positioning-truth-tracer

positioning-truth-tracer is a skill for Claude Code from aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills. It costs 148 tokens per session (3,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A check that compares the differences your positioning claims with what the product can currently deliver and what your evidence actually supports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reconcile a positioning document with product capabilities and an evidence record, labelling each differentiator by its level of support.
Why use it?
It separates defensible differences from aspirations or unsupported claims, reducing the risk of promising something you cannot prove or ship.

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 reconcile a positioning document with product capabilities and an evidence record, labelling each differentiator by its level of support.

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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/positioning-truth-tracer

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 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,193 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 $0.00148 $0.03193
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.01597
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00639
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00319

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8b9d67161c6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

positioning-truth-tracer 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/positioning-truth-tracer/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

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]?

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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 · 89 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 8b9d67161c6b

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positioning-truth-tracer 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 148 tokens to every session and 3,193 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.