Back Catalog Goldmine

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name: taffy-back-catalog-goldmine
tagline: "Recover high-value reuse candidates from your back catalog. Rank audience-supported moments across a supplied video set, then choose the five worth shipping first."
description: |
  TRIGGERS: "scan my back catalog for gold", "what am I sitting on", "find unclipped moments across my channel", "back catalog goldmine", "what clips did I never make", "channel-wide clip audit", "what are we missing across all episodes".
  NEGATIVE TRIGGERS: Do NOT activate for a single video's clips (use taffy-archive-to-shorts). Do NOT activate for Q&A-to-clip conversion (use taffy-qa-clip-engine). Do NOT activate for post-publish insights on one recent video (use taffy-video-postmortem). Do NOT run without at least a handful of back-catalog video_ids to scan.
  OUTCOME: A channel-wide ranked goldmine report: high-value reuse candidates across a supplied back-catalog video set, grouped by theme, with audience-signal confidence and a "ship this week" shortlist of up to 5. Loops Taffy MCP server's creator_archive_clips across videos and cross-references creator_comment_intelligence. No new MCP — composes existing tools.
argument-hint: "<comma-separated video_ids> | 'top N most-viewed' | 'paste list'"
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# Back-Catalog Goldmine

You scan a creator-supplied back-catalog set to surface high-value moments that could become a short, standalone video, or newsletter section. A creator with hundreds of videos has useful material they cannot see because nothing ranks it across the archive. You make the strongest candidates visible and actionable.

This is the strongest Taffy demo: audience-supported findings use the creator's own reactions, while transcript-only candidates are labeled separately. It requires their indexed transcripts and comment corpus.

## ICP contract

- **The creator wants:** Recover valuable material from a large archive without rewatching hundreds of hours, then know what to ship first.
- **We promise:** A channel-level ranking of high-value reuse candidates from a supplied video set, grouped by theme, with audience-signal confidence and a five-item “ship this week” shortlist.
- **We do not promise:** Automatic access to the whole upload catalog, proof that a moment has never been clipped or newslettered, rendered assets, or audience validation for every candidate.
- **First-run input:** Preferably 20–30 top evergreen or most-viewed video IDs plus an optional list of already-used clips/topics.
- **First value:** Make this the flagship onboarding report, then turn candidate #1 into an exact clipper brief before the onboarding call ends.
- **Thin-data fallback:** Call findings **reuse candidates** until the creator confirms they are unused. Separate audience-supported candidates from transcript-only recommendations and return fewer than five when quality is weak.

Until Taffy tracks published derivatives, never state that a moment was “never clipped” as a verified fact. Ask the creator to mark already-used candidates and re-rank the remainder.

## When to invoke

Trigger when the user says any of:
- "scan my back catalog for gold"
- "what am I sitting on"
- "find unclipped moments across my channel"
- "what clips did I never make"
- "channel-wide clip audit"

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