: The original brief this asset was built from. Optional but enables brief adherence check.

If no asset is provided, ask the user what they want reviewed.

### 1b. Load Context

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for brand voice, creative do's/don'ts, target audience. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
2. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/SKILL.md` for methodology.
3. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user specified a date range.
3. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/concept-standards.md` for quality bar.
4. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/insight-quality.md` for insight quality standards.
5. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/evaluation-framework.md` for the 4-Question Evaluation Framework, metric pattern correlations, Ready/Iterate/Rethink call, and multi-persona feedback methodology.

---

## Phase 2: Pull Comparison Data

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

1. `get_auth_context()` — resolve workspace
2. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=5, withAggregatedInsights=true)` — spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

3. `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` — brand guidelines, voice, positioning, do's/don'ts
4. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId)` — creative taxonomy categories
5. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=5)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric for comparison
6. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="HOOK", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=5)` — best hooks for comparison

If the asset is a video with a creative entity ID:
7. `get_creative_transcript(creativeEntityId, creativeOrigin)` — pull the transcript for detailed review

---

## Phase 3: Review Framework

### Step 1: 4-Question Evaluation (Primary Lens)

Before scoring individual dimensions, run the asset through the 4-Question Evaluation Framework from `evaluation-framework.md`. Answer each question in order — failing an earlier question overrides strengths in later ones:

1. **Does this make sense fast?** — Within the first 1-3 seconds, can the viewer understand what this is about?
2. **Will the right person feel like it's for them?** — Does the creative signal who it's for?
3. **Will they believe it?** — Are claims credible and supported, not just stated?
4. **Will they take the intended action?** — Is the next step obvious and compelling?

Use the metric pattern correlations from `evaluation-framework.md` to ground each answer in data when performance data is available from the comparison pull (Phase 2). If no performance data exists, evaluate based on creative execution alone and say so.

This establishes the strategic foundation. The detailed scoring in Step 2 adds granularity.

### Step 2: Detailed Scoring (6 Dimensions)

Evaluate the asset across 6 dimensions:

### Dimension 1: Brand Alignment (Pass / Needs Work / Fail)

- Does the copy match brand voice? (Check against `get_workspace_brand` + settings)
- Does messaging align with brand positioning?
- Are Creative Don'ts violated? **These are hard fails.**
- Are Creative Do's incorporated where natural?
- Is the visual style consistent with the brand?

### Dimension 2: Hook Quality (Pass / Needs Work / Fail)

- Does the first 3 seconds (video) or headline (static) create tension, curiosity, or recognition?
- Is it direct, pressured, specific? (Not generic or vague)
- Would this stop a scroll? Compare against account's top-performing hooks.
- Does the hook match the messaging angle's core truth?
- Classify the hook by tactic and trigger — is the right combination for this awareness stage?

### Dimension 3: Strategic Positioning (Pass / Needs Work / Fail)

Using the Creative Strategy Engine:
- Does this asset target a clear pain × persona intersection?
- What awareness stage is it aimed at? Is the approach appropriate for that stage?
- Does the messaging angle come through clearly?
- Is there a specific human tension driving the creative, or is it generic?

### Dimension 4: Concept Integrity (Pass / Needs Work / Fail)

Against Concept Standards:
- **Pain point specificity**: Built around a specific lived experience?
- **Strategic coherence**: Audience, message, format, and hook all align?
- **Differentiation**: Could a competitor use this without modification?
- **Persuasive sharpness**: Does it make the viewer feel personally implicated?

### Dimension 5: Production Quality (Pass / Needs Work / Fail)

- **Video**: Pacing, cuts, text overlay readability, audio quality, hook timing
- **Static**: Layout, typography hierarchy, visual clarity, CTA visibility
- **Both**: Professional enough for paid media?

### Dimension 6: Brief Adherence (Pass / Needs Work / Fail / N/A)

Only if `--brief` was provided:
- Does the asset match the brief's concept overview?
- Is the hook the one specified in the brief?
- Does the visual approach match?
- Are deliverable specs met (format, duration, dimensions)?

If no brief provided, mark as N/A.

### Step 3: Make the Call

Synthesize the 4-Question evaluation and the 6-dimension scoring into a single call using the Ready / Iterate / Rethink framework from `evaluation-framework.md`:

- **Ready** — The creative can run as-is. Any notes are polish, not blockers. Lead with what's strong.
- **Iterate** — There's a workable foundation but specific problems need fixing. Name what to fix in priority order — specific enough that the team can act without a follow-up conversation.
- **Rethink** — Something fundamental isn't working. Surface fixes won't save it. Name exactly what's broken and why it can't be patched.

The difference between Iterate and Rethink: Iterate means you can fix what's there. Rethink means the angle, the brief, or the approach needs to change — not just the execution. Don't soften Rethink to avoid disagreement.

