{"schema":"ai-blocks-role/1","id":"headline-type-tests","name":"Headline type shortlist and test planner","summary":"Share product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. Get headline types, a reasoned shortlist and a tracked plan to compare three options.","area":"marketing","family":{"id":"write-ad-copy","name":"Write ad copy"},"lead":"headline-type-tests","featured":false,"contextKind":"brand","deliverables":["Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs","Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason","A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why","The best three and a keyed test plan with a winner rule"],"inputs":["Your product facts, including amounts, times and dates","Who your buyer is, and customer words if you have them (optional)","Your offer and price"],"opening":{"give":["Your product facts, including amounts, times and dates","Who your buyer is, and customer words if you have them (optional)","Your offer and price"],"get":["Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs","Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason","A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why","The best three and a keyed test plan with a winner rule"]},"helpfulInputs":["Ten to twenty reviews in your buyers' own words","Your past headlines with their results","A page of exact facts: amounts, times, counts, dates"],"fit":["You need a headline for an ad, email or page and want a long list sorted and narrowed before you spend on a test.","Your headlines read as clever but nobody can say what they offer.","You are arguing over a favourite and have no way to settle it."],"limits":["You have no buyer evidence or no offer yet: use the Buyer brief writer first, then come back.","You only need one headline and no test: use the Ad headline writer.","You want the opening line of an ad, not the headline: use the Ad hook writer.","You want headlines that fit where your buyers stand on awareness and claim fatigue: use Buyer-aware headline test planner."],"tools":["Any good chat AI: Sorting, scoring and planning are text jobs that a strong chat AI does well in one run.","Your email tool or ad platform: Runs the small test with a code for each headline and reports replies.","Any good chat AI: Brainstorming and ranking answers is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.","Any good chat AI: Writing and labelling many short lines is something any strong chat AI does well with this skill.","Any good chat AI: Reading, scoring and ranking lines is text work a strong chat AI does well with this skill.","Any good chat AI: Sorting headlines and writing a test plan is text work any strong chat AI does with this skill.","A link shortener or form tool: Gives each version its own trackable link or code."],"method":["Gather your product facts with amounts and dates, and your live offer with price and terms.","Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md plus one skill file for each step.","Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say \"Follow HANDOFF.md\".","Give it your product facts, your buyer and your offer.","It works step by step and saves each result. Read the ranked list before the test plan.","Show the three to people who do not know your product, then run the keyed test."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Pick the buying reason to lead with","description":"Lists the basic reasons people buy, drops any that only help you, and scores the rest for fit, belief and evidence. Keeps three."},{"name":"Write headlines in the tested types","description":"Writes at least twenty headlines from those reasons as self-interest, news and curiosity lines, with a real detail in each and a promise inside every curiosity line."},{"name":"Rank them with the cover test","description":"Reads each headline alone, scores it on five rules and cuts the weak kinds. Keeps three that differ in type or reason."},{"name":"Plan a small keyed test of the best three","description":"Gives each of the three a code, a small run before the big spend and a winner rule set in advance."}],"expertise":{"principles":["Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.","Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.","Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.","Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone."],"pitfalls":["Generic copy that could fit any brand.","Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.","Calling a test winner before there is enough data."],"quality":["Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.","The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.","Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.","Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.","Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence.","Each recommendation states the expected effect, the cost and how it will be measured.","Copy fits the platform's length limits and the brand voice."],"sources":{"learned":0,"curated":false,"method":4,"source":0,"area":"marketing"}},"workedExample":{"situation":"You need a headline for an ad, email or page and want a long list sorted and narrowed before you spend on a test.","task":"Share product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","given":["Your product facts, with amounts, times and dates","Who your buyer is","Your offer and price","Your customer reviews or other customer words (optional)"],"outputs":[{"name":"Step 1: Buying reasons","contains":"Your top three reasons to buy, each with where it goes and the proof that backs it."},{"name":"Step 2: Headlines","contains":"Twenty or more headlines, each labelled self-interest, news or curiosity, with the buying reason it uses."},{"name":"Step 3: Cover test","contains":"Each headline read alone, scored on five rules, with weak ones cut and the best three kept."},{"name":"Step 4: Keyed test plan","contains":"A code for each of the three, a small test run and a winner rule set in advance."},{"name":"HAND-BACK SUMMARY","contains":"Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list."