{"id":20647,"plugin_id":"plugins_6aa5c14ce164819185474f73c890b680","kind":"skill","collection_source":null,"comparison_source":null,"observed_at":"2026-09-30T23:16:24.393Z","digest":"7921943d0af18f930e76f29fac4310b4251e17ae290745143e8cec820b562f5c","against":null,"payload":{"description":"Generate 3 promise options that create anticipation for what's to come. Invoke with /cw-promise or /cw-promise [topic/context].","included_files":[],"name":"cw-promise","skill_md_contents":"---\nname: cw-promise\ndescription: Generate 3 promise options that create anticipation for what's to come. Invoke with /cw-promise or /cw-promise [topic/context].\n---\n\n# Promise\n\n## Purpose\n\nGenerate 3 promise options that create anticipation and launch the reader into the rest of the piece.\n\nRead `../../references/context-contract.md` and resolve available audience context, including optional `AUDIENCE.md` or a named shared guide. The explicit assignment audience takes precedence; missing audience context does not block the task.\n\n## Invocation\n\n- `/cw-promise [context]` — Generate promises for the specified topic/piece\n- `/cw-promise` — System asks \"What's the piece about?\" then generates options\n\n## What Makes a Promise Work\n\nA promise creates anticipation and momentum. It should achieve several of these:\n\n### Core Functions\n- **Creates appetite** — Makes readers hungry for what you're about to reveal\n- **Establishes stakes** — Shows what's at risk or what's possible\n- **Sets expectations** — Helps readers know what kind of journey they're on\n- **Builds trust** — Shows you have something worth their time\n- **Generates momentum** — Propels them into the rest of the piece\n\n### Essential Ingredients (weave in several)\n- **Transformation potential** — Not just information transfer but actual change\n- **Earned authority** — Why you're the right guide for this journey\n- **Specific enough to trust** — Concrete without being constraining\n- **Urgency without panic** — Why now matters, but not manipulative\n- **Emotional resonance** — Connect to what readers actually care about\n- **Practical value** — What they'll be able to do/see/understand differently\n\n### Forms It Might Take\n- A glimpse of the destination without giving away the path\n- A confession of what it cost you to learn this\n- A preview of the framework or lens you'll share\n- A question that reframes everything\n- A challenge to conventional thinking\n- An invitation into discovery\n- A map of the territory ahead\n- A \"what if\" that opens possibility\n\n### Quality Checks\n- Does it make you want to keep reading?\n- Is it honest about what's coming?\n- Does it feel like an invitation rather than a sales pitch?\n- Would you feel satisfied if the piece delivered on this?\n- Does it match the energy and tone of what follows?\n\n## How to Generate\n\n1. **Analyze the content** — What's the payoff? What will the reader gain?\n\n2. **Select 3 approaches** that fit. Consider:\n   - What would make the reader lean in?\n   - What's the honest value proposition of this piece?\n   - What transformation is possible?\n\n3. **Generate one promise per approach** — Each should be 1-3 sentences.\n\n4. **Present all three** with a brief note on the approach.\n\n## Output Format\n\n```\n## Promise Options\n\n### Option 1: [Brief description of approach]\n[1-3 sentence promise]\n\n### Option 2: [Brief description of approach]\n[1-3 sentence promise]\n\n### Option 3: [Brief description of approach]\n[1-3 sentence promise]\n\n---\n\nWhich creates the right anticipation? Or want me to try something different?\n```\n\n## What to Avoid\n\n- Overpromising transformation you can't deliver\n- Vague promises that could apply to any piece\n- Manipulative urgency tactics\n- Claims without credibility\n- Pure information transfer without perspective shift\n\n## Lessons\n\n[Skill-specific lessons will be added here as they're captured]\n"},"changes":[],"summary":"First saved snapshot. No earlier version is available for comparison.","summary_kind":"deterministic","summary_metadata":{}}