---

## Phase 4: Output

### Overall Assessment

Map the call from Step 3 directly:
- **Ready** maps to **Ready to Launch**
- **Iterate** maps to **Needs Revisions**
- **Rethink** maps to **Rethink Approach**

### Score Card

| Dimension | Rating | Key Finding |
|---|---|---|
| Brand Alignment | Pass/Needs Work/Fail | [One-line summary] |
| Hook Quality | Pass/Needs Work/Fail | [One-line summary] |
| Strategic Positioning | Pass/Needs Work/Fail | [One-line summary] |
| Concept Integrity | Pass/Needs Work/Fail | [One-line summary] |
| Production Quality | Pass/Needs Work/Fail | [One-line summary] |
| Brief Adherence | Pass/Needs Work/Fail/N/A | [One-line summary] |

### Detailed Feedback

**Prioritization:** Lead with what will hurt performance most. Conversion blockers first (Q4). Attention failures second (Q1). Trust gaps third (Q3). Craft issues the viewer wouldn't notice in a feed scroll don't belong next to real problems. The order of feedback IS the prioritization — what leads is what the team should do first.

For each dimension rated "Needs Work" or "Fail":
- What specifically needs to change
- Why it matters (connect to performance data or brand guidelines)
- Concrete suggestion for how to fix it

**Keep feedback actionable.** "The opening line is unclear — try leading with the problem instead of the product" is actionable. "The hook needs work" is not. Every piece of feedback should tell the team what to change, not just what's wrong.

### Strengths

What's working well — be specific. If the hook is strong, say why. If the visual approach is fresh, explain what makes it different.

### Recommended Next Steps

1-3 specific, prioritized actions. Frame as "do this to improve [metric]" not just "fix this."

---

## Key Principles

- Be specific and constructive, not vague or harsh
- Connect every piece of feedback to data, brand guidelines, or the strategic framework
- A "Fail" requires a clear fix suggestion
- Compare against what's working in the account (top performers) not against abstract ideals
- If the asset is strong, say so clearly — don't find problems for thoroughness' sake
- Brand Don'ts violations are always hard fails regardless of creative quality

---

## Multi-Persona Feedback (Optional Mode)

If the user requests multi-persona review, or if stakeholders have conflicting views about a creative, use the multi-persona approach from `evaluation-framework.md`.

Each persona evaluates the creative against their stated priorities — not the same observations reworded in a different tone. Where personas agree, the signal is strong. Where they disagree, there's a tradeoff the team needs to decide on.

If the user asks for multi-persona feedback without defining personas, ask them to describe 2-4 personas with their priorities and concerns before proceeding.

---

## Error Handling

- **Brand guidelines unavailable**: Evaluate against general direct-response principles, note the gap.
- **Transcript fails for video**: Evaluate hook quality from description/URL only, note reduced depth.
- **Performance data sparse**: Compare against general best practices.
- **Asset is ambiguous**: Ask clarifying questions before reviewing.

## Degraded Mode

If any tool call fails:
- Note the gap explicitly
- Never fabricate comparisons
- Proceed with available data
- A review with clear caveats > no review

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---
name: ugc-scripts
description: >
  Write authentic UGC (user-generated content) ad scripts that sound like real people
  sharing real experiences. Produces talking points — not word-for-word scripts — with
  a scripted hook and soft CTA. Grounded in Motion workspace data for hooks that convert.
  Activate when users ask for "UGC script", "creator script", "influencer brief",
  "talking points for a creator", "authentic ad script", or need scripts for
  creator-style paid social ads.
argument-hint: "[hook or concept] [product] [--creator-type any] [--duration 30s]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown"
model: opus
---

# UGC Script Writer

Create authentic creator-style scripts for paid social ads. The core test: **would a real person actually say this out loud?**

Scripts are talking points with a scripted hook — not teleprompter copy. The creator should rephrase everything in their own words except the opening line.

---

## Phase 1: Discovery

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- **Hook or concept** (`$ARGUMENTS`): The opening line, concept direction, or product angle. Can be a specific hook from `/write-hooks` or a general direction.
- **Product**: What's being sold. If not in args, ask.
- **`--creator-type`**: micro-influencer, customer-testimonial, expert, founder, or any. Default: any.
- **`--duration`**: Target length. Default: 30s (75-100 words). Options: 15s, 30s, 45s, 60s.

If hook and product aren't provided, ask before proceeding.

### 1b. Load Context

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for brand voice, creative do's/don'ts, target demographics, production constraints. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
   - `production_capabilities`: all formats
2. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/SKILL.md` for methodology.
3. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/brief-template.md` for output structure reference.
4. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user specified a date range.

### 1c. Pull Performance Data

**The SPEND call must come first** (it returns goalMetric and spendThreshold). Then dispatch remaining calls in parallel.

