dbs-resonate

A draft-resonance diagnostic for content creators who have finished a piece of writing (a script or half-finished draft) but are unsure whether it will connect with an audience. Using a communication-psychology framework, it diagnoses whether the draft has the structure to resonate, pinpoints the specific problems, and gives concrete, actionable edits. It is aimed especially at the most common failure it names, writing that is comprehensive but fails to strike the core, and is triggered by the /dbs-resonate command or phrasings like "will this resonate" or "check my draft."

Its scope is deliberately bounded: it diagnoses psychological resonance and gives delete/keep/strengthen edits, but it does not predict platform-algorithm metrics like completion or click-through rate (handled by other skills such as /dbs-hook), does not check structural completeness, and does not analyze why already-proven content went viral. The method rests on three tenets: comprehensiveness is not professionalism (precision is), resonance is a structural problem rather than luck, and you must find the core mechanism before judging execution. The workflow extracts every claim in the draft, identifies the single true core (or flags core-unclear as the biggest problem), then runs a five-dimension diagnosis grounded in named theories, the spiral of silence, uses and gratifications, framing, two-step flow, and cognitive consistency, rating each as effective, weak, or ineffective with a reason tied to specific text.

Use it before publishing to catch a diluted or missing core and to get a rewrite direction. The output is a fixed-format report: a one-line core problem, a core-mechanism audit listing all claims and the real core, the five-dimension diagnosis, and specific edits (what to delete, what to compress into supporting detail, what to amplify, what to leave alone), ending with a one-line skeleton of the revised piece. It also documents common failure patterns, diluted core, mechanism stated but unexplained, stance drift, and weak silence-breaking, each with symptom, diagnosis, and fix, and routes to /dbs for next steps.