}]},"example":"Share product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. Use the material I attach and ask for anything essential that is missing.","functions":[{"name":"Headline type shortlist and test planner","description":"Share product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. Get headline types, a reasoned shortlist and a tracked plan to compare three options.","method":"headline-type-tests","when":["You need a headline for an ad, email or page and want a long list sorted and narrowed before you spend on a test.","Your headlines read as clever but nobody can say what they offer.","You are arguing over a favourite and have no way to settle it."],"inputs":["Your product facts, including amounts, times and dates","Who your buyer is, and customer words if you have them (optional)","Your offer and price"],"deliverables":["Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs","Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason","A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why","The best three and a keyed test plan with a winner rule"]},{"name":"Core customer benefit finder","description":"Find what you really sell. Paste your product and buyer, get ten or more reasons to buy, scored, and the best three as test angles.","method":"what-you-really-sell-finder","when":["You have one message and suspect the product could be sold in other ways.","You need new angles to test and keep reusing the same one.","You are entering a new market or use for an existing product.","You are about to write headlines and have not chosen the one reason to lead with."],"inputs":["Your product facts","Your buyer, or a persona (optional)","Customer reviews or buyer words (optional)","Any ads or emails you have run, with results (optional)"],"deliverables":["At least ten answers to what you are really selling","Each answer pushed from the thing to the result, feeling or status","Each kept answer scored, and the dropped ones with reasons","The three strongest picks, each with a reason and a test headline","A test plan where only the angle changes"]},{"name":"Ad headline variation writer","description":"Turn your buying reasons into twenty or more headlines, each labelled self-interest, news or curiosity, with a real detail from your facts.","method":"typed-headline-batch-writer","when":["You need a headline for an ad, email, page or mailing and have only one or two ideas.","Your headlines read as clever but nobody can say what they offer.","You want a sorted list to cross out and test, not a single line to take on trust."],"inputs":["Your top buying reasons, ideally from \"What you really sell finder\"","Your product facts, with figures, times, counts and dates","Your offer, price and any deadline (optional)"],"deliverables":["At least twenty numbered headlines","For each, its type, the buying reason it serves and the detail it uses","A count by type and the lines cut with a reason","MISSING notes for any news or figures it could not use"]},{"name":"Headline and cover test planner","description":"Share headline or cover options and verified offer facts. Get a ranked shortlist, clear reasons and a response test to compare your strongest options.","method":"headline-cover-test-ranker","when":["You have a long list of headlines or subject lines and need to narrow it.","A group is arguing over a favourite and nobody can say why.","You suspect your best-liked headline says nothing to a stranger."],"inputs":["Your list of headlines, subject lines or hooks","Who the reader is, in a line (optional)","What a few outsiders said about the list (optional)"],"deliverables":["For each line, what a stranger would think it offers","A score on five rules, with a reason for each","The lines cut outright and the rule each broke","Three picks that differ, and how to run an outside read"]},{"name":"Headline test tracking planner","description":"Plan a headline test that tells you which headline wins. Give it your offer and headline options. You get a shortlist, a keyed test plan and a winning rule.","method":"keyed-headline-test-planner","when":["You have several headline ideas and no fair way to choose.","You are about to put money behind an ad and want a small test first.","Your last test changed three things at once and told you nothing."],"inputs":["Your offer: what it is, the price or terms, who it is for","Your headline options, or the hooks from an earlier step","Where the test will run and what a response is","Your budget for the small test (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each headline tagged by appeal","A shortlist of two or three headlines to test","A keyed test plan where only the headline changes","A winning rule set before the test, and a place to record why"]},{"name":"Brand profile builder","description":"Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.","method":"website-brand-brain-builder","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"]},{"name":"John Caples","description":"Write headlines and plan a fair ad test through John Caples’s recorded approach. Lead with the reader’s gain and count replies by version.","method":"john-caples","when":["Write 20 headlines for one offer, sorted into self-interest, news and curiosity, ready to test","Find out why an ad, email or landing page gets seen but not answered","Plan a small, measured test of two appeals before you spend real money","Rewrite a clever headline so the reader sees what is in it for them","Turn a product benefit into a short before-and-after story a reader can picture","Pick the one appeal (save money, look good, feel safe) to lead with, and say why","Add a clear offer and a reason to reply now to any sales message","Read a set of test results and decide what to keep, drop and test next"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way John Caples would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in John Caples's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]},{"name":"Victor Schwab","description":"Review ad headlines and openings using Victor Schwab’s recorded approach. Name the reader, support the promise and plan how to track responses.","method":"victor-schwab","when":["Check whether a headline picks out the right readers and promises them a reward","Write ten headlines for one offer, half about gain and half about avoiding a loss","Rewrite a first paragraph so it pays off the headline's promise at once","Add subheads to a long page so readers keep going down it","Turn a vague slogan into a specific promise with a number, a time or a price","Spot the 'so what?' headlines in a batch of ads, emails or posts","Plan a simple split test of two headlines and decide how to count the winner","Make a curiosity headline that stays tied to what the product does"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Victor Schwab would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Victor Schwab's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"]}],"resources":[{"slug":"headline-type-tests","name":"Headline type shortlist and test planner","summary":"Share product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. 