INTENTION_LANE_RUN

/intention — the day's intentions → intention posts (draft-first)

GOAL: turn the owner's INTENTIONS of today (every pain / "how do I do X" question / "I need someone who…" from the day's sessions) into 2-3+ honest intention posts with an explicit ASK, so the audience returns ALPHA (a solution, a warm intro, a warning, a co-author). Draft-first: nothing is published, the drafts go to the owner over Telegram.

Paths and engine

• Miner + store: python $IMPORTS_ROOT/content-factory/intention/intention_mine.py <cmd> (0 tokens).
• Store: intentions.db (never loses anything; deduped by content hash).
• Candidates: candidates\cand-<DAY>.md. Drafts: drafts\intentions-<DAY>.md.
• Decision/canon: $OBSIDIAN_VAULT/02-Decisions/decision-intention-lane-content-factory-2026-07-02.md.
• Telegram Saved Messages (the primary work account): numeric chat_id <YOUR_CHAT_ID> (NOT "me", no parse_mode).
• ⚠️ DELIVERY FALLBACK (when the Telegram MCP is unavailable/connecting — it drops out routinely): the Telethon rail, MCP-independent. Text: TG_BUS_GROUP=<YOUR_CHAT_ID> python $USERPROFILE/.claude/scripts/tg_bus_send.py --raw "…"; file: … --raw --file "<path>" "<caption>". Verified 2026-07-02.

Channel rules (from Deep Research 2026-07-02) — IMPORTANT

• Channels for alpha-seeking ask posts: Telegram (RU) · X (EN, #buildinpublic) · Indie Hackers (EN) · Ask HN (EN, "Ask HN:"). Optional: LinkedIn (business tone).
• ⛔ Do NOT post asks on long-form article platforms or in the Facebook body — the ask format does not work there (an article platform is for articles, not quick answers). Those platforms are separately the channel for longreads/dev-logs, not intentions.
• The platform decides the language: Telegram=RU, X/IH/HN=EN. No forced bilingual output.

The intention-post format (established)

Context (what I'm doing) → what failed / what I realised → an explicit, concrete ask at the end. Honest, vulnerable tone, no marketing gloss. A concrete request ("do I pick A or B?", "I need an expert on X, who has done it?") beats a vague one. Describe IN DETAIL how the owner got here and why (his own rule). Length: X = teaser (240-370), Telegram/IH = medium, Ask HN = "Ask HN: <question>" + a paragraph. 5 templates (need an expert / A-vs-B choice / hit a wall / realised I was wrong / general poll) — in the decision memo §A4 / the DR.

PRIVACY (hard)

No real names / @handles of third parties, no exact amounts (revenue/rounds/other people's deals), no secrets or paths with personal ids. Generalise ("a large lead", "$X"). Privacy beats completeness.

MODEL

The post is the owner's authorial voice → written by the top-tier model. If the current run is NOT on it — delegate THE WRITING ITSELF to a subagent with model:'opus' (Agent tool), passing it the candidates + the format + the privacy rules. Clustering / candidate selection can run on a cheap model.

STEPS

1. DAY = today's local date YYYY-MM-DD (print ASCII only).
2. Mining: intention_mine.py mine <DAY>. Read the summary (CANDIDATES) and the file candidates\cand-<DAY>.md.
3. If CANDIDATES == 0: do not invent anything. Tell the owner over Telegram "📭 <DAY>: no intentions mined today" and finish.
4. CLUSTERING (the judge): assemble DISTINCT intentions out of the raw candidates (one pain = one intention; merge repeats of the same topic). For each: a short title · pain (the pain/question) · journey (how he got here + why, in detail) · ask (the explicit request). Discard pure noise (non-intentions, housekeeping).
5. Store: for every distinct intention — intention_mine.py add --day <DAY> --title "…" --pain "…" --journey "…" --ask "…" --sessions "sid1,sid2". Dedup will drop the ones already stored (that is fine — we don't post twice).
6. SELECTION for posting: take the 2-3 most alpha-worthy intentions OF TODAY (a strong concrete ask, freshness). More if the day was rich.
7. WRITING (top model): for each selected intention, write posts for the suitable channels (Telegram-RU + X-EN at minimum; add IH/Ask HN where the ask fits). Format + privacy as above. Vary the type (request / choice / realised-I-was-wrong).
8. Save every draft into drafts\intentions-<DAY>.md (UTF-8, no BOM; APPEND ONLY, never overwrite someone else's edits — if the file exists, append a section stamped with the run time). Mark the intentions: intention_mine.py mark --id N --status drafted.
9. Send to Telegram (chat_id <YOUR_CHAT_ID>, no parse_mode) a header "🎯 Intention drafts for <DAY> (edit and post them yourself):" + per intention a block "— <title> —" and the per-channel versions. Longer than ~4000 → split on paragraph boundaries into "Part N/M".
10. Report to the owner: how many intentions were mined / stored / drafted, which channels, what was deferred. Finish with "what's next".

The bridge into an episode (intention → longread/dev-log on GitHub)

A strong intention is worth expanding into a "reality show episode": intention_mine.py episode --id <N> creates an episode bundle (9 drafts across the tiers of §7.2, including the longread tier — the article platform here is the LONGREAD channel, not an ask channel) + intention-seed.md carrying the context (pain/journey/ask) for the writer. Then write the drafts (voice = top model) in episodes/<slug>/, then python episode_adapter.py check --slug <slug>. The intention is marked status=episode. This is the seam with /episode — don't duplicate it, call it.

The alpha loop (as responses arrive)

The owner says "<who> replied to the post about X" → intention_mine.py respond --id <N> --who "<name/@>" --channel <channel> --note "<gist>". Check the queue: responders --pending. Promotion into the CRM (leads.db) is a separate verifiable step through the normal lead flow (never write into the production CRM blind).

Boundaries

Draft-first is HARD — nothing goes outbound without the owner's explicit "publish". Don't post asks on article platforms. AK-47: don't spawn platforms beyond the decided set. Tier-2 (outbound/money) is not waived.

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