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+# Measurement
+
+How to tell whether developer content helped, without claiming more than the data shows.
+Sources were checked on 2026-09-25. Analytics products change their definitions, so
+re-read the linked documentation before relying on a specific report.
+
+The unit worth measuring is a progression. A relevant engineer meets one specific idea,
+reaches the right page, reads or runs something, and comes back with a real question or a
+working setup. No public source gives a conversion rate for that sequence, and none will
+give you one for your product. What you can do is observe each stage honestly and keep them
+apart.
+
+## The stages
+
+| Stage | What to record | What it tells you | What it doesn't |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Production and effort | Pieces shipped by account and type; author, reviewer and asset hours; date the product facts were last checked | What the program costs and whether its claims are fresh | Anything about the audience |
+| Relevant attention | Native impressions and reach per post; substantive technical comments and questions, counted and categorized by hand; author replies | Platform-reported exposure and observed discussion; audience relevance requires separate evidence | Whether the people reached were the intended audience, went anywhere, or learned anything |
+| Qualified arrival | Tagged visits to the exact canonical page; engaged sessions or a next-page action; search queries and clicks for that page | That a visit arrived through a tagged link or a search result | Every influence before that visit |
+| Evaluation intent | Visits to prerequisites, examples, migration or limits pages; copy, run or download events if already instrumented with consent; distinct useful questions in the project's discussion venue | Signals consistent with product inspection, not proof of intent | Whether the visitor intended to evaluate the product, installed it, or succeeded |
+| Adoption and learning | First successful task and return use, only where the product already measures them lawfully; recurring questions; optional self-reported source | The strongest signal available, and often missing | Why it happened, on its own |
+
+Keep founder and company accounts in separate rows. Keep paid and organic separate. Don't
+add the columns up into "people reached" or "attributed users". They count different events,
+often of the same person.
+
+## What common metrics mean
+
+| Metric | What it is | Don't read it as |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Impressions | Times the platform showed the post | People who read it |
+| Engagement rate | Interactions divided by the report's stated denominator. Record included interactions and whether the denominator is impressions, reach, followers, or another measure; compare only compatible definitions. At least one published carousel analysis counts slide-advance clicks as engagement | Comprehension, trust, or interest in the product |
+| Comments | Replies of any quality | Qualified interest, until you read and categorize them |
+| Followers, subscribers | Accounts that opted in at some point | Active readers or users |
+| GitHub stars | GitHub describes starring as a way to find a repository again later | Installation or use |
+| Registrations for an event | People who signed up | Attendance, or demand beyond that event |
+| UTM-tagged visit | An arrival through a link carrying source, medium and campaign tags | Everything that influenced the visitor before that click |
+| GA4 channel groups | Event-scoped groups use the property's attribution model; session-scoped groups use last click. The two can credit the same visit differently | Interchangeable numbers. Say which scope a figure uses |
+| Direct traffic | Google defines it as arrival through a saved link or a typed URL | Proof that no earlier content played a part |
+| Search Console data | Google Search impressions and clicks by query, page and country | Task success on the page |
+| AI assistant referrals | Visits whose referrer identifies an AI tool. One 3,000-site vendor sample put them at 0.17% of the average site's visitors, and the vendor warns some arrive as Direct | A complete count of AI-driven discovery |
+| Last click | The final tagged or referred step before a visit | The reason anyone chose to try the product |
+
+## Self-reported attribution
+
+Ask "How did you hear about us?" as an optional free-text question at a point where people
+already stop, such as signup, a contact form or a support request. It catches influence that
+never produced a click: a colleague's recommendation, a talk, an answer from an AI tool.
+
+Treat it as triangulation. Answers depend on memory and on who bothers to answer, and many
+people won't. Report the number who answered next to every
+figure, and compare its story with the tagged and native data. Where all three point the
+same way, you have something. Where they disagree, say so.
+
+## A UTM convention
+
+Tag links you control, and keep the scheme boring enough that nobody improvises:
+
+```text
+utm_source=linkedin       # the site the link lives on
+utm_medium=social         # social, email, community, video
+utm_campaign=<pillar>     # the recurring question, not the date
+utm_content=<piece-id>    # which derivative carried the link
+```
+
+Don't tag links inside community answers when the venue's norms frown on tracking links. An
+untagged honest answer is worth more than the attribution.
+
+## Scorecard template
+
+Fill one row per piece per observation window. Leave a cell marked "not measured" instead of
+guessing. Keep raw exports, identifiers and personal data out of content repositories.
