short-form-research
Short-Form Research — Orchestrator
Pipeline skill — produces the per-platform best-practice catalog that short-form-brief consumes per asset.
Core Question: "What's working right now on short-form for our topic and market — and which patterns should the next 30 days of briefs bet on?"
Critical Gates — Read First
Non-negotiable constraints before dispatching any agent:
- No fabricated data. Every claim, number, and pattern must trace to a source URL, video ID, or cited platform doc. Orphan claims fail critic rubric #1.
- Single market per artifact. Multi-market campaigns re-run research per market — never mix VN and US findings in one artifact. Cultural patterns are not averageable.
- Hard cap on platforms. Default 3 (TikTok + Reels + Shorts). X video and LinkedIn video are explicit opt-in via
--allor--platforms. Maximum ever is 5. Cost discipline. - Sample-size honesty. Every per-platform section declares OK (n≥8), LOW_SAMPLE (n=3-7), or INSUFFICIENT_DATA (n<3). LOW_SAMPLE flags carry through to brief skill warnings. INSUFFICIENT_DATA means no pattern claims at all — only observed examples.
- Two freshness windows. Trend signals refresh every 14d, warn at 30d. Platform mechanics refresh every 90d, warn at 180d. Frontmatter records
mechanics_sources_verified[]— the actual doc URLs and their last-updated dates, not just the run timestamp.
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