| name | positioning-truth-tracer |
| slug | aaron-positioning-truth-tracer |
| displayName | Positioning Truth Tracer · 定位真相校准 |
| summary | 定位画布对齐可交付现实与主张台账/差异化真相集 |
| description | Use when the user asks to "check our positioning against what we can actually ship", "trace which differentiators we can defend", or "reconcile the positioning canvas with the claims ledger"; reconciles the reused positioning canvas against the shippable stage and the claims ledger to produce a differentiation truth set — every differentiating claim verifiable or marked '[needs source]' — that TALE-T1 is judged against. Not for building the canvas — use positioning-mapper; not for adjudicating claims — use offer-claims-registry; not for authoring the message house — use message-system-architect. 定位真相/差异化校准/可交付现实/主张核对 |
| 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 in the TALE Trace phase after a positioning canvas exists, to reconcile it against shippable reality (the launch-registry stage record) and the claims ledger, then produce the differentiation truth set that the T1 veto is judged against. Every differentiating claim is either verifiable now or marked [needs source] and routed to the claims candidates. Not the canvas itself (reuse positioning-mapper) and not claim adjudication (offer-claims-registry). |
| argument-hint | <product / brand> [positioning canvas path] [stage: draft|alpha|beta|GA] |
| 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"}} |
Positioning Truth Tracer
Reconciles the reused positioning canvas against two truth surfaces — what the product can actually ship (the stage record) and what the claims ledger has substantiated — to produce the differentiation truth set: the set of differentiators the brand can defend today, each labeled Measured / User-provided / [needs source]. It is the fourth Trace-phase move of the TALE loop and the upstream of the T1 differentiation-integrity veto: the onlyness/difference statement must hold against named alternatives and rest only on claims that are in the ledger or explicitly flagged — never asserted as fact. See tale-benchmark.md for the T sub-items this feeds (positioning matches shippable reality, every differentiating claim verifiable or [needs source], aspirational framing separated from claimed fact) and the T1 veto text.
Scope guard: this skill traces truth, it does not create positioning, adjudicate claims, or author messaging. It does not build the positioning canvas (positioning-mapper is the sole upstream — if the canvas is missing, route there and stop), adjudicate or substantiate a claim (offer-claims-registry is the sole writer of memory/claims/claims-ledger.md — this skill only marks and routes), author the durable message hierarchy or arc (message-system-architect), or compute the TALE profile result (only the narrative-quality-auditor gate scores TALE and runs T1). It works one lever — differentiation truth — and hands off.
Quick Start
Trace the positioning truth for [product]. Canvas is at [path or paste]. Current stage: [draft/alpha/beta/GA].
Reconcile our positioning canvas against the claims ledger — which differentiators can we defend today, and which are [needs source]?
Our onlyness statement is "[current statement]". Does it hold against the named alternatives AND survive the stage + claims check?
Skill Contract
Expected output: a differentiation truth set — the defensible differentiators, each with claim ID, stage scope, source ref, observation time/window, evidence label, conflict/missing state; the onlyness statement re-tested against named alternatives shippable reality; a stage-truth reconciliation note; the claims routed to candidates; and the standard handoff summary.
