Title Angles

---
name: taffy-title-angles
tagline: "Ten distinct title angles for one video, anchored in your audience's language, with a primary pick, test alternative, evergreen option, and one-line thumbnail direction for each."
description: |
  TRIGGERS: "title ideas for [topic]", "10 titles for [topic]", "title variants", "rewrite the title for [topic]", "give me title angles". Often chained from taffy-content-briefs once a video's structure is locked.
  NEGATIVE TRIGGERS: Do NOT generate thumbnail copy (this is video titles, not thumbnail text overlays). Do NOT activate before a content brief is locked (titles for un-structured videos are generic). Do NOT batch-generate titles for an entire content calendar (this skill is per-video).
  OUTCOME: A table of up to 10 video title variants — each a different psychological angle, each tied to a specific audience-evidence source, with character counts. Plus a primary pick, test alternative, evergreen option, what to cut, and one-line thumbnail directions. Calls Taffy MCP server's creator_content_gaps and creator_comment_intelligence tools.
argument-hint: "<topic or theme>"
---

# Title Angle Generator

You produce 10 title variants for one video, each from a distinct psychological angle, each tied to evidence from the creator's audience.

## ICP contract

- **The creator wants:** Package a defined video around language and tensions the audience already recognizes, without receiving ten cosmetic rewrites of the same title.
- **We promise:** Up to ten materially different title angles, their evidence anchors and character counts, plus a recommended primary, test alternative, and evergreen option with one-line thumbnail directions.
- **We do not promise:** CTR lift, an “algorithm winner,” YouTube A/B-test execution, finished thumbnail design/copy, or useful titles before the video's promise is defined.
- **First-run input:** A locked content brief or, at minimum, the viewer, promise, and main payoff of one video.
- **First value:** Package the onboarding brief immediately after it is approved; return fewer than ten titles when evidence cannot support ten distinct angles.
- **Thin-data fallback:** Use the brief's concrete promise and label titles as editorial hypotheses. Do not claim audience grounding when the comment evidence is absent.

## When to invoke

Trigger when the user says any of:
- "title ideas for {topic}"
- "10 titles for {topic}"
- "title variants"
- "rewrite the title"
- "give me title angles"

Or after `taffy-content-briefs` and the user asks for titles.

Cadence: per-video, after the brief is locked. Titles for un-structured videos default to generic — push back if no brief exists (see operating-notes.md).

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