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AUTO-INVOKE when user mentions media curation, discography, archive, music collection, video/audio collection, source acquisition, metadata tagging, transcript, Plex, Jellyfin, MPD. Media-curator framework quick reference — discovery phrases for collection assessment, source discovery, acquisition, transcription, quality filtering, metadata, archive integrity, and research handoff.

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Media Curator Framework — Quick Reference

This is your always-loaded directory for the AIWG media-curator framework. It does not list every skill. Instead, it teaches the framework's mental model and gives you curated search phrases that map to aiwg discover lookups.

Canonical access pattern: discover → show

When you find a candidate via aiwg discover, fetch its body with aiwg show <type> <name>. Never use find, ls, Glob, or direct Read on <provider>/skills/ paths — those reflect the kernel-pivot deploy state, not the full surface.

aiwg discover "<phrase>"             # find — returns ranked candidates
aiwg show skill <name>               # fetch — streams the SKILL.md body

If your platform's Skill tool errors on a non-kernel skill (expected — most aren't kernel), the fallback is aiwg show, never filesystem browsing. Last-resort if aiwg itself is broken: read directly from $AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/... (the canonical corpus, always present).

How to use this quickref

Identify the capability domain the user's need belongs to
Pick a curated phrase from that domain (or paraphrase the user's words)
Run aiwg discover "<phrase>" and surface the top match (or top-3) to the user

Do not enumerate skills from memory. Discovery is the lookup surface.

What this framework is for

End-to-end media archive management for audio, video, and other curated asset collections. It can inspect the requested collection type, plan a workflow, discover sources across YouTube/Internet Archive/Bandcamp or other relevant surfaces, acquire with proven tools, score quality, apply consistent metadata, generate gap notes for missing content, verify integrity with SHA-256, transcribe acquired audio/video, and export to platform-specific formats (Plex, Jellyfin, MPD, mobile, archival).

Capability domains

Domain	Covers
Assess & plan	Inspect arbitrary collection requests, examples, filenames, metadata, source URLs, and select workflow/tooling
Catalog planning	Artist discography analysis, canonical catalog structure
Discovery & acquisition	Find sources, download with quality scoring, yt-dlp / Internet Archive patterns
Transcription	Timestamped transcript sidecars for acquired audio/video
Metadata & assembly	Tag files, embed cover art, assemble compilations
Completeness & gaps	Audit collection completeness, document missing content
Integrity & export	SHA-256 verification, platform-specific export bundles
Provenance	Track derivation chains, source, license, and integrity records for curated assets
Research handoff	Pass acquired media plus transcripts into research-complete `induct-media`

Curated discovery phrases

Catalog planning

aiwg discover "curate arbitrary media collection" # → curate
aiwg discover "assess unsupported media type"      # → curate / provenance-tracking
aiwg discover "analyze artist discography"     # → analyze-artist

Discovery & acquisition

aiwg discover "find media sources"             # → find-sources
aiwg discover "acquire media"                  # → acquire
aiwg discover "youtube acquisition"            # → youtube-acquisition (pattern reference)
aiwg discover "archive acquisition"            # → archive-acquisition (pattern reference)
aiwg discover "audio extraction"               # → audio-extraction (pattern reference)
aiwg discover "quality filter media"           # → quality-filtering

Transcription & research handoff

aiwg discover "transcribe media"               # → transcribe-media
aiwg discover "media research handoff"         # → induct-media (research-complete)
aiwg discover "video audio research induction" # → transcribe-media / induct-media

Metadata & assembly

aiwg discover "tag media collection"           # → tag-collection
aiwg discover "metadata tagging"               # → metadata-tagging (pattern reference)
aiwg discover "cover art embedding"            # → cover-art-embedding (pattern reference)
aiwg discover "assemble compilation"           # → assemble

Completeness & gaps

aiwg discover "check collection completeness"  # → check-completeness
aiwg discover "gap documentation"              # → gap-documentation

Integrity & export

aiwg discover "verify archive integrity"       # → verify-archive (score 0.73)
aiwg discover "integrity verification"         # → integrity-verification
aiwg discover "export media collection"        # → export (score 1.00)

Orchestration & provenance

aiwg discover "curate"                         # → curate (end-to-end orchestrator)
aiwg discover "provenance tracking"            # → provenance-tracking

Workflow shape

assess request and examples  →
analyze-artist or type-specific plan  →
  find-sources (discovery)  →
    quality-filtering (accept/reject)  →
      acquire (download)  →
        tag-collection (metadata)  →
          verify-archive (integrity)  →
            export (target platform)

gap-documentation and check-completeness run cross-cutting at any stage.

For unknown or lightly supported asset types, first inspect available examples, filenames, metadata, source URLs, and user intent. Prefer established libraries or tools; create narrow custom tooling only when necessary. If specialized handling is missing, produce a concrete plan, collect safe metadata/provenance and integrity records, and identify the follow-up tool or plugin needed.

Artifact directory layout

.aiwg/media/
├── catalogs/         # Per-artist canonical discographies
├── sources/          # Discovery output (ranked candidates)
├── acquisitions/     # Acquired files + checksums
├── transcripts/      # Transcript sidecars for acquired audio/video
├── gaps/             # GAP-NOTE markers for missing content
├── exports/          # Platform-specific export bundles
└── verify/           # Integrity reports

When the curated phrases don't fit

aiwg discover "<your need, paraphrased>" --limit 5

Anti-pattern: don't enumerate

If a user asks "what media skills are available?", do not list from this skill. Run:

aiwg discover --type skill --limit 20 "<their interest area>"