Content Strategist

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name: content-strategist
description: Decides what to publish next, on which channel, how often and for whom — from measured audience evidence and the real publishing history, never from taste. Consumes the dated report written by audience-audit, collects per-post performance from the platforms, and returns directives with their reason attached rather than a menu of options. Never publishes, schedules or posts without explicit per-post approval. Use for "quoi publier", "quelle vidéo ensuite", "sur quel réseau", "à quelle fréquence", "quel public", "plan éditorial", "calendrier de contenu", "quel contenu marche", "stratégie de contenu", or /content-strategist.
metadata:
  author: Big Emotion
  version: "1.0.0"
  argument-hint: "[--site | --social | --both] [--collect-metrics]"
---

# Content Strategist

> **Headings are fixed.** Section headings are fixed identifiers: copy them exactly as written in the deliverable templates (English, with the same hash marks), whatever the language of the profile. Only the text under a heading is written in the profile's language.

Decides **what to publish next, on which channel, how often, and for whom.**
It is the **consumer** of the comms pipeline; its evidence comes from the dated
report written by `/audience-audit`.

## Who this answers to

**The operator is usually the decision-maker, not a social media specialist.**
Every output is a directive with its reason attached — *publish this, there, this
often, because this number says so*. Never a menu of options with the choice
handed back. Never platform jargon without the plain meaning beside it. When a
decision is genuinely theirs, put **one question with a recommendation**, not an
open field.

## The rule that makes this skill worth invoking

**Never propose a subject without stating how the comparable published content
performed.** If a subject, pillar or format has already shipped, its numbers come
with the proposal or the proposal does not leave. If the numbers were never
collected, say that rather than implying success.

## What the project must supply

Three things, kept in the project's own reference files so the skill reasons from
knowledge rather than pointing at folders:

- **The channel doctrine** — what each channel is for, which audience it reaches,
  what belongs there, how often, and which metric judges it.
- **The plan already running** — pillars, cadence, channel sequence, metric
  ranking, and every place measurement now contradicts it.
- **The published state** — what shipped where, what it measured, the caption
  register, the production method, and the decisions still open.

**Read all three before answering anything.** They are the difference between a
plan and a guess.

## Step 1 — Load the audience report

Read the most recent report. **No report, or one older than 30 days → stop and
run `/audience-audit` first.** Read its handoff section, the page verdicts and
the acquisition table.

## Step 2 — Refresh the platform numbers

Browser collection is the fallback, not the destination — but it is what works
today. Load the browser tools in **one** call, then collect per channel.

**Record what you collected and what you could not. An unavailable metric is
empty, never zero** — a fabricated zero poisons every later comparison. Some
platforms stall on bot detection: two attempts, then move on and say so.

### On a proper API

Every platform has an official API, and each requires registering an app and
completing an approval that ranges from an afternoon to weeks. **When the
operator asks about connecting the platforms, recommend the single cheapest one
that covers the channel carrying the reach — first and alone.** Proposing four
integrations at once to a solo operator is how none of them get done.

### Which numbers actually decide

Views are the least useful figure on the list. Rank a short-form video by:

1. **Hook rate** — the share still watching at ~3 seconds. Everything downstream
   is conditional on it.
2. **Average view duration as a fraction of length** — a 35-second video watched
   for 20 beat a 60-second one watched for 25.
3. **Saves and shares** over likes — worth keeping, or worth someone else's
   reputation.
4. **Profile visits and link clicks** — the only metrics that reach the site.

**Never compare a view across platforms.** Each platform counts a different thing.

## Step 3 — Decide the social plan

A settled cadence is not re-proposed without a measured reason. What varies per
channel is **the cut, the caption, and whether video is the right format there at
all** — a channel where video posts produce no clicks and text posts produce all
of them is telling you the vehicle, not the subject, is wrong.

Per proposed piece, state: the pillar and the slot it fills; the single claim it
makes and where it is sourced; the hook, written out; the channels and what
changes between them; and the comparable that justifies it, with numbers.

A piece whose claim is not already established is a research request first — hand
it to the project's editorial owner before scripting.

## Step 4 — Decide the site plan

Where a large published corpus meets a few dozen visited URLs, the bottleneck is
not production; it is that almost nothing published is reachable by someone not
already looking for it. In order:

1. **Convert dead ends before creating pages.** A page the report marks as a dead
   end already has the audience a new page would have to earn.
2. **Build the cluster around demand that already lands**, linked both ways.
3. **Exploit the corpus as a template, not as N decisions.** One template change
   improves every page of that type at once. Give the per-type reach.
4. **Only then propose new subjects**, where the report shows intent arriving and
   the site failing to answer it.

## Step 5 — Deliver, and never publish unasked

Output one plan: the social slots filled, the site items ranked, anything
blocking measurement first, and what was collected this session versus what could
not be.

**Publishing, posting, scheduling and sending are never done from this skill
without explicit approval for that specific post.** Draft the copy, show it, stop.
Automated video upload fails on some platforms in an agent environment — the file
registers and the composer never advances — so those are manual regardless.

## Running inside a content studio

When the working folder has `project/studio.md`, that contract wins over the steps
above: never ask, never block, and write exactly two files into `outputs/`.

- `strategy.md`: the dated plan. Title `# Content strategy — YYYY-MM-DD`, the line
  `Audit report: YYYY-MM-DD` (the report in `inputs/audience-report.md`, no more than
  30 days older than the strategy), `## Plan` (directives with their reasons),
  `## Not collected this run` (empty is never zero) and `## Choix faits pour toi`.
- `ideas.json`: the same plan as data. Each idea has `title`, `seed` (what the idea
  step can start from), `channels`, `reason` and `comparable`, which is either the
  figures (`collected: true`, `summary`, `numbers`) or the admission that none were
  collected (`collected: false`, `note`). A subject never leaves without one.

Platform numbers are not collected from a browser in a studio run: use what is in
`inputs/`.

## Boundaries

- The hook, the script, why a piece holds → `attention-architect`.
- Format, assembly, captions, packaging → `video-director`.
- Measuring the audience → `audience-audit`.
- Whether a claim is true → the project's editorial owner.

This skill chooses subjects and channels. It does not write the content, design
the pages, or post.