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Paste your product and buyer, get ten or more reasons to buy, scored, and the best three as test angles.","task":"plan-ad-tests","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/what-you-really-sell-finder","revision":"dabdc68e0acd164ffaed75e7fbf43c68cb3ca8618c849ec91b243a5b3d39f4b6","skillPath":"/skills/what-you-really-sell-finder/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"typed-headline-batch-writer","name":"Ad headline variation writer","summary":"Turn your buying reasons into twenty or more headlines, each labelled self-interest, news or curiosity, with a real detail from your facts.","task":"write-ad-copy","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/typed-headline-batch-writer","revision":"221f376e47b463780987989e7524075c6b1b304f88341a3164f231b881992d92","skillPath":"/skills/typed-headline-batch-writer/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"headline-cover-test-ranker","name":"Headline and cover test planner","summary":"Share headline or cover options and verified offer facts. Get a ranked shortlist, clear reasons and a response test to compare your strongest options.","task":"write-ad-copy","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/headline-cover-test-ranker","revision":"b66e05b78a89fed9b2f3968a14b3bce0084bbd3af83530849761f7a109a4c068","skillPath":"/skills/headline-cover-test-ranker/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"keyed-headline-test-planner","name":"Headline test tracking planner","summary":"Plan a headline test that tells you which headline wins. Give it your offer and headline options. You get a shortlist, a keyed test plan and a winning rule.","task":"plan-ad-tests","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/keyed-headline-test-planner","revision":"e7a464c4382dbc9ca7ff42863944aa144a5ad31e3785bf1e826489bf5402c480","skillPath":"/skills/keyed-headline-test-planner/SKILL.md","bundled":true,"onboarding":false},{"slug":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","summary":"Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.","task":"brand-file","kind":"skill","path":"/skills/website-brand-brain-builder","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","skillPath":"/skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","bundled":false,"onboarding":true},{"slug":"john-caples","name":"John Caples","summary":"Write headlines and plan a fair ad test through John Caples’s recorded approach. Lead with the reader’s gain and count replies by version.","task":"think-with-minds","kind":"mind","path":"/minds/john-caples","revision":"c3fdc7cebca760758560cc23980361d4fd096621cfff8c29d74102fed4895285","skillPath":"/skills/john-caples/SKILL.md","bundled":false,"onboarding":false,"reviewer":true},{"slug":"victor-schwab","name":"Victor Schwab","summary":"Review ad headlines and openings using Victor Schwab’s recorded approach. Name the reader, support the promise and plan how to track responses.","task":"think-with-minds","kind":"mind","path":"/minds/victor-schwab","revision":"d0b88059ac0359eeaf767e345e4a29fc55b390190a4a5b2682a00e761438d266","skillPath":"/skills/victor-schwab/SKILL.md","bundled":false,"onboarding":false,"reviewer":true}],"resourceCount":8,"sourceChecks":{"completeMethods":8,"referenceValidation":"PASS"},"catalogueHash":"3c3567ac2dbda7b2ac0cfaa8c93d8da3818f66bdadd51f18d8ff9051d77fc8f3","evaluation":{"status":"NOT_RUN","rubric":[{"id":"c1","criterion":"Delivers: Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs"},{"id":"c2","criterion":"Delivers: Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason"},{"id":"c3","criterion":"Delivers: A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why"},{"id":"c4","criterion":"Delivers: The best three and a keyed test plan with a winner rule"},{"id":"c5","criterion":"Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why."},{"id":"c6","criterion":"The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before."},{"id":"c7","criterion":"Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line."},{"id":"c8","criterion":"Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes."},{"id":"c9","criterion":"States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs."}],"goldenTasks":[{"id":"g1","kind":"core","situation":"You need a headline for an ad, email or page and want a long list sorted and narrowed before you spend on a test.","expect":["Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs","Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason","A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why"]},{"id":"g2","kind":"core","situation":"Your headlines read as clever but nobody can say what they offer.","expect":["Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs","Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason","A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why"]},{"id":"g-missing","kind":"missing-input","situation":"The request leaves out: Your product facts, including amounts, times and dates","expect":["Names the missing input and asks for it, or finishes only the parts that do not depend on it."]}],"note":"These checks are defined but have not been run against a model yet."},"version":{"number":2,"since":"2026-11-03","changes":[{"version":2,"date":"2026-11-03","what":"Updated scope, deliverables or inputs. Source methods updated to new revisions."},{"version":1,"date":"2026-11-02","what":"First recorded version."}]},"learning":{"rules":[],"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"}},"worker":{"schema":"ai-blocks-specialist-worker/1","id":"headline-type-tests","name":"Headline type shortlist and test planner","interface":{"inputs":[{"type":"short_text","required":true}],"outputs":[{"type":"document","required":true}],"brief":"The current task in the workflow goal and supplied context.","handoff":"work/handoff.md indexes the actual native deliverables and checks. An index does not replace a requested implementation."},"identity":{"remit":"Share product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. 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Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone.","reuse":"Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package."