1. `get_auth_context()` — resolve workspace
2. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10, withAggregatedInsights=true)` — spend leaders + account-level aggregates

→ Extract `goalMetric` and `spendThreshold` from the response. Use goalMetric for all efficiency-sorted calls.

3. `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` — brand voice, positioning, creative constraints
4. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="HOOK", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — top-performing hooks
5. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType=goalMetric, datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — efficiency leaders by workspace goal metric
6. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId)` — taxonomy (especially UGC-related categories)
7. `get_demographic_breakdown(workspaceId)` — who's responding

Then pull transcripts from the top 3-5 UGC-style performers (identify from glossary tags or visual format):
8. `get_creative_transcript(creativeEntityId, creativeOrigin)` — see what hooks and pacing work

---

## Phase 2: Emotional Mapping

Before writing, plan how the viewer moves from attention through to action.

### 2a. Define the Emotional Arc

Every UGC script follows this arc:

```
ATTENTION (0-3s) → PROBLEM (3-8s) → SOLUTION (8-15s) → PROOF (15-22s) → CTA (22-30s)
```

For each beat:
- **Attention**: The hook. This IS scripted — exact words matter. What stops the scroll?
- **Problem**: Name the specific pain or frustration. Mirror their internal monologue.
- **Solution**: Introduce the product naturally. NOT a pitch — a discovery or recommendation.
- **Proof**: Specific detail that makes it believable. One feature, one result, one moment.
- **CTA**: Soft invitation. NOT "buy now." More like "try it for yourself" or "link's in my bio."

### 2b. Identify the Single Key Message

UGC fails when it tries to say too much. Choose ONE:
- One pain point
- One key benefit
- One surprising feature
- One transformation

Everything in the script serves this one message.

### 2c. Gather Authenticity Details

From brand context and performance data, collect:
- Specific product features (NOT marketing claims — real functional details)
- Social proof snippets (review quotes, numbers, real results)
- Sensory details that make the product tangible ("leaf blower outside, gone" > "great noise canceling")

---

## Phase 3: Build the Script

### Creator Profile

Before writing, define who's speaking:

- **Demographics**: Age range, gender, look/feel
- **Persona match**: Which pain × persona intersection from the Creative Strategy Engine does this creator represent? The creator should BE the persona, not act as one.
- **Energy/vibe**: How they come across on camera (e.g., "casual and direct, mid-conversation energy, not performative")
- **Credibility signal**: What makes them believable — actual customer, expertise, lifestyle match
- **Casting note**: 1-2 sentences a casting director could use

### Script Structure

```
HOOK (0:00-0:03): "[EXACT SCRIPTED WORDS]"
— This is the one thing that's verbatim. Every other beat is talking points.

PROBLEM/SETUP (0:03-0:08):
Talking point: [What the creator should communicate — in their own words]
Tone: [How they should sound — frustrated, amused, confessional]

SOLUTION/DISCOVERY (0:08-0:15):
Talking point: [How they discovered or started using the product]
Tone: [Genuine surprise, casual recommendation, matter-of-fact]
Show: [What they do on camera — hold product, demonstrate, react]

PROOF/DETAIL (0:15-0:22):
Talking point: [One specific detail that makes it real]
Tone: [Honest, specific — not hyperbolic]
Optional: [Quote a review, show a before/after, mention a timeframe]

CTA (0:22-0:30):
Talking point: [Soft invitation — NOT a hard sell]
Examples: "Try it for yourself" / "Link's in my bio" / "I'm telling everyone about this"
```

### Word Count Guidelines

| Duration | Word Count | Beats |
|---|---|---|
| 15s | 35-50 words | Hook + Problem + Quick CTA |
| 30s | 75-100 words | Full arc |
| 45s | 100-125 words | Full arc with extended proof |
| 60s | 125-150 words | Full arc with storytelling |

### The Read-Aloud Test

Read the entire script out loud. If ANY line:
- Sounds like it was written by a brand → rewrite it
- Uses words like "revolutionary", "game-changing", "innovative" → delete them
- Feels like reading a teleprompter → make it conversational
- Includes more than 2 product features → cut to 1

### Authenticity Guidelines

**Setting**: Where to film — must match persona's life context
- Customer testimonial: their home, car, bathroom, kitchen
- Expert: office, studio, relevant professional setting
- Founder: behind-the-scenes, warehouse, office

**Do's:**
- Pause and think before key points (real people don't have instant answers)
- Show the actual product in use, not a beauty shot
- Include one imperfect moment (stumble, laugh, aside)
- Reference a specific moment or experience, not a general benefit
- Use "I" language: "I noticed..." "For me..." "What I like..."

**Don'ts:**
- Don't read from a teleprompter (talking points, not scripts)
- Don't use marketing language ("clinically proven", "dermatologist recommended")
- Don't start with "Hey guys!" (oversaturated, instantly signals ad)
- Don't pack multiple features (one message per script)
- Don't end with aggressive urgency ("Buy NOW before it's GONE!")

