category-narrative-mapper

category-narrative-mapper is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 174 tokens per session (3,012 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A market-messaging analysis that maps the main stories competitors tell, the language they share, and how their positioning has changed over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare competitor narratives, identify framing clichés, and document each rival’s central message, claimed difference, evidence pattern, and changes in messaging.
Why use it?
It shows which ideas and phrases your market already recognises, so you can choose a distinct and defensible story instead of copying familiar wording.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Emit the standard shape from [skill-contract.md §Handoff Summary Format](../../../references/skill-contract.md)..

Part of the aaron-marketing plugin — 120 skills shipped together , and of aaron-marketing

Good fit Use it to compare competitor narratives, identify framing clichés, and document each rival’s central message, claimed difference, evidence pattern, and changes in messaging.

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About the project

aaron-marketing-skills is a collection of 120 AI-agent skills covering marketing work such as brand narrative, search optimization, social media, email, advertising, influencer campaigns, and launches. Marketers and agent users can install it as a plugin, use its portable skills, or run its described bot team. The catalogue entries are components of this marketing workflow.

aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills · 2,767 stars · on GitHub · aaronmarketing.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills/category-narrative-mapper

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aaron-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 120 skills.

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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,012 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 2 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00174 $0.03012
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.01506
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00301

Measured 9d ago against content hash e2fa86d238f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

category-narrative-mapper scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

narrative/trace/category-narrative-mapper/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Category Narrative Mapper

Maps the narrative landscape of the category — the dominant stories and points of view rivals tell, the language conventions and framing clichés everyone reaches for, and a per-competitor narrative teardown (each rival's arc, its claimed onlyness, its proof pattern) together with how that messaging has shifted over time (today's scraped copy against archived copy). It is the second move of the TALE Trace phase and feeds the TALE-T (Truth) dimension directly: the category frame chosen and defensible sub-item (you cannot claim "the only [frame] that…" without knowing what frames the category already recognizes) and the competitive alternatives named from win-loss and interviews, not a vendor feature matrix sub-item — it supplies the narrative half of the named-alternatives set the T1 differentiation veto is later judged against. It never scores; only narrative-quality-auditor computes the TALE profile result.

Scope guard: this skill produces the category narrative map document only. It does not build the positioning canvas or the onlyness statement (reuse positioning-mapper), capture the beachhead's beliefs, objections, or switching forces (that is audience-belief-mapper), do SERP keyword or ranking work (keyword-research), reconcile positioning against the claims ledger (positioning-truth-tracer), adjudicate any product or comparative claim (offer-claims-registry is the sole writer of memory/claims/claims-ledger.md), or compute the TALE profile result. It works one lever — the category's narrative terrain — and hands off.

Quick Start

Map the category narrative for [product / category]. Competitors: [names or "help me find them"].

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A e2fa86d238f6

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category-narrative-mapper is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills (2,767 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 3,012 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.