# narrative-baseline-mapper

Walks every surface you own — homepage, pricing, docs, deck, bios, email footers — and records what each one claims today, plus the gap against your intended message.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1000 installs · ★ 3013
- Author: aaron-he-zhu
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/narrative/trace/narrative-baseline-mapper/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/narrative-baseline-mapper

## What it does

The skill lists the surfaces in scope and captures the current state of each: the homepage headline, the pricing value line, the docs intro, the deck one-liner, social bios, email signatures. Every line carries an as-of date and a Measured, User-provided or Estimated label. Then each surface gets a gap read against the intended message — aligned, drifted, contradictory or silent.

No paid tools involved. You can paste copy by hand, or pull it through `scripts/connectors/firecrawl.py`, which runs a robots pre-flight first. Change history comes from `scripts/connectors/wayback.py`. Closed platforms such as X, Instagram and LinkedIn enter only as copy you paste in with an as-of date; the skill does not scrape them. If a canon already sits in `memory/narrative-registry/`, the gap is read against it instead of guessed.

Any claim found on a live surface that cannot be verified is marked `[needs source]` and sent to `memory/events/claims.ndjson` through `registry-events.py` with `operation: propose`. The skill does not adjudicate it and never writes canon — that flag is a prompt to check who on the team owns the wording. Output lands in `memory/narrative/narrative-baseline-mapper/`, and the frozen drift snapshot can be promoted to `memory/hot-cache.md` and `memory/open-loops.md` after asking.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill narrative-baseline-mapper -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/narrative-baseline-mapper/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/narrative-baseline-mapper/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill narrative-baseline-mapper -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/narrative-baseline-mapper/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill narrative-baseline-mapper -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/narrative-baseline-mapper/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills narrative-baseline-mapper
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/narrative-baseline-mapper/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill narrative-baseline-mapper -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --path narrative/trace/narrative-baseline-mapper
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/narrative-baseline-mapper/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill narrative-baseline-mapper -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/tree/HEAD/narrative/trace/narrative-baseline-mapper/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- collect every claim your surfaces make right now into one list
- spot where published copy drifts from the intended message
- freeze a before-snapshot ahead of a repositioning
- flag claims that have no source behind them
- compare live wording against an existing canon

## Example prompts
- Map what our surfaces say today for [brand]. Surfaces: homepage, pricing, docs, deck, bios, email footers — here are the URLs.
- Inventory our current messaging and show the gap vs our intended message: "[intended one-liner]".
- Freeze a narrative drift baseline before we reposition — snapshot every owned surface as of today.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: narrative-baseline-mapper
slug: aaron-narrative-baseline-mapper
displayName: "Narrative Baseline Mapper · 叙事基线盘点"
summary: "现状叙事盘点/各触点口径/意图差距/漂移基线"
description: 'Use when the user asks to "map what our surfaces say today", "inventory our current messaging", or "find the gap between what we say and what we mean"; produces the narrative baseline — a surface-by-surface inventory of what every owned touchpoint (homepage, pricing, docs, decks, social bios, email footers) claims RIGHT NOW, each line labeled Measured / User-provided / Estimated, plus a per-surface gap read vs the intended message and the drift-baseline snapshot the Evaluate phase measures future drift against. Not for authoring the canon — use message-system-architect; not for scoring the surfaces or running the vetoes — use narrative-quality-auditor. 现状叙事盘点/各触点口径/意图差距/漂移基线'
version: "20.1.0"
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: "Claude Code and compatible agent-skill hosts"
homepage: "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"
when_to_use: "Use as the first move of the TALE Trace phase, before any canon exists or before a repositioning: inventory what every owned surface (homepage, pricing, docs, decks, social bios, emails) says today, capture the gap vs the intended message, and freeze the drift baseline the Evaluate phase measures against. The before snapshot — not the canon itself and not the score."
argument-hint: "<brand / product> [surface URLs or paste] [intended message, if known]"
metadata: {"author": "aaron-he-zhu", "version": "20.1.0", "discipline": "narrative", "phase": "trace", "geo-relevance": "low", "hermes": {"tags": ["marketing", "narrative", "trace"], "category": "narrative"}, "openclaw": {"emoji": "📖", "homepage": "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"}}
---

# Narrative Baseline Mapper
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