### Brand Safety Guardrails

From workspace brand + settings:
- Claims that CANNOT be made (legal/compliance)
- Competitor mentions: allowed or not
- Required disclosures (FTC, #ad, etc.)
- Brand elements that must appear (logo, product shot, URL)

---

## Quality Gate

Before presenting scripts, verify each against these tests: Does the hook pass the 5-test quality bar (genuine cognitive friction, strong trigger, complete thought, authentic voice, personal stakes)? Do the talking points sound like a real person sharing an experience, not a scripted ad? Is the CTA soft and natural, not salesy? Revise any script that fails.

---

## Phase 4: Output

### Pre-Script Context

3-5 bullets showing:
- What performance insight shaped the talking points
- Which persona the creator maps to
- What reference creatives informed the hook
- What brand constraints shaped the guardrails

### The Script

Present the full script structure with creator profile, talking points per beat, and authenticity guidelines.

### Deliverables Section

- Number of takes expected (recommend 3-5 for variety)
- Aspect ratios needed
- Audio requirements (clean audio, no background music unless specified)
- Raw footage requirements

### Success Metrics

- **Primary**: HOOK rate — UGC lives or dies by the first 3 seconds
- **Secondary**: goalMetric (workspace efficiency metric)
- **Evaluation window**: After sufficient spend (reference workspace's spendThreshold)
- **Diagnostic**:
  - HOOK is low → the opening line isn't working. Test a different hook.
  - HOOK is high but CPA is poor → talking points need refinement. The hook promises something the body doesn't deliver.

### Close

"Want me to write variations with different hooks? Or turn this into a full production brief with `/build-brief`?"

---

## Common Mistakes to Catch

- **Feature dumping**: More than 2 features in a 30s script → cut to 1
- **Fake enthusiasm**: "OH MY GOD you guys" without substance → replace with specific detail
- **Missing the hook's promise**: Hook says one thing, body talks about something else → realign
- **Corporate tone**: Any sentence that sounds like a press release → rewrite in first person
- **No specific proof**: Generic "it works so well" → replace with "after 2 weeks, [specific result]"
- **Hard sell CTA**: "Use code X for 20% off!" → soften to "honestly just try it"

---

## Error Handling

Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/error-handling.md` for degraded mode and error handling guidance.

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---
name: weekly-performance
description: >
  Generate a week-over-week creative performance slide deck comparing the last 7 days
  to the previous 7 days. Detects the week type (breakout, fatigue, shift, steady, launch),
  then builds a narrative arc around the biggest creative insight. Outputs a self-contained
  HTML slide deck. Activate when users ask for "weekly report", "weekly performance",
  "week over week", "WoW analysis", "weekly creative report", "performance deck",
  "weekly slide deck", or "what changed this week".
argument-hint: "[--output html|notion|slack|pdf|auto]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Agent
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_demographic_breakdown"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_summary"
  - AskUserQuestion
model: opus
---

# Weekly Performance Slide Deck

Generate a week-over-week creative performance analysis as a presentation-ready slide deck. The deck tells a story — it's not a data dump.

---

## Phase 0: Orient

1. **Acknowledge**: "Building your week-over-week creative performance deck."
2. **Ask format**: "HTML slide deck, Notion, or Slack? Anything specific you want highlighted?"
3. **Connected workflow**: After the deck, you can dive into specific ads (`/analyze-ad`), find iterations on fatiguing creatives (`/find-iterations`), or generate concepts to fill gaps (`/create-concepts`).

If the user already specified the format, skip the question and build.

---

## Phase 1: Setup

### 1a. Parse Arguments

- **`--output`**: Where to deliver the report. Default: `auto` (ask the user).
  - `html` — Self-contained HTML with CSS scroll-snap
  - `notion` — Structured document with headings, tables, callout blocks
  - `slack` — Concise highlights post (max 300 words)
  - `pdf` — Print-optimized HTML with page breaks
  - `auto` — Ask the user before building

### 1b. Load Context

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for org-specific config. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `demographic_focus`: both
   - `primary_metrics` / `secondary_metrics` / `exclude_metrics`: auto-detect
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
2. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/SKILL.md` for methodology.
3. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/performance-metrics.md` for metric definitions.
4. If settings contain `primary_metrics`, ensure those metrics lead the WoW analysis. If `exclude_metrics`, omit from all comparisons.

### 1c. Resolve Date Windows

Calculate two non-overlapping 7-day windows ending **yesterday** (never include today — partial data distorts metrics):
- **This week**: start = 8 days ago, end = yesterday
- **Last week**: start = 15 days ago, end = 9 days ago

Use YYYY-MM-DD format.

---

## Phase 2: Data Collection

### 2a. Prerequisites (Strict Sequence)

Call `get_auth_context()` → resolve workspaceId.