+
+| Field | Example entry |
+| --- | --- |
+| Piece | URL or post ID, account, author |
+| Type and topic | LinkedIn document post, pillar name |
+| Canonical source | Page URL and product version |
+| Published | Date, organic or paid |
+| Window | Days observed, and date reviewed |
+| Effort | Author, review and asset hours |
+| Attention | Impressions; substantive comments and questions (count, with categories) |
+| Replies | Author replies, and questions left open |
+| Arrival | Tagged sessions to the canonical page; engaged or next-page sessions |
+| Evaluation | Visits to examples, limits or migration pages; useful questions in the discussion venue |
+| Adoption | First-task or return-use events if measured; otherwise "not measured" |
+| Self-reported | Mentions of this piece or channel, with how many people answered |
+| Notes | Anything that confounds the week: a release, an outage, a holiday |
+
+Review a piece after several days, then look at the canonical page's arrivals and evaluation
+signals again a few weeks later. One developer-tools company describes social discovery as
+fast and spiky and search as slow and compounding, so judge each on its own clock.
+
+## Small-sample experiments
+
+A small team won't get statistical certainty from its own posts. It can still run a fair
+comparison and avoid fooling itself.
+
+1. Write the question before publishing. For example: "On the company page, do posts that
+   show one mechanism in a two-card image bring more qualified arrivals and implementation
+   questions than matched text explanations?"
+2. Hold the account constant and match topics and claim readiness as closely as you can.
+   Alternate the formats so one doesn't get all the good weeks.
+3. Name one primary outcome and the smallest difference that would change what you do.
+   Impressions alone are not a primary outcome.
+4. Fix the observation window for every post in advance.
+5. Write the stop rule: how many posts per arm, or how many weeks, before you decide, and
+   what result counts as inconclusive. Also note any harm that stops it early, such as a
+   drop in substantive replies or a format eating into reply time.
+6. Record production time for each arm. A format that performs slightly better at triple the
+   effort may not be the better choice.
+7. Report raw counts per arm and the spread between posts, not only an average. Say plainly
+   when the result is inconclusive, which will be often.
+
+One post doing well is not a finding. One developer-tools company's handbook makes the same
+point about a single successful video. A large scheduling vendor suggests starting at a
+sustainable frequency and trying a higher one for a month while tracking the change. Treat
+that as a pilot you run and measure, not a result you can borrow.
+
+Call the result a local observational pilot unless you had a real holdout, and never promise
+a causal growth effect from it.
+
+## Sources
+
+- Google Analytics, campaign URL parameters: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10917952
+- Google Analytics, default channel groups and attribution scopes: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9756891
+- Google Search Console overview: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-console-start
+- GitHub Docs, saving repositories with stars: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/saving-repositories-with-stars
+- GitHub Docs, about Discussions: https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/collaborating-with-your-community-using-discussions/about-discussions
+- LinkedIn Help, Page analytics: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a547077
+- Ahrefs, AI traffic study (2025-02-06), vendor sample of 3,000 sites: https://ahrefs.com/blog/ai-traffic-study/
+- Buffer, how often to post on LinkedIn (2025-08-28), observational: https://buffer.com/resources/how-often-to-post-on-linkedin/
+- Buffer, state of social media engagement (2026-03-05), observational: https://buffer.com/resources/state-of-social-media-engagement-2026/
+- PostHog handbook, social media: https://posthog.com/handbook/content/social-media
+- PostHog handbook, blogs (social versus search discovery): https://posthog.com/handbook/content/blogs
+- The SEO Works, LinkedIn video and carousel analysis (2025, one agency's sample; slide clicks counted as engagement): https://www.seoworks.co.uk/downloads/data-led-analysis-of-linkedin-video-vs-carousels/

package/package/corpus/skills/cratis-developer-marketing/references/playbook-evidence.md

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+# Playbook evidence
+
+The sources behind the developer-marketing skill, checked on 2026-09-25. Each entry says what
+the source found or describes, and how far it can be stretched. Company practices are
+summarized in our own words. Read the originals before quoting them.
+
+Evidence types used below:
+
+- **Official:** a platform or project describing its own rules or system. Good evidence of
+  the rule. It doesn't show that a tactic works.
+- **Peer-reviewed:** a published study. Check whether its population resembles yours.
+- **Survey:** self-reported answers from a recruited sample. Shows what respondents say, not
+  what they did.