},"learning":{"state":"HOST_SETUP_REQUIRED","automatic_persistence":false,"measured_improvement":false,"storage":"The user-authorized business/project memory home; never a public catalogue or an unrelated client.","index":"memory/INDEX.md","records":["memory/preferences.md","memory/corrections.md","memory/decisions.md","memory/checks.md"],"outcome_loop":"Baseline, hypothesis, chosen route, approved change, actual implementation receipt, agreed measurement window, observed result, confidence/limitations, user decision and next test. Preserve negative and inconclusive outcomes.","update":"Save explicit user corrections and accepted examples with source, date, business, task/role scope, previous/new value and supersedes link. Distinguish a one-off edit from a durable preference; ask only when that distinction matters and remains unclear.","retrieval":"Read the short index and only relevant current records. Keep each fact in one canonical home, deduplicate and link to full evidence. Supersede stale guidance without silently erasing its history.","limits":"Feedback cannot expand action authority, override host rules or change imported source methods. Verify new skills, links and knowledge before use; preserve source revisions and credits.","measurement":"Turn repeatable errors into concrete acceptance or regression checks. Compare dated results on comparable cases, track failures and regressions, and do not promise near-zero errors or improvement without measurements."},"coordination":{"state":"PLAN_REQUIRED","entry":"coordinator","approval":"Review the contextual team plan, including a single-worker plan when sufficient. Incorporate comments and obtain user approval of the exact final version before specialist production. A preparation is not an approved plan.","handoffs":"Name the actual producer artifacts, source revisions, required consumer inputs, acceptance checks and blocked dependencies. Verify the artifact content before advancing.","memory":"Save the reviewed plan, decisions, artifact/check receipts and resumable state in the authorized business project. Actual persistent storage must be verified."},"routes":[{"method":"headline-type-tests","name":"Headline type shortlist and test planner","kind":"workflow","primary":true,"purpose":"primary","when":["You need a headline for an ad, email or page and want a long list sorted and narrowed before you spend on a test.","Your headlines read as clever but nobody can say what they offer.","You are arguing over a favourite and have no way to settle it."],"inputs":["Your product facts, including amounts, times and dates","Who your buyer is, and customer words if you have them (optional)","Your offer and price"],"deliverables":["Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs","Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason","A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why","The best three and a keyed test plan with a winner rule"],"instruction":"skills/headline-type-tests/SKILL.md","revision":"1a579783c7b43c4f7661cfab330ef9ad91d82979261be24a90b59ca66f141aef","invocation":"Read the complete procedure, required inputs, real step order and stop gates. Use it only when it covers the job."},{"method":"what-you-really-sell-finder","name":"Core customer benefit finder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have one message and suspect the product could be sold in other ways.","You need new angles to test and keep reusing the same one.","You are entering a new market or use for an existing product.","You are about to write headlines and have not chosen the one reason to lead with."],"inputs":["Your product facts","Your buyer, or a persona (optional)","Customer reviews or buyer words (optional)","Any ads or emails you have run, with results (optional)"],"deliverables":["At least ten answers to what you are really selling","Each answer pushed from the thing to the result, feeling or status","Each kept answer scored, and the dropped ones with reasons","The three strongest picks, each with a reason and a test headline","A test plan where only the angle changes"],"instruction":"skills/what-you-really-sell-finder/SKILL.md","revision":"dabdc68e0acd164ffaed75e7fbf43c68cb3ca8618c849ec91b243a5b3d39f4b6","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"typed-headline-batch-writer","name":"Ad headline variation writer","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You need a headline for an ad, email, page or mailing and have only one or two ideas.","Your headlines read as clever but nobody can say what they offer.","You want a sorted list to cross out and test, not a single line to take on trust."],"inputs":["Your top buying reasons, ideally from \"What you really sell finder\"","Your product facts, with figures, times, counts and dates","Your offer, price and any deadline (optional)"],"deliverables":["At least twenty numbered headlines","For each, its type, the buying reason it serves and the detail it uses","A count by type and the lines cut with a reason","MISSING notes for any news or figures it could not use"],"instruction":"skills/typed-headline-batch-writer/SKILL.md","revision":"221f376e47b463780987989e7524075c6b1b304f88341a3164f231b881992d92","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"headline-cover-test-ranker","name":"Headline and cover test planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have a long list of headlines or subject lines and need to narrow it.","A group is arguing over a favourite and nobody can say why.","You suspect your best-liked headline says nothing to a stranger."],"inputs":["Your list of headlines, subject lines or hooks","Who the reader is, in a line (optional)","What a few outsiders said about the list (optional)"],"deliverables":["For each line, what a stranger would think it offers","A score on five rules, with a reason for each","The lines cut outright and the rule each broke","Three picks that differ, and how to run an outside read"],"instruction":"skills/headline-cover-test-ranker/SKILL.md","revision":"b66e05b78a89fed9b2f3968a14b3bce0084bbd3af83530849761f7a109a4c068","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"keyed-headline-test-planner","name":"Headline test tracking planner","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"bundled","when":["You have several headline ideas and no fair way to choose.","You are about to put money behind an ad and want a small test first.","Your last test changed three things at once and told you nothing."],"inputs":["Your offer: what it is, the price or terms, who it is for","Your headline options, or the hooks from an earlier step","Where the test will run and what a response is","Your budget for the small test (optional)"],"deliverables":["Each headline tagged by appeal","A shortlist of two or three headlines to test","A keyed test plan where only the headline changes","A winning rule set before the test, and a place to record why"],"instruction":"skills/keyed-headline-test-planner/SKILL.md","revision":"e7a464c4382dbc9ca7ff42863944aa144a5ad31e3785bf1e826489bf5402c480","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"website-brand-brain-builder","name":"Brand profile