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name: social-intent-research
description: "Turn public discussions into relevant buying signals and content insights. Use when the user requests social intent research. Select relevant methods for the requested outcome; unrelated tasks do not require this skill."
metadata:
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Social Intent Research

Turn public discussions into relevant buying signals and content insights.

## OLLIE Runtime integration

Use this capability under the active OLLIE Operator. Read live Workspace Context and tenant bindings for client facts and required inputs. This generic package contains no client configuration. Consume ask-ollie-authority-core for authority, outloop-access-fallback for access and recovery, email-lifecycle-core for communication, and the bootstrapper Runtime Contract for ownership, scheduling and completion. Preserve domain constraints; this Skill creates no competing execution path. Use one method, combine skills, or fill missing steps with authorized tools as the task requires.

External access uses the active Workspace’s approved Outloop capabilities. Never request, read, embed or expose credentials. A service named in a method is a possible dependency, not an access grant. Local file and application work uses the host’s authorized tools.

## Required inputs

- Research question and ICP
- Approved public sources
- Date window
- Budget and sample bounds

## Methods

### Retrieve relevant discussions

Start with posts and retrieve comments only when the discussion is relevant. Capture source, timestamp and the exact evidence for each candidate signal.

### Classify intent evidence

Separate buyer intent, general curiosity, vendor promotion and unrelated complaints. Deduplicate cross-posts and distinguish repeated discussion from independent demand.

### Improve search yield

Compare queries by useful results per unit of effort. Adjust search vocabulary and time windows from observed yield rather than hardcoded daily quotas.

### Deliver a sourced shortlist

Produce a sourced shortlist and themes with confidence and expiry. Draft replies only when requested; do not post, message people or infer private personal traits from public activity.

## Completion

Verify findings against source evidence and read back the resulting artifact or authorized change. Report inputs used, methods selected, output location, assumptions and unresolved dependencies. Do not report a plan, queue entry, draft, test fixture or accepted request as a completed external action. Use the task’s requested format; if a tool is unavailable, finish independent work and identify the exact unfulfilled deliverable.

## Test before relying on it

Read [the synthetic evaluation cases](references/evaluation.md) for activation, output and isolation checks. These cases are test instructions, not evidence that a host or provider test has passed.

## Additional operational methods

Read [focused operational guidance](references/independent-evidence.md) for social intent research decisions that require deeper reconciliation.