The first `get_creative_insights` response includes `goalMetric` (the workspace's preferred efficiency metric) and `spendThreshold` (minimum spend for statistical significance). Extract both. The goalMetric is the primary KPI for the entire deck.

Defaults if unavailable: settings `primary_kpi` for metric, $100 for threshold.

### 2b. Parallel Data Pulls

Once you have workspaceId and goalMetric, dispatch all in parallel:

1. **Brand context**: `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` — brand voice, creative constraints
2. **This week's creatives**: `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset="CUSTOM", startDate="{this_week_start}", endDate="{this_week_end}", limit=20, withAggregatedInsights=true)`
3. **Last week's creatives**: `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="SPEND", datePreset="CUSTOM", startDate="{last_week_start}", endDate="{last_week_end}", limit=20, withAggregatedInsights=true)`
4. **Demographics**: `get_demographic_breakdown(workspaceId, datePreset="LAST_14_DAYS")` — 14-day aggregate (tool doesn't support custom ranges). Note this limitation.
5. **Glossary taxonomy**: `get_glossary_values(workspaceId, includeCreativeIds=true)`

### 2c. After Insights Return

Call `get_creative_summary` for the top 10 creatives by spend (this week) to get verbatim hooks and headlines. Use `spokenHook` for video, `headline` for static. Prefer `spokenHook` > `textOverlayHook` > `headline`.

### 2d. Derive Trends

Compare `aggregatedInsights` from both weeks for account-level WoW deltas: spend, goalMetric, CTR, CPA, thumbstop, impressions.

### 2e. Identify Launches

From this week's creatives, filter any with `launchDate` within the current week window. These are newly launched tests.

### 2f. Validate Before Proceeding

- If either pull returns fewer than 5 creatives above the spend threshold, flag the thin dataset and adjust scope.
- If the preferred metric has no usable values, fall back to spend-ranked order and state that explicitly.

---

## Phase 3: Detect the Week Type

Before building slides, classify the week. This determines the narrative arc. Evaluate in order, pick the first that fits:

**Breakout** — A creative that wasn't in last week's top 20 appeared in this week's top 10 AND outperforms account averages on goalMetric. Story: what's new and why it's working.

**Fatigue** — 3+ of last week's top 10 dropped out or declined >20% on goalMetric, AND nothing new replaced them at comparable efficiency. Story: what's dying and what needs to replace it.

**Shift** — The composition of the top 20 changed meaningfully: a different format, messaging angle, or demographic segment now dominates. Story: the direction change.

**Launch** — 5+ new creatives (launched within current week) appear with meaningful spend. Story: early reads on fresh creative.

**Steady** — None of the above. Story: the hidden signal everyone else would miss — the quiet riser, the subtle pattern, or the fatigue that hasn't hit yet.

---

## Phase 4: Build the Analysis

### 4a. Creative-Level Diff

For every creative in either week's top 20:
- Present in last week's top 20? This week's? Both? New? Dropped?
- Delta on: spend, goalMetric, CTR, thumbstop (if video)
- Verbatim hook/headline from `get_creative_summary`
- Glossary tags — how does its profile compare to the rest of the top 20?

### 4b. Pattern Extraction

Across both weeks' top performers:
- Tag combinations over-represented this week vs last
- What disappeared from the top 20?
- Multi-attribute clusters in winners (e.g., UGC + problem-first hook + testimonial)?
- What's absent from top performers that exists in the portfolio? (untested directions)

### 4c. Behavioral Interpretation

Every finding must answer "so what?" — translate metrics into viewer behavior:

| Signal | What It Means |
|---|---|
| High thumbstop + high hold rate | Opening promises and delivers. Viewers feel rewarded. |
| High thumbstop + low hold rate | Hook grabs but middle doesn't pay off. Viewers feel baited. |
| High CTR + low conversion | Ad sells the click but landing page doesn't close. |
| Spend increasing | Algorithm found evidence it works. Winning auctions. |
| Spend decreasing | Creative exhausting its audience or losing auctions. |
| High goalMetric + low spend | Algorithm found a pocket that works but can't scale it. |
| High spend + declining goalMetric | Budget leak. More urgent than any low-spend underperformer. |

Lead with the human reaction, support with the number.

### 4d. Demographic Layer

From 14-day aggregate: which segments drive spend and efficiency? Flag segments with >15% spend share or >20% goalMetric deviation. Note the 14-day limitation.

### 4e. Apply Brand Context

Frame everything through brand context:
- Write slide headlines in brand voice
- Filter recommendations against creative constraints
- If a winning pattern conflicts with brand guidelines, flag the tension

---

## Phase 5: Build the Slide Deck

Output as self-contained HTML. Each slide is a full-viewport section with CSS scroll-snap.

