# participation-warmup-planner

Prepares a pre-promotion warmup plan for accounts entering external or owned communities. Sets give-before-ask ledgers and graduation criteria.

- 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/social/explore/participation-warmup-planner/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/participation-warmup-planner

## What it does

This skill creates an authentic participation ramp before promotional posts go live. It specifies account history expectations with cited sources and compiles dated community rule digests. It also defines a give-before-ask ledger spec. For owned channels in Discord or Slack, it designs entry paths alongside member lifecycle stages.

The output defines testable graduation criteria to transition an account from warming to active status. The skill reads channel dossiers and pulls platform rules via scripts like `hn.py` or `discourse.py`. It writes the resulting plan to `memory/social/participation-warmup-planner/` and proposes lifecycle events into `memory/events/channels.ndjson`.

The skill only generates the planning document. It never automates community engagement. Every post and reply must be handled by a human, as engagement pods and scripted replies violate the platform rules.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill participation-warmup-planner -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill participation-warmup-planner -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill participation-warmup-planner -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/participation-warmup-planner/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 participation-warmup-planner
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/participation-warmup-planner/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill participation-warmup-planner -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --path social/explore/participation-warmup-planner
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill participation-warmup-planner -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/social/explore/participation-warmup-planner/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Calculate account age and karma thresholds before starting promotion
- Compile a dated community etiquette and rule digest
- Track give-before-ask ratios prior to sharing promotional links
- Design onboarding paths and member lifecycle stages for an owned Discord or Slack space

## Example prompts
- Plan the participation warmup for r/selfhosted and Hacker News — we want to promote in 8 weeks
- Our account is 3 weeks old with 12 posts: build the warming to active graduation checklist
- Design entry incentives and member lifecycle stages for our upcoming Discord space

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

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---
name: participation-warmup-planner
slug: aaron-participation-warmup-planner
displayName: "Participation Warmup Planner · 参与预热计划"
summary: "社区参与预热/先给后取台账/规则摘要/warming毕业标准"
description: 'Use when the user asks to "plan the participation ramp before we promote", "how much account history or karma do we need in this community", or "design entry incentives and member lifecycle for our own Discord"; produces the per-community pre-promotion warming plan — account-history/tenure expectations (Estimated, named sources), a give-before-ask ledger spec, a per-community etiquette + rule digest with last-verified dates, and the warming → active graduation criteria that channel-registry requires as state-transition evidence — plus the owned-community variant (entry paths + member lifecycle for your own Discord/Slack/forum/企业微信私域). Not for launch-day submissions or T-0 threads — use community-launch-runner. 社区预热/先给后取/账号养成/毕业标准'
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 when channels are chosen but not yet promoted in: designing the authentic-participation ramp per community (account-history expectations, give-before-ask ledger spec, etiquette and rule digest with last-verified dates), setting the warming → active graduation criteria the channel registry records as transition evidence, or designing entry incentives and member lifecycle for an owned Discord/Slack/forum/企业微信 space. Picks up the phased-entry handoff from audience-mapper niche mode and builds the account standing community-launch-runner presumes at T-0. Not the launch-day submission plan itself."
argument-hint: "<community list or owned space> [target promotion window] [existing account history]"
metadata: {"author": "aaron-he-zhu", "version": "20.1.0", "discipline": "social", "phase": "explore", "geo-relevance": "low", "hermes": {"tags": ["marketing", "social", "explore"], "category": "social"}, "openclaw": {"emoji": "📣", "homepage": "https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills"}}
---

# Participation Warmup Planner
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