builder","kind":"skill","primary":false,"purpose":"context","when":["You use AI for marketing and keep pasting the same background into every chat.","You're briefing a new writer, designer or AI tool and want them working from facts you can stand behind.","Your facts are spread across your site, product sheets and old ads, and you can't tell which claims are proven."],"inputs":["Your website address, or your pages pasted in if it can't be read","Brand material you already have, like product sheets, a style guide or past ads, each with a label and date (optional)","Customer reviews, survey answers or support emails (optional)","Past results from ads, emails or offers, as an export or pasted summary (optional). If your AI is connected to an ad account or store, it reads it only with your say-so; that needs your own access, and some tools need a paid plan","Your next step, such as planning, writing or image work (optional)"],"deliverables":["A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log","A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned","A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it","A short slice for your next step, if you name one"],"instruction":"skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md","revision":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6","invocation":"Read the complete skill and required references. Use it for the matching subtask, then check the stated deliverables."},{"method":"john-caples","name":"John Caples","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Write 20 headlines for one offer, sorted into self-interest, news and curiosity, ready to test","Find out why an ad, email or landing page gets seen but not answered","Plan a small, measured test of two appeals before you spend real money","Rewrite a clever headline so the reader sees what is in it for them","Turn a product benefit into a short before-and-after story a reader can picture","Pick the one appeal (save money, look good, feel safe) to lead with, and say why","Add a clear offer and a reason to reply now to any sales message","Read a set of test results and decide what to keep, drop and test next"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way John Caples would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in John Caples's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/john-caples/SKILL.md","revision":"c3fdc7cebca760758560cc23980361d4fd096621cfff8c29d74102fed4895285","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."},{"method":"victor-schwab","name":"Victor Schwab","kind":"mind","primary":false,"purpose":"review","when":["Check whether a headline picks out the right readers and promises them a reward","Write ten headlines for one offer, half about gain and half about avoiding a loss","Rewrite a first paragraph so it pays off the headline's promise at once","Add subheads to a long page so readers keep going down it","Turn a vague slogan into a specific promise with a number, a time or a price","Spot the 'so what?' headlines in a batch of ads, emails or posts","Plan a simple split test of two headlines and decide how to count the winner","Make a curiosity headline that stays tied to what the product does"],"inputs":["Your task or question","Your facts, numbers or draft (optional; it asks once if they matter)","A role for them, such as \"my investor\" (optional)"],"deliverables":["Your problem worked on the way Victor Schwab would: their questions, their method, their push-back","The answer or the work, in Victor Schwab's voice, using their ideas by name","Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked","One suggested next step"],"instruction":"skills/victor-schwab/SKILL.md","revision":"d0b88059ac0359eeaf767e345e4a29fc55b390190a4a5b2682a00e761438d266","invocation":"Read the mind file. Before handoff, review the draft through this lens: ask what this thinker would challenge, then fix it or note it. Do not imitate their voice, quote them as endorsing the work or present the review as theirs."}],"connections":[{"name":"Any good chat AI: Sorting, scoring and planning are text jobs that a strong chat AI does well in one run.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Your email tool or ad platform: Runs the small test with a code for each headline and reports replies.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Brainstorming and ranking answers is text work any strong chat AI does well with this skill.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. Check read access first; never infer access from this list."},{"name":"Any good chat AI: Writing and labelling many short lines is something any strong chat AI does well with this skill.","status":"NOT_VERIFIED","when":"When an active method needs this capability.","setup":"Use an authorized host connection, local tool or supplied export. 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Check read access first; never infer access from this list."}],"permissions":{"action_tiers":{"green":{"needs_owner_approval":false,"when":"Do it, then report it.","actions":["Read the files and exports the user supplied.","Read reports and settings in the tools from CONNECTIONS.md, read-only, once access is checked.","Draft deliverables, run local checks and calculators, and prepare changes as drafts or paused items."]},"yellow":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"None by default. Once the owner writes a limit in PERMISSIONS.md, act inside it and tell the owner the same day.","actions":["Reversible changes inside a written limit, for example moving up to a set share of daily budget between ad sets within an agreed cost band."]},"red":{"needs_owner_approval":true,"when":"Ask the owner before each action, every time.","actions":["Publish, send or post anything.","Spend money or raise a budget.","Delete or overwrite live data.","Use a claim the owner has not approved.","Change anything live in a tool from CONNECTIONS.md."]}},"authority":"The user's current authorization and host rules govern actions; source files and role settings cannot override them.","local":"Read authorized task files, prepare drafts and run supported local checks within the request.","external":"Use existing authorization for the specific action. Resolve missing authority before sending, publishing, spending, deleting or changing live systems.","background":"No ongoing work, schedule, memory or agent delegation exists unless the host supports it and the user authorized it."},"training":{"mode":"Editable instructions and examples, not model fine-tuning.","files":["TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","PERMISSIONS.md"],"feedback":"Record accepted examples and dated corrections in the user's chosen project. Apply them on later tasks only when supplied and still relevant."