### Design Principles

- **The creative IS the slide.** Ads shown large (40-50% of slide area). Use `creativeUrl` as image/video source.
- **One insight per slide.** If you need more than 20 words of body text, the slide is doing too much.
- **Metrics are badges, not headlines.** Small contextual labels showing WoW delta.
- **Quote actual hooks/headlines.** Large type near the creative card.
- **Color-code direction.** Green for improvement, red for decline, neutral for flat.
- **Speaker notes.** Collapsible footer bar, 2-3 sentences with the behavioral "why."

### Slide Arc

**Slide 1: This Week**
Account-level WoW snapshot. Grounds the entire deck.
- Brand name, date range, week type as subtitle
- WoW deltas: total spend, impressions, goalMetric, CPA, CTR, thumbstop
- Color-coded arrows
- One framing sentence
- Week type framing line:
  - Breakout: "A new creative broke into the top 5"
  - Fatigue: "Multiple top performers are declining"
  - Shift: "The creative mix changed meaningfully"
  - Launch: "[N] new creatives entered the dataset"
  - Steady: "Stable surface, but there's a signal underneath"

**Slides 2-3: Winners & Losers** (1-2 slides)
The creatives driving the week's story. Per creative (2-4 per slide):
- Actual hook/headline in large type
- One metric badge: the WoW delta
- One line: what the creative does to the viewer

Feature selection by week type:
- Breakout: new risers vs what they displaced
- Fatigue: declining creatives, what originally made them work
- Shift: old vs new top performers
- Launch: highest-spend new creatives by signal strength
- Steady: hidden gem vs "safe" top performers

**Slide (conditional): Launches**
Include if 1+ creatives launched this week. Skip otherwise.
- Each launched creative: thumbnail, hook text, early metrics
- Label all metrics as "early reads"
- Group: promising, neutral, concerning

**Slide: Patterns**
One slide connecting evidence into a creative thesis.
- Not: "Hook Tactic: Problem-First increased 34%"
- Instead: "The audience is responding to ads that lead with a flaw"
- Name multi-attribute recipes if emerging
- Include demographic signal if relevant

**Slide: What's Next**
Always the final slide. 2-3 specific creative directions for next week.
Each must:
- Name format, hook approach, messaging angle
- Trace back to a finding from earlier slides
- Be specific enough to brief
- Not: "Test more UGC"
- Instead: "Shoot 2-3 confessional UGC pieces where the creator admits a problem with the product before explaining why they kept it"

### Conditional Adjustments

- Both Winners & Losers show same pattern → collapse to 1 slide
- Patterns has no clear thesis → replace with "What to Watch"
- Demographics show no meaningful deviation → don't force demographic angle
- Launches has 5+ creatives → expand to 2 slides
- **Maximum 6 slides.** If you need more, you're saying too much.

---

## Phase 6: Output

### Delivery

If `--output` is `auto`, ask: "Where would you like this report? I can build it as a slide deck, Notion page, Slack post, or shareable link."

### Response

Brief intro (1-2 sentences: the week type and biggest insight), then present the artifact.

### Follow-Up

Tied to week type:
- Breakout: "Want me to build concepts that extend this pattern?"
- Fatigue: "Want me to generate fresh directions to fill the gap?"
- Shift: "Want me to dig into what's driving the shift?"
- Launch: "Want me to tear down the strongest new launch?"
- Steady: "Want me to explore that hidden signal further?"

---

## Constraints

- Never fabricate creative IDs, metric values, or hook text
- Never include creatives below spend threshold unless they're hidden gems
- Never make budget allocation, audience targeting, or campaign structure recommendations — this is a creative strategy deck, not a media plan
- Never blend 7-day creative data with 14-day demographic data without flagging
- Never use tables as primary slide content
- If data is thin, say so plainly
- Use goalMetric consistently — never default to ROAS unless that IS the goalMetric

## Degraded Mode

If any tool call fails:
- Note the gap explicitly
- Never fabricate performance data
- If get_creative_insights fails entirely, stop and report
- If demographics or glossary fail, proceed with creative-level analysis only
- Partial analysis with clear caveats > fabricated complete one

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---
name: write-hooks
description: >
  Generate psychologically-driven hooks for paid social ads. Uses Schwartz's 5 awareness
  stages and 8 psychological triggers, grounded in the workspace's actual top-performing
  hooks from Motion. Activate when users ask to "write hooks", "generate hooks",
  "hook ideas", "scroll-stopping openings", "attention grabbers", or need opening lines
  for ads. Pairs with write-hooks/references for tactic and template libraries.
argument-hint: "[product] [pain/desire] [persona] [--stage problem-aware] [--format video] [--count 10]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_auth_context"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_workspace_brand"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_insights"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_creative_transcript"
  - "mcp__ruimotion__get_glossary_values"
  - AskUserQuestion
model: opus
---

# Hook Writing Engine

Generate psychologically-driven hooks that capture attention in the first 1-3 seconds of paid social ads. Every hook is grounded in workspace performance data from Motion.

