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name: recap
description: Report what the user's posts and comments did (impressions, reactions, comments, followers, who engaged), attach the numbers to the stories and lanes that produced them, and give one concrete recommendation. Use for "how did my post do", "daily recap", "weekly numbers", "who's engaging with me", and as the nightly scheduled task. Reads LinkedIn analytics and X analytics through the user's browser.
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# Recap

The paid product's recap was "Today, 131 saw my content and 2 reacted." Numbers without a decision are noise. A recap here has three parts: what changed, who showed up, one thing to do.

## 1. Reconcile the ledger with the platform, then pull

The ledger only knows what went through `publish`. People post by hand, from their phone, from another tool; the first three weeks of real use had a post missing from the ledger the night after it went up, and the cadence check then undercounted. Start with `stanley-vault drafts-due`: scheduled drafts whose time has passed and that have no ledger row. For each, find the live post on the activity page by its first line and add it with the ready-made `post-add --from-meta … --via reconciled` command the tool prints, so the lane, shape and experiment tags come from the draft instead of being guessed. Then the general sweep: the first browser action of every recap is the user's activity page (`/in/<handle>/recent-activity/all/`; X: `x.com/<handle>`): every own post newer than the ledger's newest that is not in `ledger/posts.jsonl` gets `post-add --via reconciled` with its text, date (from the activity id: `epoch_ms(id >> 22)`) and `--image` if it carries one; every repost gets `post-add --kind repost` so presence is counted without polluting the shape statistics (`stanley-stats` ignores reposts). Say in the report how many posts were reconciled; more than zero means the user is publishing around the plugin, which is fine, but the ledger has to know.

## 1a. Pull

Through the browser: LinkedIn post analytics for every post in `ledger/posts.jsonl` younger than 7 days (impressions, unique members, reactions, comments, reposts, saves if shown), profile follower count, and the notifications page for new comments/replies. X: post analytics (views, likes, replies, bookmarks, profile visits) and follower count. If analytics are unavailable in a remote run, report what the ledger has and say so.

Write the pulled metrics into the ledger: `skills/stanley/scripts/stanley-vault metrics-add --url <post url> --bucket 1h|24h|7d --impressions N --reactions N --comments N --reposts N [--saves N]`. Then run `skills/stanley/scripts/stanley-stats --vault <vault>` (add `--platform`): it prints the median, lifts by lane / shape / hook feature, the top and bottom posts, and the status of every experiment declared in `strategy.md`. Read its warnings literally: under 8 posts per arm it says "directional only", and so should you.

## 2. What changed (three lines max)

Only deltas: which post moved, versus the median in `strategy.md`; new comments that need a reply (with the commenter's name and the comment's first line); follower delta over 24h and 7d.

## 2b. Conversations you are in

Two places, both every run. (a) Comments on the user's own posts: the notifications page plus each post younger than 7 days. (b) Replies to comments the user left on other people's posts: `ledger/comments.jsonl` for the last 7 days, and LinkedIn `/in/<handle>/recent-activity/comments/` (X: `x.com/<handle>/with_replies`) for anything the ledger missed; open each thread and look for replies under the user's comment. The first recap only checked (a) and left a reply from a founder unanswered for a day; the user had to ask.

For every substantive reply or comment (a question, a disagreement, someone describing what they built, anything longer than a thank-you), draft the response and hand it over paste-ready; skip reactions and one-word replies. The register is a conversation, not a post: it is fine to open with "Yeah" or "Thanks"; no benchmark numbers, receipts or story lessons unless the person asked for them; no closing question by default. When the person is building something adjacent to the user's work, offer the next step (a call or DM) in plain words. Audit with `stanley-audit --platform comment`, then wait for a yes; post through the browser and `comment-add` with `--reply-to <url>`. Record the draft→final diff when the user rewrites it; the first such diff taught the plugin the paragraph above.

## 3. Who showed up

People who engaged twice or more in the window, with what they do (from their headline) and which post they reacted to. This feeds the monthly Orbit ritual. Never suggest engaging with them unless there's an actual thread to reply to.

## 3b. Cadence before shape

Before any recommendation about shapes or lanes, compare own posts (kind `post`, after the reconcile step above) published in the last 14 days with the cadence in `strategy.md`; report reposts separately. If the ledger shows fewer than half the planned posts, the recommendation is about publishing — which draft in `drafts/` is closest to ready, what is blocking it — not about which shape works. Three weeks of runs that produced drafts and two published posts is a publishing problem, and no amount of shape analysis fixes it.

When reading a post page, record the reaction breakdown (hover the reaction count: like, celebrate, support, love, insight, funny) with `metrics-add --insight N --like N ...`. Insight share is the best predictor of reposts in the 226K study and a like share above ~85% means people scrolled past; `stanley-stats` reports both once a few posts carry them.

## 4. The one recommendation

Pick one, with evidence from `stanley-stats`, never from memory. A lift on fewer than 3 posts (the table marks them `n<3: not a signal`) is not evidence for or against a shape; say "one post, no read" rather than calling a shape the user's worst. Examples: reply to X's comment now; the number-in-hook posts are running 3x, do another; you haven't posted in 9 days and the streak matters less than the compounding; the X account has 5 followers, so comments on larger accounts matter more than original posts there this month. When two posts in the same lane are underperforming, say the lane may be wrong, not the timing.

## 4b. The share card (opt-in, weekly)

If `strategy.md` has `share_card: yes`, the Sunday recap renders one card from the ledger with `stanley-chart --kind bars`: the week's posts ranked by impressions, the title stating the week's number ("11,204 people saw my posts this week, 3 posts"), and the source line "made with Open Stanley · github.com/Harmix/open-stanley". Hand it to the user with a two-line draft in their voice; they post it or not. Never without the opt-in, never with a number not read from the platform this week, and the card is cleaned (`image-clean`) before upload. This is the loop the paid tools do not have: a user's own numbers, shareable, with the tool named once.

## 4c. Milestones

`strategy.md` may list `milestones: 50000, 100000, 250000` (90-day impressions, from the analytics page the recap already reads) and `milestone_lane: <lane>`. The night the 90-day number crosses one, say so first, screenshot the analytics page (the receipt), and draft the milestone post through `write`: what the number is, what the plugin did and did not do, the one lesson, the link in the first comment, and the screenshot cleaned (`image-clean`) as the image. Mark the milestone done in `strategy.md` so it fires once.

## 5. Weekly and monthly

Weekly (Sunday): same shape over 7 days, plus the `stanley-stats` experiment table. When an experiment reaches `min_n` per arm, state the result in one line and move it to "Resolved bets" in `strategy.md` with the numbers and date; propose the next experiment (one at a time, alternating variants post by post). This is the whole experimentation method: declare, alternate, wait for n, resolve, write it down. Monthly: rewrite the "what good looks like" section of `strategy.md` with the new median and top three, and hand the orbit list to `rituals`.

Keep the whole message under 12 lines. If nothing was posted and nothing moved, say that in one line and give the one recommendation anyway.