Content Triage: Draft the Piece or Plan the Calendar
Sorts a vague content request into a draft, a voice analysis, or a plan, then delivers it with search intent and a capacity check.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
I'd be happy to help you write a blog post about API rate limiting! Here's a draft: # Introducing Smarter Rate Limiting We're excited to announce improvements to our API rate limiting system. Rate limiting is an important part of any robust API, helping ensure fair usage and system stability for all users. ## What's New Our new rate limiting approach provides better visibility and more predictable behavior... [continues with generic sections on Why It Matters, How It Works, and Getting Started] Let me know if you'd like me to adjust the tone, length, or focus of any section!
→ Routing to content-production. This is a deprecated entry point. It reads intent and hands off rather than answering — writing, SEO, and brand-voice work belongs to content-production; planning work belongs to content-strategy. MATCHED: "write a blog post" → content-production WHAT IT WILL NEED FROM YOU • Brand voice reference (existing posts, or a style guide) • Audience: developers integrating, or decision-makers evaluating? • The actual change — limits, headers, migration window • Target keyword, if this is meant to rank WOULD HAVE ROUTED TO content-strategy INSTEAD "plan our Q3 content" · "build a topic cluster around API design" · "create a content calendar" Invoke content-production directly next time and skip this hop.
About this skill
You typed "help me with content" and got a generic 1,500-word essay when you needed a quarter's plan. Or you got a 40-post calendar when you needed one launch post shipped today. This skill works out what the request actually is, says so in one line, and does that job in the same reply.
What it does
- Reads your request and picks the right mode: draft one piece, analyze a brand voice, or plan a cluster and calendar. Mixed requests get a plan first, then the first piece.
- Matches each draft to the search intent behind it: answer-first for how-to queries, a comparison table for "X vs Y", what you can now do for announcements
- Writes H2s as claims a skimmer can follow, strips out machine-sounding filler, and marks missing facts with [NEED:] instead of inventing quotes or metrics
- Builds topic clusters with one pillar and 6-12 cluster pages, each targeting a different search, with a check that no two pages compete for the same query
- Checks every calendar against your real writing capacity and shows the math when the plan is too big
- Turns brand voice into measurable traits (sentence length, person, contractions, openers) and proves it with a rewrite
What you get
A one-line mode call, then either a ready-to-edit draft with title options and an SEO block, or a goal-to-topic map with a calendar table where every row has a target search, a funnel stage, an owner, and a call to action. Each version lists its assumptions and asks at most 3 questions.
Best for
Founders, solo marketers, and small content teams who ask for "content" in one line and need either a publishable draft or a plan the team can actually ship.
SKILL.md preview
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name: content-triage-draft-or-plan
description: Sorts a loosely worded content request into the right job (draft one piece, analyze a brand voice, or plan a topic cluster and calendar) and then delivers it - intent-matched drafts with an SEO block, or calendars checked against the team's real capacity. Use when the user says "content creator: write me a blog post", "help me with content for our launch", "plan a content calendar for Q1", "build a topic cluster around X", "analyze our brand voice", "I don't know what to write about", "our blog posts get no traffic", "write 20 posts for our site".
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# Content Triage: Draft the Piece or Plan the Calendar
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