+- **Vendor observational:** a tool vendor's analysis of its own customers' data. Shows
+  association in that sample, not cause, and not the whole platform.
+- **Company practice:** how one company says it works. A pattern to consider, not a result
+  to borrow.
+- **Case example:** a single published piece that shows a technique in use.
+
+## How developers find and evaluate tools
+
+Stack Overflow's surveys are large but recruited mostly through Stack Overflow's own
+channels. The 2025 methodology notes that highly engaged users were more likely to see the
+invitation. Different years asked different questions, so don't read the figures as a trend.
+
+- In 2025, technical documentation was the most-used resource for learning in the past
+  year, at 67.8% of respondents. Survey.
+  https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/developers/
+- In 2024, asked how they discover and research solutions when buying a tool, 75.2% chose
+  starting a free trial and 72.5% chose asking developers they know. The page's narrative
+  says "evaluate", but the question is about discovery and research. Survey.
+  https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work/
+- In 2024, asked where they first go with a technical question at work, about 55% said
+  traditional search and 15% AI-powered search. Survey.
+  https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/professional-developers/
+- In 2024, 75.2% selected APIs among the features they care about when endorsing a purchase.
+  The page's own wording implies APIs make endorsement more likely. The question doesn't
+  show that. Survey. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work/
+- In 2025, for work projects, APIs ranked first and quality second among attraction or
+  endorsement factors. AI integration ranked ninth, second to last. The top reasons to
+  reject a technology were security or privacy concerns, prohibitive pricing and better
+  alternatives, in that order. Survey. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work/
+- Reported influence over purchases varied by role in 2024: the page highlights senior
+  executives at 99%, engineering managers at 87% and product managers at 77% reporting some
+  influence. In 2025, 48% said they had endorsed or influenced a technology in the past year,
+  and some of those endorsements led to no purchase or use. Survey.
+  https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work/ and https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/work/
+- In 2025, more respondents distrusted the accuracy of AI-tool output (46%) than trusted it
+  (33%). The biggest frustrations were AI answers that are almost right (66%) and debugging
+  AI-generated code taking longer (45%). Survey. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai/
+- Developer Nation's Q1 2025 report names documentation the leading onboarding resource
+  (39.3% called it essential), followed by tutorials and how-to videos (32.7%) and sample
+  projects (28.9%). The most common first-use problem with vendor resources was a lack of
+  examples suited to the reader's skill level (16.3%). The item denominators are not stated
+  on the public page. Survey. https://www.developernation.net/developer-reports/dn29/
+
+## Openings, hooks and clicks
+
+- The Upworthy archive holds headline-and-image A/B tests run from January 2013 to April
+  2015 on a U.S. news and entertainment site. Tests varied whole packages, so single
+  properties aren't isolated. Peer-reviewed dataset.
+  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00934-7
+- A 2025 registered report across 8,977 of those experiments found that more concreteness
+  helped headlines that were too vague and hurt ones that were already too concrete. The
+  authors caution that the audience was one site's mostly American readers. Peer-reviewed.
+  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-81575-9
+- A 2023 registered report found that linguistic features predicted the higher-CTR headline
+  only 54% of the time across pairs. Peer-reviewed.
+  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281682
+- Another 2023 registered report estimated that each extra negative word raised CTR by 2.3%
+  relative (not percentage points) for an average-length headline, and names the site's
+  clickbait style as a limit on generalizing. Nothing here measures trust or reading.
+  Peer-reviewed. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
+- A study of more than 4,400 Facebook news posts associated clickbait features with post
+  interactions in both directions and had no click-through data at all. Observational.
+  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0266743
+- Google's title-link guidance asks for descriptive, concise titles and warns against vague
+  or needlessly long ones. It governs search titles, not social hooks. Official.
+  https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-link
+
+## Platform rules
+
+- Hacker News asks for the original source and generally the original title unless it is
+  misleading or linkbait. It discourages attention-grabbing capitalization and
+  editorializing, allows posting your own work some of the time but not primarily for
+  promotion, prohibits soliciting votes or comments, and in its comment guidelines prohibits
+  generated or AI-edited text. The generated-text rule sits under comments. Cratis applies
+  it to titles and submission text too, as its own stricter policy. Official.
+  https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
+- LinkedIn says members may use AI to refine language but posts and comments should
+  represent their own voice and perspective. It says apparently AI-generated content that
+  lacks a clear perspective is less likely to spread beyond the immediate network. That is
+  not a ban on AI assistance. Official.
