dbs-content: a Claude skill that diagnoses how to turn a topic into content

• The beliefs the diagnosis is built on

  Clean writing is the floor. Cover and title work on attention, not information. Good content is effort times right understanding. Build the product before the content. A knowledge creator does two jobs: get it clear, then say it clearly.

  Five principles

• Asks for your topic, format and any draft

  Claude asks which topic you chose and which format you plan (post, short video, long video, live stream or article). No topic: it asks for a rough direction. A draft skips ahead to the diagnosis.

  Phase 1: Receive the topic

• Picks a format and platform from the topic's traits

  Opinion topics map to talking-head short video, tool lists to image posts, long arguments to long video or articles, case reviews to posts plus video, and debates to live streams. It covers Xiaohongshu, Douyin, X and WeChat Official Accounts.

  Phase 2: Format and platform match

• Looks for AI-sounding text and filler advice

  Checks for AI tone (emoji piles, obscure words, empty parallel lines), for the "dry goods" trap, and for language others can verify. Result: clean, needs washing, or rewrite.

  Check 1: Writing cleanliness

• Asks if the plain version already pulls people in

  If a plain statement would not attract anyone, value density is too low. It also looks at image versus text covers, font colour and tone, and whether the title carries information or grabs attention.

  Check 2: Cover and title

• Can the core point be said in one sentence?

  Checks for 99% packaging around 1% of content, and whether the content serves product sales or only self-expression.

  Check 3: Expression efficiency

• Does it explain something better than peers do?

  Asks whether peers already made this clear, how yours is better, and whether viewers will think "I know this". Result: clear gap, small gap, or none.

  Check 4: Cognitive gap

• Suggests how to use AI for this kind of content

  Opinion content: think long, shoot fast, no script. Analysis: pull notes, run AI deep searches, rewrite as a script, shoot on camera. Tool content: AI makes the list, you sort it. Style: have AI break down your own writing style.

  Check 5: AI-assisted workflow

• A fixed report with format, five checks and a first step

  The report holds the recommended format and platform with a one-line reason, a five-row diagnosis table, one concrete first action (not advice), and a sharp one-line summary.

  Phase 4: Diagnosis report

• Five canned replies for common mistakes

  For example: worrying over titles (spend the time on something worth saying), asking for "dry goods", blaming AI for low reach, making content with no product, and emotional-growth topics where value is hard to prove.

  Blunt warnings

• Three success cases and two failure cases

  The file quotes the author's own results, such as a cover change that raised views threefold. Each case is tied to one principle. SKILL.md says not to invent quotes beyond these.

  Case library

• Exact like an editor, never a ghostwriter

  Points to specific problems, does not flatter, gives actions over suggestions. It will not write the content, say "either is fine", tell you to watch peers, or discuss what goes viral.

  Style and limits

• What it delivers and what it leaves to others

  With a topic only: the full report. With a topic and draft: the same report, no format matching, no line edits. It does not deliver ghostwriting, line edits, finished titles, covers or openings, traffic forecasts or topic development.

  Hand-off rules

• Offers once, at the end, to save the conclusion

  After the five checks it mentions once that you can say "保存" to keep the result. SKILL.md does not say where or how it is saved.

  Archive on request

• Replies in your language and stops when done

  Chinese in, Chinese out (following the Chinese typesetting guide). English in, English out. If a request is out of scope it names the missing ability in one sentence, and suggests /dbs if that router is installed.

  Language and ending

Watch out for

• The whole-toolkit routes add 34 skills, including an updater

  The README quick start installs the full dbskill set. The plugin file describes it as 34 current skills, 2 deprecated entries and 1 system update entry. The README says saying "更新 dbskill" syncs the official repo, keeps ~/.dbs/ and removes retired skills. The skills CLI --all route installs into every agent it recognises. For dbs-content alone, use the single-skill plugin or the --skill command. github.com

• The archive step does not say where it saves

  After the diagnosis SKILL.md mentions once that you can say "保存" to keep the result. Decline unless you want a file, and check the path Claude uses. github.com