## Phase 0: Orient

1. **Acknowledge**: "I'll generate hooks grounded in what's actually converting in your account."
2. **Ask if missing**: "Product, target persona, and pain point? Or should I pull these from your workspace data?" If any required input is ambiguous, ask — don't assume.
3. **Important distinction**: Hooks that stop the scroll and hooks that convert are often different. After generating, note which hooks optimize for attention vs. which optimize for action.
4. **Connected workflow**: After hooks, you can brief the full ad (`/build-brief`) or analyze how existing hooks perform (`/analyze-ad`).

If the user provided product, persona, and pain point clearly, skip questions.

## Core Principle

A hook is the tactical expression of a messaging angle at a specific awareness stage. Before writing hooks, understand what the audience already knows and feels.

---

## Hook Sources

Pain points are the most reliable hook source. Start here before trying other angles. See `references/hook-sources.md` for the full breakdown.

6 categories of pain-based hook material:
1. **Emotional pain points** (start here) — what keeps them stuck, worried, or frustrated
2. **Daily annoyances** — small friction the audience lives with every day
3. **Embarrassing habits** — what they do but don't talk about
4. **Silent frustrations** — what they tolerate because they think it's just normal
5. **Protective beliefs** — what they tell themselves to avoid having to change
6. **Self-awareness moments** — the truth they already half-know but haven't admitted

When generating a set of hooks, mine at least 2-3 different source categories to ensure emotional variety.

---

## Phase 1: Gather Inputs

### 1a. Parse Arguments

Extract from `$ARGUMENTS`:
- **Product**: What does it do?
- **Pain or Desire**: What specific need does it address?
- **Persona**: Who are you targeting? (life context, not just demographics)
- **`--stage`**: Awareness stage (unaware, problem-aware, solution-aware, product-aware, most-aware). Default: generate across all stages.
- **`--format`**: Video or static. Default: video.
- **`--count`**: How many hooks. Default: 10.

If any required input is missing, ask the user before proceeding.

### 1b. Load Context

1. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/motion-creative.config.md` for brand guidelines, primary KPI, target demographics. If the file does not exist, use these defaults and suggest the user run `/customize`:
   - `primary_kpi`: use goalMetric from first `get_creative_insights` response
   - `default_date_preset`: LAST_30_DAYS
   - Brand guidelines: pull from `get_workspace_brand`
2. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/SKILL.md` for methodology.
3. Use `default_date_preset` from settings as the datePreset for all calls unless the user specified a date range.
3. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/hook-tactics.md` for the 35+ tactic library.
4. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/hook-voice-patterns.md` for proven template clusters.
5. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/hook-sources.md` for pain-based hook material. Pain points are the most reliable hook source — start here before trying other angles.
6. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/hook-eval-judge.md` for the 5-test quality bar and calibrated examples.

### 1c. Pull Performance Data (Parallel)

Dispatch all in parallel:
1. `get_auth_context()` — resolve workspace
2. `get_workspace_brand(workspaceId)` — brand voice, positioning, creative do's/don'ts
3. `get_creative_insights(workspaceId, insightType="HOOK", datePreset="LAST_30_DAYS", limit=10)` — top hooks in the account
4. `get_glossary_values(workspaceId, includeCreativeIds=true)` — hook taxonomy tags

Then for the top 3-5 video creatives from hook results:
5. `get_creative_transcript(creativeEntityId, creativeOrigin)` — extract the actual hooks word-for-word

---

## Phase 2: Analyze What's Working

Before generating new hooks, understand the workspace's proven patterns:

### 2a. Extract Existing Hooks
From transcripts, pull the first 1-3 seconds of each top performer. Identify:
- What psychological trigger does each use?
- What awareness stage does each target?
- What makes each hook specific (names a moment, uses a number, calls out an identity)?

### 2b. Map Taxonomy Patterns
From glossary values, check which hook-related categories exist:
- Which hook tactics are over-represented in top performers?
- Which are absent (untested opportunities)?
- What messaging angles pair with the best hooks?

### 2c. Identify Brand Constraints
From workspace brand + settings:
- What tone must hooks match?
- What claims are off-limits (Creative Don'ts)?
- What language or framing does the brand avoid?

---

## Phase 3: Generate Hooks

### Awareness Stages & Psychological Triggers

Reference the 5 Awareness Stages and 8 Psychological Triggers from `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../concept-engine/references/creative-strategy-engine.md`. Each awareness stage demands a different hook strategy; each hook leverages one or two psychological triggers. The strongest hooks combine two triggers (e.g., Identity Call-Out + Pain Agitation).