+  https://news.linkedin.com/2026/keeping-conversations-real-on-linkedin
+- LinkedIn's engineering team describes LLM-based retrieval and sequential ranking that
+  learn from profile context and reading, liking, commenting, returning and scrolling past.
+  It publishes no weights and no fixed early-engagement cutoff. Official.
+  https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/feed/engineering-the-next-generation-of-linkedins-feed
+
+## How developer-tools companies work
+
+Summaries of published practice. None of these reports a controlled result, and several
+pages are years old.
+
+- **PostHog** treats content as its main marketing effort and says it sets no arbitrary
+  volume goals and doesn't rely on AI to write. Writers decide who a post is for and how it
+  will reach them before drafting, with social described as fast and spiky and search as
+  slow and compounding. Its voice guide asks for concrete examples, directness and honesty
+  about limitations. Engineers write about their own work and may use AI for research and
+  line edits, not the whole piece. It focuses on three primary social platforms and doesn't
+  tailor posts for secondary ones. It reports that on LinkedIn, individuals' content does
+  better and reads as more earnest than brand content, with no numbers given. It warns that
+  one video doing well isn't enough to change strategy. It separates a product release,
+  owned by the product team, from a marketing launch, and prefers small rolling launches.
+  Company practice (living handbook).
+  https://posthog.com/handbook/content,
+  https://posthog.com/handbook/content/blogs,
+  https://posthog.com/handbook/brand/tone,
+  https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/writing-blogs,
+  https://posthog.com/handbook/content/social-media,
+  https://posthog.com/handbook/marketing/product-announcements
+- **Supabase** planned its first Launch Week in 2021 after three more months of building,
+  as a week of separate announcements. Later that year it wrote that it rarely held features
+  back, shipped early, announced to existing users as things landed, and saved full
+  write-ups and broad marketing for Launch Week. It said the engineer who built a feature
+  often wrote its technical content and helped choose channels. Company practice, 2021,
+  possibly stale. https://supabase.com/blog/launch-week and
+  https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-how-we-launch
+- **Vercel** published an engineering article that explains a latency problem, the cost of
+  the obvious fix, the production experiments, and a 91% reduction in P99 metadata lookup
+  latency. The number applies to that lookup, not the whole CDN. Case example, 2026.
+  https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-cut-cdn-metadata-lookup-latency-by-91-percent
+- **Tailscale** published a 2020 post in one engineer's playful first-person voice that
+  still explains the real logging pipeline and what happens when the log server can't
+  receive data. Case example, historical.
+  https://tailscale.com/blog/the-log-blog
+- **Stripe**'s developer blog pages link to its docs, YouTube channel, Discord and local
+  meetups. These are site-wide links, not evidence that a given article was paired with a
+  video or event. Case example. https://stripe.dev/blog/how-api-changes-flow-into-stripes-developer-products
+- **Linear** advised in 2020 that changelogs cover what a human would find interesting, with
+  internal work mentioned only when it changes performance or experience. Company practice,
+  historical. https://linear.app/now/startups-write-changelogs
+- **Fly.io** introduced an open-sourced service-discovery component through its own account
+  of a 2024 outage and the concurrency bug behind it. Case example, 2025.
+  https://fly.io/blog/corrosion/
+
+Also reviewed, and left out because the specific claims were not independently checked:
+Cloudflare, Resend, Temporal, Prisma, Turso, Oxide and Particular. Revisit them with a fresh
+check before citing.
+
+## Distribution, frequency and replies
+
+- Buffer distinguishes crossposting (the same content on several platforms) from
+  repurposing (a core idea reworked into a different format). Vendor guidance, 2026-01-20.
+  https://buffer.com/resources/repurposing-content-guide/
+- Buffer's analysis of over two million LinkedIn posts from more than 94,000 accounts
+  associates two to five posts a week with 1,182 more impressions per post and 0.23
+  percentage points more engagement than one a week. It suggests starting in a sustainable
+  range and trying a higher pace for a month while tracking. Vendor observational, not
+  causal. https://buffer.com/resources/how-often-to-post-on-linkedin/
+- Buffer reports roughly 30% higher engagement within an account on LinkedIn posts where the
+  creator replied, says causation is uncertain, and says its medians describe its own
+  dataset. Vendor observational.
