| name | kelly-creators |
| description | Personal App-in-Skill command desk for influencer/creator marketing — the agent sweeps and fit-scores creator candidates, drafts outreach and briefs, and gates content before it ships; the human reviews creator cards, approves outreach/briefs/contracts, and tracks campaign ROI in a local review dashboard. Use when the user invokes $kelly-creators or /kelly-creators, mentions influencer or creator marketing, creator discovery, fit scoring, outreach DMs, campaign briefs, UGC, sponsorship or partnership deals, content review / FTC disclosure gating, or campaign ROI, or wants to review/approve agent-drafted creator outreach before it is sent through other channels. |
Kelly Creators
Overview
Use this skill as Kelly's personal influencer/creator-marketing operator. It keeps a file-backed App-in-Skill dashboard over creator candidates, outreach drafts, campaign briefs, and ROI, plus a review queue of agent-drafted outreach and pre-publication content gates. The skill sweeps candidates from whatever Kelly feeds it — a niche, a brand brief, a competitor's creators, an exported list — scores fit, drafts outreach and briefs, and executes approved sends only through other channels (for example instagram-outreach or kelly-email) after explicit approval.
An item is a creator engagement: handle, platform, followers, engagement_rate, fit_score, niche, est_rate, proposed_action, suggested_reply, and the standard status/decision/execution blocks. A second item type is a quality gate on a live creator's draft post.
Default interaction mode: App UI. Unless the user explicitly asks for chat-only handling, check onboarding/config, refresh or regenerate the local creator snapshot, start/reuse the local app with app/start.sh, and give the actual local URL. Use chat-only mode only when the user says "纯聊天", "chat only", "不要打开 UI", or similar; in that mode present numbered creators (#1) and take verdicts in the conversation.
Philosophy
This skill is an App-in-Skill: a Codex/agent skill paired with a small local companion UI. The skill does the real work (external reads, reasoning, drafting, executing approved sends); the app is a quiet local operator surface that reads and writes local files only and never performs an external side effect. See the App-in-Skill specification paper: https://mr-kelly.github.io/research/app-in-skill-specification-for-pairing-agent-skills-with-a-local-companion-ui.pdf.
The domain follows the four-phase influencer-marketing discipline — Discover → Plan → Activate → Measure — used both as the pipeline funnel and as a phase facet on every item. Human clicks are reserved for judgment, edits, exceptions, and irreversible or money/contract actions.
Capabilities (Discover / Plan / Activate / Measure)
The agent covers sixteen sub-skills, grouped by phase. Each generated item is tagged with its phase so the desk always shows where the program stands.
- Discover —
audience-mapper (who the brand's buyers are), trend-spotter (rising formats/sounds/topics), influencer-discovery (sweep candidate creators), fit-scorer (the objective C³ ACE match score).
- Plan —
competitor-tracker (which creators competitors use), campaign-planner (goals, mix, timeline), brief-generator (creative brief per creator), budget-optimizer (allocate spend across the roster).
- Activate —
outreach-manager (draft and track outreach DMs/emails), content-reviewer (the pre-publication SHIP/FIX/BLOCK quality gate), contract-helper (terms, usage rights, exclusivity), content-amplifier (whitelisting/boosting approved posts).
- Measure —
landing-optimizer (post-click experience), performance-analyzer (reach/engagement/conversion), roi-calculator (spend → estimated value, CPM, ROI), report-generator (campaign wrap-ups).
Fit score — C³ ACE
fit_score (0-100) is the objective matching score: Content × Community × Credibility crossed with Audience × Cost × Engagement. fit_breakdown carries the six sub-scores shown in creator detail. Prefer fit over raw follower count when ranking candidates.
Content-reviewer quality gate
Before a live creator's post publishes, the agent runs a content-reviewer gate that outputs SHIP / FIX / BLOCK over ftc_disclosure (is #ad disclosed above the fold?) and claim_authenticity (are product claims supportable, no cure/medical overreach?), plus brand_safety. A fix or block verdict is surfaced in the outreach queue for a human decision. This gate is item_type: "quality_gate" with gate_verdict and gate_checks.
App UI Screenshots
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Overview Pipeline funnel across the four phases, budget allocation, total reach, and the top fit-scored candidates. | Creators Sortable candidate cards with C³ ACE fit scores, platform, niche, and audience size. |
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Outreach Needs-review approval queue with editable outreach drafts and the FTC/claim disclosure gate. | ROI Per-creator spend, estimated value, CPM, and return once a partnership goes live. |
Boundary
- The skill may read sources Kelly provides, sweep and score creators, draft outreach/briefs/contracts, run content gates, validate schemas, and write local handoff files.
- The app reads and writes local files only. It must never send DMs or emails, call platform APIs, post content, or perform any external side effect.
- Outbound outreach, briefs, and contracts are always approval-required. Sending is delegated to other skills (for example
instagram-outreach, tiktok-outreach, kelly-email) and happens only after the user approves the specific item. scripts/execute_decisions.ts only records handoff operations in execution_report.json; it performs no sending itself.
- Treat money and contract terms (rates, usage rights, exclusivity) as sensitive and approval-required. Do not commit
config.local.json, env files, app/.data/, exports, or creator contact details.
First Run And Onboarding
On invocation, check app/.data/onboarding.json and private config readiness. If onboarding is absent/incomplete, guide setup before doing real creator work.
