Use when the user asks to "audit our brand narrative" or "is this message on-canon"; runs separate typed TALE truth, system, or effectiveness profiles and never averages them into one composite. Checks differentiation, canon, landing consistency, and evidence integrity. Not for launch readiness — us

Narrative Quality Auditor Audit narrative truth, message system coherence, or measured effectiveness as separate TALE profiles. There is no v18 overall composite: truth cannot be averaged away by coherence, and coherence cannot stand in for effectiveness evidence. When This Must Trigger The user asks whether positioning/differentiation is defensible. A flagship surface needs a pre publish canon/message match gate. A message experiment or resonance claim needs evidence integrity review. A full narrative review is requested; run linked profiles rather than one blended score. Quick Start Skill Contract Reads: one canon/surface set or message experiment plus current narrative/claims truth. Writes: only permissioned v3 artifacts. Done when: each requested profile is independently complete or its Unknowns are explicit, with no canon, claims, or surface mutation. narrative registry owns canon/version state and offer claims registry owns claims. This skill judges; authoring/fixing belongs to Trace/Architect/Land skills. Data Sources Need Preferred evidence Truth Named alternatives, interviews/win loss, product reality, claims projection Architecture Exact canon/version, message hierarchy, voice/naming/version history Landing Declared rendered flagship surfaces linked to canon version Effectiveness Preregistered comprehension/recall/behavior evidence and locked panels Public resonance Dated own/public signals with explicit measured/proxy provenance Instructions Runtime Reads ../../../references/auditor runbook.md ../../../references/scoring semantics.md ../../../references/tale benchmark.md ../../../references/runtime invocation.md references/auditor runtime.md Runtime and Setup <! GENERATED:BEGIN auditor shared:activation Read the declared root runtime sources and selected framework/catalog entry. Standalone installs use the bundled immutable references/auditor runtime.md ; never fetch mutable main or guess missing policy. Before deterministic calls, follow runtime invocation.md and resolve AARON SKILLS ROOT="${CLAUDE PLUGIN ROOT: $(git rev parse show toplevel 2 /dev/null true)}" . Require the scorer, validator and typed catalogs. If unavailable, collect the selected profile's typed observations and Unknowns, but return score state: NOT SCORED / score confidence: not scored without a gate verdict or persistent artifact. Record the bound schema, runbook and catalog versions. <! GENERATED:END auditor shared:activation Declare target, profile/mode, brand scope, market, audience, canon version, observation date, and evidence window. Profile Procedure truth : score T1–T10 for material differentiation and factual grounding. system : score A1–A10 and L1–L10 for canon coherence and landing consistency. effectiveness : score E1–E10 for one experiment/locked panel/date. full : run the three profiles independently and keep three artifacts/results. Aggregate release language conservatively: any BLOCK → block; otherwise any UNDECIDED → undecided; otherwise any FIX → fix; all SHIP → ship. Never average scores. For a flagship pre publish gate, always execute the system profile procedure and require a compatible current truth result. If no compatible truth result exists, run truth separately when its evidence is available; otherwise record the truth prerequisite as Unknown while still rendering the requested system profile result. A missing scorer/runtime changes that result to NOT SCORED/UNDECIDED ; it does not justify skipping the profile. Run effectiveness separately only when the user requests it or the surface makes an effectiveness claim. Every observed state needs source/date/type/confidence. A missing canon is Unknown, not N/A. A2/A4/A8 are conditional: three pillars, a change arc, and fixed boilerplate lengths are patterns only when deliberately chosen. Run the typed scorer per profile. Verify profile relevant vetoes: TALE T1 false/contradictory/unsubstantiated material differentiation, TALE A1 demonstrated canon contradiction, TALE L1 material flagship/canon contradiction, and TALE E1 unsupported effectiveness claim or proxy as measured. §2 TALE Worked Examples Complete truth profile, raw 86, no veto/fail: DONE/SHIP , final 86. Complete system profile, raw 80, one verified L1 failure: DONE WITH CONCERNS/FIX , final 59. Complete system profile with A1 and L1 failures: DONE/BLOCK , no final score. Effectiveness profile before test results exist: NEEDS INPUT/UNDECIDED , no score. §3 TALE Guardrails A literal “onlyness” sentence is not required; judge the material differentiation actually asserted. Three pillars, a Raskin/change arc, and 25/50/100 word boilerplates are conditional patterns. A governed draft can be audited as a draft; missing access is Unknown, not an A1 failure. Share of voice, sentiment, answer engine descriptions, comprehension, and behavior are distinct constructs. Narrative change frequency is a drift signal, not an automatic veto. §5 TALE Translation Always name truth/system/effectiveness. On trace request, qualify TALE T1/A1/L1/E1 , especially TALE E1 versus ECHO E1 and TALE A1 versus ROAS/RAMP. Report and Verdict <! GENERATED:BEGIN auditor shared:result header Begin with the auditor runbook's exact typed conversation header. Never replace status , verdict , or score state with prose; list each explicitly missing qualified item as ID: unknown before findings. <! GENERATED:END auditor shared:result header For each profile show verdict, target/canon/context/date, score or coverage/interval, confidence, evidence, Unknowns, and fixes. A full report shows three side by side results and no overall number. Do not claim market effectiveness from system coherence. Validation Checkpoints One profile/unit per score; full mode preserves three results. Canon/surface/experiment versions and audience/market are explicit. Conditional templates use N/A only with reason; missing evidence stays Unknown. Current truth/claims projections are read, not candidate files. No canon/claim/surface write or publish action occurred. Persistence Persist only after explicit authorization to memory/audits/narrative/YYYY MM DD <topic <profile .md . Preserve the scorer's orthogonal status and verdict ; validate the complete v3 draft with validate audit artifact.py against the intended relative path, persist only through one full content Write, and revalidate the target per the auditor runbook. Edit/shell/MCP mutations of the reserved sink are unsupported. Never overwrite another profile or update canon/claims/hot cache autonomously. Reference Materials [TALE benchmark](../../../references/tale benchmark.md) [Auditor runbook](../../../references/auditor runbook.md) [Scoring semantics](../../../references/scoring semantics.md) [Measurement protocol](../../../references/measurement protocol.md) Next Best Skill Truth repair: [positioning truth tracer](../../trace/positioning truth tracer/SKILL.md) Architecture repair: [message system architect](../../architect/message system architect/SKILL.md) Landing repair: [narrative cascade planner](../../land/narrative cascade planner/SKILL.md) Effectiveness evidence: [message test designer](../message test designer/SKILL.md)

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