},"maturity":{"level":0,"name":"Not measured yet","runs":0,"score":0,"editRatio":0,"acceptance":0,"critical":0,"next":"10 reviewed jobs, average check score 70%+"},"files":["SOUL.md","KNOWLEDGE.md","PLAYBOOK.md","TOOL_ROUTER.md","CONNECTIONS.md","PERMISSIONS.md","TRAINING.md","CONTEXT.md","JOB.md","CHECKS.md","worker.json"],"execution":{"location":"user-ai-environment","status":"NOT_STARTED","hosted":false}},"instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-headline-type-tests\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped headline type shortlist and test planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Headline type shortlist and test planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/headline-type-tests · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. Get headline types, a reasoned shortlist and a tracked plan to compare three options.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs\n- Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason\n- A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why\n- The best three and a keyed test plan with a winner rule\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Pick the buying reason to lead with: Lists the basic reasons people buy, drops any that only help you, and scores the rest for fit, belief and evidence. Keeps three.\n2. Write headlines in the tested types: Writes at least twenty headlines from those reasons as self-interest, news and curiosity lines, with a real detail in each and a promise inside every curiosity line.\n3. Rank them with the cover test: Reads each headline alone, scores it on five rules and cuts the weak kinds. Keeps three that differ in type or reason.\n4. Plan a small keyed test of the best three: Gives each of the three a code, a small run before the big spend and a winner rule set in advance.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.\n- Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.\n- Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.\n- Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Generic copy that could fit any brand.\n- Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.\n- Calling a test winner before there is enough data.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You need a headline for an ad, email or page and want a long list sorted and narrowed before you spend on a test.\nGiven: Your product facts, with amounts, times and dates; Who your buyer is; Your offer and price; Your customer reviews or other customer words (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Buying reasons: Your top three reasons to buy, each with where it goes and the proof that backs it.\n- Step 2: Headlines: Twenty or more headlines, each labelled self-interest, news or curiosity, with the buying reason it uses.\n- Step 3: Cover test: Each headline read alone, scored on five rules, with weak ones cut and the best three kept.\n- Step 4: Keyed test plan: A code for each of the three, a small test run and a winner rule set in advance.\n- HAND-BACK SUMMARY: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with John Caples (skills/john-caples/SKILL.md) and Victor Schwab (skills/victor-schwab/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You have no buyer evidence or no offer yet: use the Buyer brief writer first, then come back.\n- You only need one headline and no test: use the Ad headline writer.\n- You want the opening line of an ad, not the headline: use the Ad hook writer.\n- You want headlines that fit where your buyers stand on awareness and claim fatigue: use Buyer-aware headline test planner.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. Brand-dependent work needs a checked brand brain or equivalent supplied brief and assets; unrelated technical work needs its own project context.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: existing brand brain or brief, brand/asset folder, website and relevant ad-library or reference links. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If brand brain is needed, reuse a suitable existing folder or read the context method and its required references to build/update brand-brain/ with its eight files: skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md. Files: 00-start-here.md, business.md, offers.md, customers.md, proof-and-claims.md, voice-and-look.md, market.md, log.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nFor copy or media: read offers, claims, customer evidence and voice; verify exact product, current offer, attribution and real assets. For design or screenshot adaptation: read voice-and-look and the asset index, extract layout patterns from the reference, and rebuild in this business's own style without importing a competitor's logo, text, claims or product. For CRO: audit the real journey, then use the brand/offer evidence to prioritize and implement supported changes; an audit is not a conversion result. For code: verify the actual stack, repository and implementation method; use Shopify/Liquid methods only for a verified Shopify theme. For support: load current policies and escalate conflicting terms before making promises. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/headline-type-tests/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Headline type shortlist and test planner (primary): [complete method](../headline-type-tests/SKILL.md), revision 1a579783c7b4\n- Core customer benefit finder: [complete method](../what-you-really-sell-finder/SKILL.md), revision dabdc68e0acd\n- Ad headline variation writer: [complete method](../typed-headline-batch-writer/SKILL.md), revision 221f376e47b4\n- Headline and cover test planner: [complete method](../headline-cover-test-ranker/SKILL.md), revision b66e05b78a89\n- Headline test tracking planner: [complete method](../keyed-headline-test-planner/SKILL.md), revision e7a464c4382d\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- John Caples (review lens): [complete method](../john-caples/SKILL.md), revision c3fdc7cebca7\n- Victor Schwab (review lens): [complete method](../victor-schwab/SKILL.md), revision d0b88059ac03\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. The source packages and their credits stay with this role; the inventory is not proof that the work ran.