Private config priority:
KELLY_CREATORS_CONFIG=/absolute/path/to/config.json
skills/kelly-creators/config.local.json
~/.config/kelly-creators/config.json
skills/kelly-creators/config.example.json as template only
Env priority:
- Existing environment variables
KELLY_CREATORS_ENV_FILE=/absolute/path/to/.env
- Repository root
.env
skills/kelly-creators/.env.local
~/.config/kelly-creators/.env
Ask for non-secret setup details only: operator profile (name, role, company, timezone), brand(s) and positioning, target niches, program budget and base currency, outreach platforms and which skill handles each, style/tone for drafts, risk keywords (money/contract), and which env var names hold platform tokens. Never ask the user to paste secret values into chat.
When setup is complete and the user confirms, write app/.data/onboarding.json:
{ "completed": true, "completed_at": "ISO timestamp", "config_version": "1" }
Local App
Start the dashboard with:
skills/kelly-creators/app/start.sh
The app uses local HTTP on 127.0.0.1, preferring port 3200 through 3999, or KELLY_CREATORS_UI_PORT when set. The launcher reuses a running instance only when /api/state proves it is the same app (app: "kelly-creators").
Required app views:
#/overview: command desk. Human-attention counts, the discovery → outreach → negotiating → live → measured funnel (tagged by phase), budget allocation, total reach, and top candidates by fit.
#/creators and #/creators/<creator_id>: candidate cards with fit score, platform, niche, followers, engagement rate, and rate — sortable by fit / followers / engagement / cost. Detail shows the C³ ACE breakdown, the outreach draft (or the quality-gate checks), and the full engagement record.
#/outreach: review queue over agent-drafted outreach and content gates in workflow states needs_review, changes_requested, approved, done, blocked. Each item shows a stable row ref (#1), fit score, phase/risk badges, an editable suggested_reply draft, a Review note textarea, and decision buttons Approve / Request changes / Block that write to decisions.json. The queue is read-only while agent.lock exists.
#/roi: per-creator spend, estimated value, CPM, and ROI.
#/settings: sanitized config summary. Operator profile, brand(s), program budget and target niches, configured platforms, env readiness booleans, data provider name, and onboarding state. Never expose secret values.
Demo mode:
?demo=1 opens a deterministic mock program for documentation and screenshots.
?demo=overview, ?demo=creators, ?demo=outreach, ?demo=roi, and ?demo=detail select named mock scenes; detail deep-links to a creator detail.
lang=en or lang=zh forces UI chrome language for screenshots.
- Demo API responses must never read or write files under
app/.data/ or any private config. All handles are invented.
UI language: support English and Chinese chrome with Auto default. Keep creator names, handles, notes, and drafts in their original language.
File Contract
Read references/creators-schema.md before editing the app, scripts, or any generated creator JSON.
Primary local files:
app/.data/creator_snapshot.json: normalized creator snapshot (creators, metrics, funnel, warnings) generated by the skill/scripts.
app/.data/decisions.json: user verdicts and review notes keyed by creator_id, written by the app.
app/.data/agent_tasks.json: queued agent work — engagements in changes_requested with the user's comment. The skill polls this to pick up revisions.
app/.data/execution_report.json: latest handoff/execution results written by scripts/execute_decisions.ts.
app/.data/onboarding.json: onboarding completion marker.
app/.data/agent.lock: temporary lock while the skill is generating or executing. The app rejects decision writes while it exists.
config.local.json: private operator configuration, ignored by git.
Use scripts/validate_ui_schema.ts before relying on a snapshot in the UI. The app may show an empty setup state when no snapshot exists.
Normal Workflow
- Detect mode. Default to App UI.
- Load private config through the config helpers. If only
config.example.json exists, enter onboarding.
- Discover/Plan: when Kelly feeds a niche, brand brief, competitor, or candidate list: acquire
app/.data/agent.lock, update creator_snapshot.json — upsert creators by stable ids, compute the C³ ACE fit_score and fit_breakdown, set stage/phase, draft suggested_reply outreach or briefs with status: "needs_review", add money/contract risk badges and est_rate, recompute metrics — validate with scripts/validate_ui_schema.ts, then release the lock.
- Start/reuse the UI and report the URL so Kelly can review the funnel, the candidate cards, and the outreach queue.
- Poll
app/.data/agent_tasks.json for changes_requested items. Re-draft each per the user's comment, set it back to needs_review, and clear the task.
- Activate: on "execute" / "send approved outreach": re-read
decisions.json, re-check the lock, and run scripts/execute_decisions.ts --apply to record send_outreach / send_brief / draft_contract operations in execution_report.json. Then perform the actual sends only through the corresponding skill with the approved, possibly user-edited draft, one item at a time, and mark each done afterwards. Run the content-reviewer gate on live drafts and surface FIX/BLOCK verdicts for approval.
- Measure: as campaigns go live and complete, update
spend, est_value, and cpm and move engagements to measured; summarize ROI in the #/roi view.
- Never send anything for items without an explicit
approve decision, and never re-send items already marked done in the execution report.
Safety Defaults
- Treat every outbound message, brief, contract, rate commitment, usage-rights term, and exclusivity clause as approval-required.
- Never publish or approve a live post that fails the
content-reviewer gate (missing FTC disclosure or unsupportable claims) without a human decision.
- Store only the minimum creator content needed for review; keep raw scraped data and platform exports out of the snapshot.
- Redact tokens and credential-like strings from logs, reports, and UI state; expose only boolean readiness for configured env vars.
- Keep stable ids (
creator_id) and ref numbers so repeated updates and executions are idempotent.
- If decisions and the snapshot disagree (missing creator, stale ref), stop and regenerate rather than guessing.