| name | Sensory Double-Tap |
| description | Reinforce the load-bearing beats of an approved draft through a second sensory channel — visual cue, demo, diagram, or concrete example — bounded by what the target medium can carry. Use when a draft spine is approved and you are adding visuals or demonstrations; not for writing the draft or the opening hook. |
| skill_type | strategy |
| altitude | task |
| activation | progressive |
| parent_id | content_creation_pipeline |
| depth | 1 |
| preserve_markdown | true |
| legacy_paths | ["sensory-double-tap","marketing-and-content.sensory-double-tap.skill"] |
| path | apps/web/src/lib/services/agentic-chat/tools/skills/definitions/sensory_double_tap/SKILL.md |
Sensory Double-Tap
Identity
People understand and retain an idea better when it arrives twice through two channels — said and shown, claimed and demonstrated. This skill takes an approved draft and reinforces its key beats with a second channel, bounded by what the medium can actually carry. It is enhancement, not rewriting: the spine does not change.
This is a strategy skill at task altitude — the second-channel-reinforcement lens in the Enhance stage of the content_creation_pipeline family. Its weight lives in the double-tap principle and the medium boundary (Judgment); the ordered enhancement pass (Procedure) is a secondary shape it also carries.
Activation
- A draft spine is approved and you are adding imagery, demos, diagrams, or concrete examples.
- The user says "make this hit harder", "what should I show here", "add visuals", or "storyboard the cues".
- A piece reads as all-telling with nothing to see or demonstrate.
Do not use for: writing the draft (return to content_creation_pipeline Stage 4); the opening hook specifically (hook_craft_short_form); or narrative restructuring (story_driven_content_craft).
Judgment
Precondition
The spine must be approved. Do not double-tap an unapproved or still-changing draft — the cues will be wasted when the spine moves.
The Principle
For each load-bearing beat (the few that carry the idea — not every sentence), ask: what is the other channel that drives this home? Then mark a cue, do not rewrite the line.
| Primary channel | Double-tap with |
|---|
| A spoken claim (video) | an on-screen visual / demo at that moment |
| A written claim (post, blog) | a concrete example, image, or diagram at that line |
| A stat or abstraction | a specific instance that makes it real |
| A concept | an analogy or a picture the reader can see |
Thresholds (replace judgment with lookup)
- Reinforce 2–4 beats per piece. Fewer than 2 and the enhancement adds nothing; more than 4 and emphasis flattens.
- Each cue is one annotation, not a paragraph — name the channel and the content (
[VISUAL: …], , ).
