content-factory

1# COG Content Factory Skill
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3## Purpose
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5Act as the user's autonomous content creator: scout what just happened in their field, pick what is genuinely trending, and turn it into content in their voice — with zero duplicates, hard volume caps, and verification before anything counts as published. Designed to run unattended on a schedule (nightly) and to be safely re-runnable: **an empty run is a valid run; a low-quality post is not.**
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7## When to Invoke
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9- `/content-factory` / "run the content factory"
10- Scheduled runs (e.g. 2-4 times a night via cron/launchd)
11- "Turn today's news into content"
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13## Prerequisites
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15Reads the user's voice and beats from `00-inbox/MY-PROFILE.md` and topics from `00-inbox/MY-INTERESTS.md`. Publishing targets come from `00-inbox/MY-INTEGRATIONS.md` — skip disabled channels silently.
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17## State Files (read FIRST, update LAST — this is the dedup backbone)
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19- `04-projects/content-factory/ledger.md` — everything ever covered/published (topic slug, source URL, formats, links, date). NEVER cover a topic or source URL already in the ledger unless there is genuinely NEW news (a follow-up release counts; rephrasing the same launch does not).
20- `04-projects/content-factory/tonight-<YYYY-MM-DD>.md` — tonight's run log (create on first run of the night). Records what earlier runs scouted, parked, produced, and published, plus the remaining volume budget.
21- `04-projects/content-factory/sources.md` — the watchlist. Add sources you find valuable; prune dead ones.
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