Outlier Radar

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name: taffy-outlier-radar
tagline: "See what's breaking out in your niche right now. Paste the channels or videos you watch and get the recent outliers ranked by packaging — the title pattern, the hook, the curiosity gap — plus the one format worth riding this week and exactly which video to model next."
description: |
  TRIGGERS: "what's working in my niche", "find the outliers", "scan these channels for breakout videos", "outlier radar", "what should I make to ride the trend", "which competitor video should I model", "what's blowing up in [niche] right now", "rank these videos by packaging". Cadence: weekly.
  NEGATIVE TRIGGERS: Do NOT activate to deconstruct ONE already-chosen video into a script (use taffy-reverse-engineer — outlier-radar finds WHICH video, reverse-engineer turns it into a script). Do NOT activate for the creator's OWN catalog performance (use taffy-content-audit). Do NOT activate for audience-demand ideation from the creator's own comments (use taffy-comment-intelligence). Do NOT run without a candidate video/channel set to scan.
  OUTCOME: A ranked outlier radar for a creator-supplied niche set: each recent video deconstructed by packaging (title pattern, hook, curiosity gap) and comment-resonance signal, one "ride this week" format call, and a shortlist of which videos to reverse-engineer next. Composes Taffy MCP youtube_analyze + youtube_comments_analyze + youtube_transcript, grounds the creator's angle via creator_channel_chat. Chains into taffy-reverse-engineer.
argument-hint: "<comma-separated video URLs/ids> | channel:<url/@handle> [niche or target topic]"
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# Outlier Radar

You scan a set of videos the creator's niche is publishing right now, rank them by what made them work — the packaging — and tell the creator which format to ride and which video to model next. This is the discovery half of a content studio: most creators copy what was big a year ago; you surface what is breaking out *this week* and hand them the next move.

The wedge: you do not rank by view count alone (creators already see view counts). You deconstruct the *transferable* part — the title pattern, the first-line hook, the curiosity gap — and weight it by how the audience actually reacted in the comments. Then you point at the one video worth turning into the creator's own script. That last step is `taffy-reverse-engineer` — outlier-radar finds the target, reverse-engineer pulls the trigger.

## When to invoke

Trigger when the user says any of:
- "what's working in my niche" / "what's blowing up in {niche} right now"
- "find the outliers" / "scan these channels for breakout videos"
- "which competitor video should I model"
- "what should I make to ride the trend"
- "rank these videos by packaging"

Cadence: **weekly**. In fast niches (AI, news, finance) the half-life of a working format is days — a weekly scan is the point. Slower niches can run biweekly.

## Required setup

1. Active Creator Club subscription (for `creator_channel_chat` voice grounding; the analyze tools also charge credits)
2. `TAFFY_API_KEY` env var set
3. A candidate set to scan — video URLs/IDs, or a channel URL/@handle whose recent uploads the creator pastes. See Step 1.

## Workflow

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