Promote Idea

Your Task

Input: $ARGUMENTS

Convert a Pending idea from IDEAS.md into a full album project in one call. Replaces the manual 3-step workflow (get_ideas → new-album → update_idea) with a single entry point.

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Promote Idea Skill

Step 1: Parse Arguments

Expected formats:

• "" — auto-derive slug from the title
• "" — override the auto-derived slug
• "" documentary — standard slug, documentary flag on
• "" documentary — explicit slug + documentary

Examples:

• "Kleine Welt" → slug auto-derived to kleine-welt
• "The Great Molasses Flood" molasses-flood documentary
• "Ängstliche Kätzchen" → slug angstliche-katzchen (diacritics stripped)

If no arguments are supplied, or the title is empty, list the available pending ideas first and ask which one to promote:

Which idea should I promote?

Pending ideas:
1. Kleine Welt (electronic, Thematic)
2. The Great Molasses Flood (folk, Documentary)
3. Linux Kernel Wars (electronic, Character Study)

Reply with the exact title.

Use get_ideas(status_filter="Pending") to fetch the list.

Step 2: Confirm the Derived Slug

Call get_ideas(status_filter="Pending") (or search(query=idea_title, scope="ideas")) to confirm the idea exists and show the user what's about to happen.

Compute the slug locally for display only (lowercase, strip diacritics, non-alphanumeric → hyphen). If the result looks odd, offer to override:

About to promote:
  Idea:  Kleine Welt
  Slug:  kleine-welt
  Genre: electronic
  Type:  Thematic

Proceed? (Or supply a different slug.)

Skip the confirmation step if the user has already provided an explicit slug — that's the signal they've already thought about it.

Step 3: Ask About Documentary Flag (if not already supplied)

The documentary flag decides whether RESEARCH.md and SOURCES.md are created. This is not derivable from idea metadata — the idea's "Type" field can say "Documentary" but that's a separate concept (narrative shape). Ask once:

> Is this a documentary/true-story album? (Adds research + sources > templates. Answer 'yes' for real-world events, 'no' for fiction.)

Skip this step if documentary is already in the arguments.

Step 4: Promote via MCP

Call promote_idea(idea_title, album_slug=, documentary=).

The tool performs all of:

1. Find the idea in state (error if missing or already promoted)
2. Create the album directory via create_album_structure
3. Inject the idea's concept into the new README.md under a ## Concept

section

1. Advance idea status Pending → In Progress
2. Add **Promoted To**: back-link to the idea in IDEAS.md

The tool returns {promoted: true, slug, album_path, files, ...} on success or {error: ...} on failure.

Step 5: Confirm and Suggest Next Step

On success, report:

Promoted "Kleine Welt" → album "kleine-welt"

Location: ~/bitwize-music/artists/bitwize/albums/electronic/kleine-welt/
Files:    README.md, tracks/

Concept block injected into README.md from idea.
Idea status: Pending → In Progress

Next step:
  /bitwize-music:album-conceptualizer

  This walks through the 7 Planning Phases (Vision, Identity, Sonic
  Direction, Structure, Tracks, Content, Approval) to develop the concept
  you just carried over into the album.

For documentary albums, add:

  Research files also created: RESEARCH.md, SOURCES.md
  Don't forget human source verification before generation.

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Error Handling

Idea not found:

Error: Idea "Nonexistent" not found in IDEAS.md.

Check available ideas: /bitwize-music:album-ideas list

Idea already promoted:

Error: Idea "Already Active" is already promoted (status: In Progress).

If you want to rename or re-scaffold, use /bitwize-music:rename on the
existing album instead.

Idea has no genre:

Error: Idea "No Genre" has no **Genre** field in IDEAS.md.

Set the genre first: /bitwize-music:album-ideas edit "No Genre"

Invalid genre:

Error: Invalid genre "xyz" on idea. Not in genres/.

Fix the genre in IDEAS.md, then retry.

Duplicate album slug:

Error: Album "kleine-welt" already exists.

Options:
1. Supply a different slug: /bitwize-music:promote-idea "Kleine Welt" kleine-welt-2
2. Resume the existing album: /bitwize-music:resume kleine-welt

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Examples

Simple title

/bitwize-music:promote-idea "Kleine Welt"

Auto-derives slug kleine-welt, asks about documentary flag, calls promote_idea, reports outcome.

Explicit slug override

/bitwize-music:promote-idea "The Great Molasses Flood" molasses-1919

Uses molasses-1919 instead of the auto-derived the-great-molasses-flood.

Documentary album

/bitwize-music:promote-idea "The Great Molasses Flood" documentary

Creates RESEARCH.md and SOURCES.md in addition to the standard README and tracks directory.

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Why a Dedicated Skill

The manual workflow required three steps in sequence:

1. get_ideas to find the idea's genre
2. /bitwize-music:new-album with a slug the user invented
3. update_idea("", "status", "In Progress")

Problems this skill solves:

• Concept transfer — The idea's concept text is now merged into the new

album README automatically (manual copy/paste used to be skipped often).

• Status discipline — Ideas no longer linger as Pending after being

worked on; the transition is automatic and bidirectional (Promoted To back-link).

• Slug derivation — No more re-inventing the slug; diacritics and

punctuation are normalized consistently.

• Single entry point — Newcomers learn one command instead of three.

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Remember

1. Pending-only — Only Pending ideas can be promoted. In Progress

and Complete ideas return an error.

1. One-way operation — Promotion creates files and updates state. There

is no "unpromote"; use /bitwize-music:rename or manual cleanup if you need to redo.

1. Concept is preserved — The idea's concept survives in two places

after promotion: the idea's entry in IDEAS.md (historical record) and the new album's README.md (working document).

1. Next step is always album-conceptualizer — Promotion only scaffolds;

the actual planning happens in the 7 Planning Phases.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: bitwize-music-studio
• Source: bitwize-music-studio/claude-ai-music-skills
• License: CC0-1.0
• Homepage: https://www.bitwizemusic.com

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.