Plan Week Substack Article (Content Strategist — Substack Articles)

Substack Articles' sibling to /plan-week, simplified for a 1/week cadence. Same shared candidate pool (Post-Ideas/); only the cadence and depth requirement differ. Selection only — does not write article text (that's /write-draft-substack-article) and never touches publishing.

Arguments

• week (optional) — an ISO week or Monday date. Same default rule as /plan-week.

Process

1. Load the candidate pool, filtered to this platform

Read Post-Ideas/ for status: candidate (or selected but not yet claimed by substack-article) ideas with substack-article in platforms. Prefer ideas whose depth genuinely supports 800+ words of real substance — a thin idea that works fine as a single LinkedIn post doesn't automatically deserve a full article. If nothing in the pool clears that bar, say so plainly rather than stretching a shallow idea.

2. Check recent history for fatigue

Scan Content-Learnings/content-index.md filtered to platform: substack-article for topic repetition in the prior ~4 weeks (a longer window than the feed platforms, since articles are lower-frequency and a repeat is more noticeable to subscribers).

3. Pick the day

Read Content-Learnings/playbook-substack.md's Articles section first for an evidenced day-performance rule (≥3 published articles). Otherwise, since this is a new format for the account, source a starting heuristic from real research on Substack publishing-day norms (many newsletters do better on a consistent, predictable day — check current guidance via WebSearch rather than assuming one) and record it back into this file once found.

4. Commit the assignment

Append {platform: substack-article, week: <ISO week>, date: <date>} to the idea's platform_schedule. Advance status: candidate → selected if this is the idea's first platform claim.

5. Report

One line: which idea, why it earns the depth of a full article (not just a feed post), and the assigned date — or, honestly, that no idea in the pool currently clears the depth bar and what topic area would need more research first.

Hard rules

• Never assign more than 1 article per week without the user explicitly asking for more this run.
• Never force a shallow idea into article form just to fill the slot — an honest "nothing qualifies this week" is the correct outcome.
• Never draft article text here.