category-narrative-mapper
Use when the user asks to "map the category narrative", "tear down how competitors tell their story", or "find the language conventions in our market"; produces a category narrative map — the dominant stories and points of view in the category, its language conventions and framing clichés, and a per-competitor narrative teardown (arc, claimed onlyness, proof pattern) plus how each rival''s messaging has shifted over time (scraped copy vs archived copy). Not for the positioning canvas itself — use positioning-mapper; not for the beachhead''s beliefs and objections — use audience-belief-mapper;
npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill category-narrative-mapper --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Category Narrative Mapper Maps the narrative landscape of the category — the dominant stories and points of view rivals tell, the language conventions and framing clichés everyone reaches for, and a per-competitor narrative teardown (each rival's arc, its claimed onlyness, its proof pattern) together with how that messaging has shifted over time (today's scraped copy against archived copy). It is the second move of the TALE **Trace** phase and feeds the [TALE](../../../references/tale-benchmark.md)-`T` (Truth) dimension directly: the *category frame chosen and defensible* sub-item (you cannot claim "the only \[frame\] that…" without knowing what frames the category already recognizes) and the *competitive alternatives named from win-loss and interviews, not a vendor feature matrix* sub-item — it supplies the narrative half of the named-alternatives set the `T1` differentiation veto is later judged against. It never scores; only [narrative-quality-auditor](../../evaluate/narrative-quality-auditor/SKILL.md) computes the TALE profile result. **Scope guard**: this skill produces the category narrative map *document* only. It does **not** build the positioning canvas or the onlyness s
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What does the category-narrative-mapper skill do?
Use when the user asks to "map the category narrative", "tear down how competitors tell their story", or "find the language conventions in our market"; produces a category narrative map — the dominant stories and points of view in the category, its language conventions and framing clichés, and a per-competitor narrative teardown (arc, claimed onlyness, proof pattern) plus how each rival''s messaging has shifted over time (scraped copy vs archived copy). Not for the positioning canvas itself — use positioning-mapper; not for the beachhead''s beliefs and objections — use audience-belief-mapper;
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills --skill category-narrative-mapper --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills, a repository with 2,508 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.