positioning-truth-tracer

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.