+  https://buffer.com/resources/state-of-social-media-engagement-2026/
+- Buffer's same report gives a median 21.77% engagement for LinkedIn document carousels in
+  its sample. One agency's carousel analysis counts slide-advance clicks as engagement.
+  Vendor observational and small study.
+  https://www.seoworks.co.uk/downloads/data-led-analysis-of-linkedin-video-vs-carousels/
+
+## Example: a specialist audience
+
+The .NET and event-sourcing audience shows how one "developer community" is really several
+places with different norms. Broad discovery happens through creator videos, newsletters,
+blogs and conferences. Deeper modeling and event-sourcing conversations live in narrower
+venues. Audience counters on those channels are not active readers, and none of this
+measures which format works for a given product.
+
+- Oskar Dudycz's 2026 article on fixing bugs in event-sourced systems opens with bad data
+  from integrations, users and shipped changes, then a support incident. Case example.
+  https://event-driven.io/en/fixing-bugs-in-event-sourcing-is-hard/
+- Jeremy D. Miller's writing distinguishes Wolverine's logical message deduplication from
+  transactional-inbox idempotency, the kind of precise distinction practitioners argue
+  about. Case example. https://jeremydmiller.com/
+- Marten describes itself as a PostgreSQL-backed .NET document database and event store
+  and links tutorials and a chat. Official. https://martendb.io/
+- Kurrent runs a discussion forum with product and Domain-Driven Design categories.
+  Official. https://discuss.kurrent.io/
+- Virtual DDD builds sessions around problems members bring, solved or not, and continues
+  discussion on Discord. That describes the community. It doesn't grant permission to
+  promote there. Official. https://virtualddd.com/
+- NDC links most earlier talks from its YouTube archive. Official.
+  https://ndcconferences.com/
+- Jimmy Bogard reported over 700 registrations for a webinar. Registrations, not
+  attendance. Case example.
+  https://www.jimmybogard.com/vertical-slice-architecture-webinar-recording-and-whats-next/
+
+## Folklore sources
+
+| Claim | Why it fails | Source |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Links in the LinkedIn body kill reach | Format medians don't isolate link placement | https://buffer.com/resources/state-of-social-media-engagement-2026/ |
+| The first hour decides a post | LinkedIn discloses no cutoff | https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/feed/engineering-the-next-generation-of-linkedins-feed |
+| Exact hashtag counts, or saves outrank likes | No weights published | Same LinkedIn Engineering post |
+| Carousels drive developer adoption | Engagement can include slide clicks; no adoption data | Buffer report above; https://www.seoworks.co.uk/downloads/data-led-analysis-of-linkedin-video-vs-carousels/ |
+| Founder posts have a fixed multiplier | One company's unquantified observation | https://posthog.com/handbook/content/social-media |
+| Everyone should post two to five times a week | Observational association | https://buffer.com/resources/how-often-to-post-on-linkedin/ |
+| Negative or mystery hooks win with engineers | Historical news-site CTR, not trust or adoption | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-81575-9 and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4 |
+| Documentation only matters after the sale | Developers report using docs to learn and onboard | https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/developers/ and https://www.developernation.net/developer-reports/dn29/ |
+| Stars, impressions or last clicks equal adoption | Different events | https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/saving-repositories-with-stars and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9756891 |
+| HN welcomes polished promotional replies | Its rules prohibit generated comments and primarily promotional use | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html |
+
+Unchecked and not used: current subreddit rules, live platform character limits (see the
+content-length skill), and any vendor benchmark not listed above. Check them at the time of
+use.

package/package/corpus/skills/cratis-developer-marketing/verification.json

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+{
+  "skill": "cratis-developer-marketing",
+  "input": "Plan how we launch and distribute a new developer tutorial across our blog, LinkedIn, community forums and Hacker News, and how we will know whether it worked.",
+  "fixtures": [],
+  "assertions": [
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "Nothing in a plan is published, scheduled or replied to by an agent" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "a path the reader can run in minutes, with a visible result" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "Incident stories and \"I was wrong\" stories must be real, and the named author has to own" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "One canonical source, many entry points" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "Repurposing means taking the core idea into a new format" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "text-only is a deliberate, recorded choice" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "Captures are framed, never stamped" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "so the wider scope is Cratis's own, stricter policy" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "Don't assume a founder multiplier" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "Answer the question that was asked, in full, in the thread" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "There is no required frequency" },
+    { "kind": "skill-contains", "value": "A star is a bookmark. An impression is a render." }
+  ]
+}