SKILL.md
Strategic Narrative Designer
Builds the Raskin-style strategic change narrative — the five-beat arc that reframes a market before any tagline exists: old world (the status quo and its now-shaky assumptions) → the undeniable shift (what changed that nobody can unsee) → winners vs losers (who wins and who is stranded under the new rules) → the promised land (the future the shift makes possible) → proof the promised land is real (the evidence, each beat labeled and traceable). It is the first move of the TALE Architect phase and feeds the A dimension's strategic narrative arc present (old world → the shift → the new game → the promised land → proof), not just a feature list sub-item (see tale-benchmark.md). The arc is the spine message-system-architect hangs the durable message house on, so its quality is upstream of the A1 canon-integrity veto — but this skill authors story structure, never the canon record itself.
Scope guard: this skill produces the strategic narrative arc only. It does not author the durable message house — tagline, pillars, boilerplate, canon record (that is message-system-architect, which seeds the narrative-registry); build the sales/fundraising pitch deck narrative (pitch-narrative-builder); reconcile positioning against shippable reality (positioning-truth-tracer owns the truth set this reads); adjudicate any product or comparative claim (offer-claims-registry is the sole writer of memory/claims/claims-ledger.md — unverified proof beats are marked [needs source] and submitted to memory/events/claims.ndjson via an authorized operation: propose request to registry-events.py); or compute the TALE profile result (only the narrative-quality-auditor gate scores TALE). It works one lever — the arc — and hands off.
Quick Start
Design the change narrative for [product/brand] from the positioning truth set and belief map. Give me the five-beat arc.
Frame the shift our category is going through: old world, the undeniable change, winners vs losers, the promised land, the proof.
Stress-test our current story arc — does the "promised land" beat rest on proof we actually have, or on [needs source] claims?