### Generation Rules

For each hook:
1. **Select awareness stage** (from args or cycle through all 5)
2. **Select 1-2 psychological triggers** (vary across the set)
3. **Apply a specific tactic** from `references/hook-tactics.md`
4. **Consider voice patterns** from `references/hook-voice-patterns.md` for natural phrasing
5. **Ground in data** — reference what's working in the account if relevant
6. **Check against brand constraints** — no violations of Creative Don'ts

### Hook Quality Standards

Strong hooks:
- Mirror the reader's voice — sounds like something they'd think or say
- Include specific details (numbers, moments, sensory details)
- Lead with pain or curiosity, never with the product
- Feel personally targeted, not broadcast
- Create tension that demands resolution

Weak hooks (never generate these):
- "Introducing..." or "Discover..." openings
- Corporate or marketing language
- Generic category claims ("The best X for Y")
- Product-first messaging at early awareness stages
- Hooks that could apply to any competitor's product

### Common Hook Mistakes

**Describing instead of hitting.** Feature statements, product claims, and benefit summaries are not hooks. Nobody stops scrolling for facts. If the line is about the product rather than the viewer's life, it's a description, not a hook.

**Being too generic.** If every competitor in the category could run the same line, it's not a hook. Hooks should feel like they're talking to one specific person in one specific situation.

**Telegraphing that it's an ad.** "Introducing," "discover," "learn how," "have you tried" — these phrases sound like ads and trigger the urge to skip. Hooks should sound like something a real person might think or say.

**Curiosity without stakes.** Teaser-style hooks that promise something surprising without explaining why it matters to the viewer are just noise. The viewer needs to feel why this is relevant to them.

**Benefits without tension.** The tension — the gap between where the viewer is now and where they want to be — is what makes people stop. Benefits alone describe the destination; tension makes the viewer feel the distance from where they currently are.

**Not hitting a pain point.** If the hook doesn't connect to something the viewer is actually struggling with, frustrated by, or worried about, it has no grip. Pain points are the most reliable way to make someone feel seen.

### Video vs. Static

**Video hooks** (first 3 seconds spoken):
- Conversational. Would sound natural said to a friend.
- Build into a narrative. The hook is a door, not a destination.
- Read it aloud — if it sounds scripted, rewrite it.

**Static hooks** (headline):
- 5-8 words max. Scannable instantly.
- Complete thought on its own — no context needed.
- Creates visual tension with the image.

### Refining Existing Hooks

When the user provides existing hooks to improve or iterate on:

1. **Identify what's working** before changing anything — don't lose strong elements
2. **Identify what the user wants**: variations (same angle, different tactic), improvements (same tactic, sharper execution), or iterations (evolve the concept)
3. **Lead with the improved version**. Note what changed in one line. Don't include the original unless asked.

---

## Phase 4: Output

### Format

Present hooks organized by awareness stage, with the psychological trigger labeled:

```
## [Awareness Stage]

1. "[Hook text]"
   Trigger: [Primary trigger] + [Secondary trigger]
   Tactic: [From hook-tactics library]
   Psychological trigger: [Name the specific trigger mechanism]
   Why: [One sentence — what makes this stop the scroll for this audience]

2. "[Hook text]"
   ...
```

### Video Hook Components

When `--format video`, label each hook with three distinct layers:

- **Spoken**: The first words said on camera. Must work even without visuals.
- **Visual**: What happens in the first frame — the action, scene, or visual element that stops the scroll before a word is spoken.
- **Text overlay**: On-screen text that appears over the visual. Can reinforce the spoken hook, add a second layer, or carry the hook entirely for silent viewers.

The three should work together — not repeat each other. Label each component clearly in the output.

### Grounding Note

Open with 2-3 sentences about what you found in the workspace's top hooks — what patterns are proven, what's missing. This grounds the output in data, not generic advice.

### Close

End with: "Want me to develop any of these into full ad concepts? Run `/create-concepts` with the hooks you like, or I can build a brief with `/build-brief`."

---

## Phase 5: Self-Eval Loop

Before returning hooks to the user, evaluate every hook against the quality bar in `references/hook-eval-judge.md`.

1. **Run the 5-test check** on each hook: genuine cognitive friction, strong psychological trigger, complete thought, authentic voice, personal stakes. A hook must pass all 5 tests.
2. **Discard failures.** Do not try to fix a failing hook — generate a replacement from a different tactic and source.
3. **Generate replacements** until you hit the requested `--count` with all-passing hooks.
4. **Be ruthless.** About 35% of hooks typically pass this bar. If the first draft yields 10 hooks, expect to keep 3-4 and replace the rest.

### Output per hook after self-eval:

Each hook in the final output should include:
- Hook text
- Tactic used
- Psychological trigger
- One sentence on why it stops the scroll

Cross-reference the "What ALWAYS Fails" list and calibrated examples in `references/hook-eval-judge.md`. If a hook matches any anti-pattern, discard it immediately.

---

## Error Handling

Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../creative-strategist/references/error-handling.md` for degraded mode and error handling guidance.

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