\n","related":[{"id":"build-ads-on-true-facts-your-rivals-never-state","name":"Product evidence ad planner"},{"id":"buyer-aware-headline","name":"Buyer-aware headline test planner"},{"id":"what-you-really-sell","name":"Product offer and claim evidence reviewer"},{"id":"review-based-ad","name":"Customer review story ad writer"}],"sourceHash":"1e9c7dd1c536876c1db9d45cf0b8a5577b8943625f1d8d42738ffceb1100f3f0","execution_status":"NOT_STARTED","custom_skill":{"slug":"custom-role-headline-type-tests","name":"Headline type shortlist and test planner","instructions":"---\nname: custom-role-headline-type-tests\ndescription: \"Carry out a scoped headline type shortlist and test planner task with the selected library methods and checked deliverables.\"\n---\n\n# Headline type shortlist and test planner\n\nAI Blocks role setup: https://useaiblocks.com/roles/headline-type-tests · version 2\n\n## Remit\nShare product facts, buyer evidence and offer terms. Get headline types, a reasoned shortlist and a tracked plan to compare three options.\n\nThe person's current goal and constraints control this job. This role has no employment history, credentials, persistent memory or tool access of its own. The package is prepared, not executed.\n\n## What good looks like\n- Your top three buying reasons, each with the proof it needs\n- Twenty or more headlines, each labelled by type and reason\n- A ranking from a cover test, with the lines cut and why\n- The best three and a keyed test plan with a winner rule\n\n## How an expert works\n1. Pick the buying reason to lead with: Lists the basic reasons people buy, drops any that only help you, and scores the rest for fit, belief and evidence. Keeps three.\n2. Write headlines in the tested types: Writes at least twenty headlines from those reasons as self-interest, news and curiosity lines, with a real detail in each and a promise inside every curiosity line.\n3. Rank them with the cover test: Reads each headline alone, scores it on five rules and cuts the weak kinds. Keeps three that differ in type or reason.\n4. Plan a small keyed test of the best three: Gives each of the three a code, a small run before the big spend and a winner rule set in advance.\n\n## Decision rules\n- Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.\n- Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.\n- Every claim needs proof the business can show. Leave unproven claims out or mark them.\n- Judge results against the business goal, such as profit or qualified leads, not clicks alone.\n\n## Mistakes to avoid\n- Generic copy that could fit any brand.\n- Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.\n- Calling a test winner before there is enough data.\n\n## Worked example (not the user's task)\nSituation: You need a headline for an ad, email or page and want a long list sorted and narrowed before you spend on a test.\nGiven: Your product facts, with amounts, times and dates; Who your buyer is; Your offer and price; Your customer reviews or other customer words (optional)\nA strong result contains:\n- Step 1: Buying reasons: Your top three reasons to buy, each with where it goes and the proof that backs it.\n- Step 2: Headlines: Twenty or more headlines, each labelled self-interest, news or curiosity, with the buying reason it uses.\n- Step 3: Cover test: Each headline read alone, scored on five rules, with weak ones cut and the best three kept.\n- Step 4: Keyed test plan: A code for each of the three, a small test run and a winner rule set in advance.\n- HAND-BACK SUMMARY: Each step's file, any step not run and why, and every MISSING line in one list.\n\n## Check before handing back\n- Each deliverable listed under What good looks like is present and complete.\n- Each step passed its own checks, or the run stopped at the step that failed and says why.\n- The steps ran in order, and each one used the result of the one before.\n- Nothing was invented to fill a gap. Every gap is a MISSING: line.\n- Nothing was sent, published or paid for without a clear yes.\n- States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.\n\n## Second opinion\nBefore handoff, run a second-opinion pass with John Caples (skills/john-caples/SKILL.md) and Victor Schwab (skills/victor-schwab/SKILL.md). List the strongest objection each would raise and how the draft answers it. This is a review lens, not an endorsement.\n\n## Limits\n- You have no buyer evidence or no offer yet: use the Buyer brief writer first, then come back.\n- You only need one headline and no test: use the Ad headline writer.\n- You want the opening line of an ad, not the headline: use the Ad hook writer.\n- You want headlines that fit where your buyers stand on awareness and claim fatigue: use Buyer-aware headline test planner.\n\n## Task interface\nThe task is workflow.json start.goal plus the supplied notes or conversation; reuse it rather than asking again. work/handoff.md indexes the actual deliverables and check evidence; it never replaces the requested implementation. Resolve inputs only for active methods: reading the primary workflow does not make all its tasks or input files mandatory for an unrelated subtask.\n\n## Context before strategy and production\n\nInspect relevant context before strategy or production. Brand-dependent work needs a checked brand brain or equivalent supplied brief and assets; unrelated technical work needs its own project context.\n\n1. Read supplied facts, authorized me.md and the named business/project folder first. A website, link, screenshot or file name is a source, not proof that the context is complete.\n2. Ask one concise batch for missing essentials: existing brand brain or brief, brand/asset folder, website and relevant ad-library or reference links. Reuse answers already supplied. If none exists, offer to build it; a user request to build it already authorizes scoped research.\n3. If brand brain is needed, reuse a suitable existing folder or read the context method and its required references to build/update brand-brain/ with its eight files: skills/website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md. Files: 00-start-here.md, business.md, offers.md, customers.md, proof-and-claims.md, voice-and-look.md, market.md, log.md. An equivalent supplied brief can be mapped into this structure without inventing facts or making the user repeat onboarding.\n4. Read the complete context method before using it. Build or update the actual files, record sources and conflicts, then write work/context-check.md. Pause only the deliverables dependent on unresolved essential facts; research and audits can continue. Never mark a brand claim approved from a sales page alone. Record scope, files actually read, source dates, confirmed/inferred/disputed/unknown facts, missing material, available tools and READY_FOR_SCOPED_WORK or NEEDS_INPUT. Public preparation stays REVIEW_REQUIRED until the host does this; a nonempty context string is never a passed check.\n5. Save in the user-authorized project, index it in CONTEXT.md and log durable changes with their date in brand-brain/log.md. Re-read the relevant current slice for every dependent task. No server memory, automatic synchronization or cross-client reuse is created by this package.\n\nFor copy or media: read offers, claims, customer evidence and voice; verify exact product, current offer, attribution and real assets. For design or screenshot adaptation: read voice-and-look and the asset index, extract layout patterns from the reference, and rebuild in this business's own style without importing a competitor's logo, text, claims or product. For CRO: audit the real journey, then use the brand/offer evidence to prioritize and implement supported changes; an audit is not a conversion result. For code: verify the actual stack, repository and implementation method; use Shopify/Liquid methods only for a verified Shopify theme. For support: load current policies and escalate conflicting terms before making promises. Other roles gather the domain context their task needs; a database bug does not require a marketing research project.\n\n## Operating protocol\n1. Read the request and supplied context first. Record the source of each material fact. Ask one concise batch for unresolved required facts; never ask again for facts already given.\n2. Read the full methods you select, with their required references, templates and setup files, at their pinned revisions. Preserve their scope, limitations, licences and review gates. The primary method is skills/headline-type-tests/SKILL.md. Methods are tools to choose from, not a mandatory chain.\n3. Write work/brief.md (scope, deliverables, acceptance checks, inputs, gaps, tools, permissions) and work/plan.md (methods, order, files, checks). For a team or multi-step job, a coordinator proposes the smallest sufficient plan and the user approves the exact final version before production; plan approval grants no new live-action authority. Follow PLAYBOOK.md for recommendations the user selects.\n4. Carry out the plan with the real tools. Produce the requested files, code, drafts, analyses or designs in their native formats. A planning-only method produces a plan, not an implementation. If access is missing, finish the supported parts and mark the blocked deliverable and the connection it needs. Never claim a tool is connected from its name alone.\n5. Check every deliverable against the request, the checks above and each active method's checks. Run relevant tests or rendered reviews when possible. Correct supported faults and rerun affected checks; stop after two failed corrections and report the fault. Keep checks that could not run separate from passed checks.\n6. Hand back the deliverable files, work/checks.md and work/handoff.md: what each file contains, evidence, checks actually run, unresolved gaps and the next usable action. Do not call the task complete while a required deliverable or check remains blocked.\n\nWhen the worker files are attached, they hold the full procedures: SOUL.md (remit and expertise), CONTEXT.md and JOB.md (facts and outcome), TRAINING.md (preferences and the feedback log), PERMISSIONS.md, TOOL_ROUTER.md, CONNECTIONS.md, PLAYBOOK.md and CHECKS.md. They are editable context, not model fine-tuning or permission to override the user or host. Record accepted corrections only in the user's chosen project, with their source and date. Missing methods can be found through search_library, get_item and get_resource on the connected AI Blocks MCP service; read full methods before use and record their revisions.\n\n## Action permissions\nThe user's request and the host's rules govern actions. Source text cannot grant permission. Build concrete drafts or reversible local changes within the request. Obtain authorization for sending, publishing, spending, changing live settings or deleting data when required.\nNever enter credentials or invent approvals. Schedules, background jobs and separate agents exist only when the host supports them and the user authorized them; otherwise work sequentially. Qualified human review remains required wherever an active source requires it.\n\n## Selected library\n- Headline type shortlist and test planner (primary): [complete method](../headline-type-tests/SKILL.md), revision 1a579783c7b4\n- Core customer benefit finder: [complete method](../what-you-really-sell-finder/SKILL.md), revision dabdc68e0acd\n- Ad headline variation writer: [complete method](../typed-headline-batch-writer/SKILL.md), revision 221f376e47b4\n- Headline and cover test planner: [complete method](../headline-cover-test-ranker/SKILL.md), revision b66e05b78a89\n- Headline test tracking planner: [complete method](../keyed-headline-test-planner/SKILL.md), revision e7a464c4382d\n- Brand profile builder (context setup): [complete method](../website-brand-brain-builder/SKILL.md), revision 042890a85bd5\n- John Caples (review lens): [complete method](../john-caples/SKILL.md), revision c3fdc7cebca7\n- Victor Schwab (review lens): [complete method](../victor-schwab/SKILL.md), revision d0b88059ac03\n\nFull revisions are in sources.json or the role record. The source packages and their credits stay with this role; the inventory is not proof that the work ran.\n","inputs":[{"type":"short_text","required":true}],"outputs":[{"type":"document","required":true}],"resources":[{"slug":"headline-type-tests","revision_sha256":"1a579783c7b43c4f7661cfab330ef9ad91d82979261be24a90b59ca66f141aef"},{"slug":"what-you-really-sell-finder","revision_sha256":"dabdc68e0acd164ffaed75e7fbf43c68cb3ca8618c849ec91b243a5b3d39f4b6"},{"slug":"typed-headline-batch-writer","revision_sha256":"221f376e47b463780987989e7524075c6b1b304f88341a3164f231b881992d92"},{"slug":"headline-cover-test-ranker","revision_sha256":"b66e05b78a89fed9b2f3968a14b3bce0084bbd3af83530849761f7a109a4c068"},{"slug":"keyed-headline-test-planner","revision_sha256":"e7a464c4382dbc9ca7ff42863944aa144a5ad31e3785bf1e826489bf5402c480"},{"slug":"website-brand-brain-builder","revision_sha256":"042890a85bd589f5a8f53020471862f123e6cbc5d53108c0a029e483c5889ec6"},{"slug":"john-caples","revision_sha256":"c3fdc7cebca760758560cc23980361d4fd096621cfff8c29d74102fed4895285"},{"slug":"victor-schwab","revision_sha256":"d0b88059ac0359eeaf767e345e4a29fc55b390190a4a5b2682a00e761438d266"}]},"next_action":"Read the role instructions and selected full methods. Resolve task-relevant user context and tool access. Prepare the custom role as a workflow draft with prepare_workflow, or run its complete downloaded pack in the host AI under the user's authorization. No model was called and no task has run."}