A precision tool for stripping away fluff to find the single most important sentence that defines your message's survival.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install bookforge-core-message-extractor
2. Manual Installation
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~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
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What is Core Message Extractor?
The Core Message Extractor is a foundational tool for high-impact communication, inspired by the principles in Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. It helps developers, founders, and marketers identify the Commander's Intent—the plain-language statement that enables subordinates to act effectively even when a plan fails. By utilizing Openclaw Skills, this agent-driven workflow ensures your most critical message is never lost in a sea of jargon, feature lists, or over-stuffed drafts.
This skill serves as the prerequisite for all advanced messaging techniques. It focuses on forced prioritization to find the core before adding sensory details or emotional hooks. Whether you are drafting a strategy memo or a product pitch, this skill forces the hard decisions necessary to make an idea stick in the audience's mind.
Core Message Extractor Use Cases
- Distilling a rambling elevator pitch into a high-concept one-liner like "X for Y."
- Defining the Commander's Intent for internal strategy memos or project launches to ensure team alignment.
- Simplifying product landing page copy to highlight the single most important benefit.
- Resolving team disagreements on brand messaging through objective, forced prioritization tests.
How Core Message Extractor Works
- Inventorying all candidate points from the raw draft, brief, or rambling idea to make every claim visible.
- Applying the Removal Test to force-rank and prioritize the most critical claim that must survive.
- Drafting a plain-language Commander's Intent sentence that describes a clear end-state.
- Validating the draft against the Delegation, Outsider-Judgeable, and Constraint tests to ensure it is actionable.
- Compacting the message using advanced techniques like Schema-Tapping, High-Concept Pitches, or Generative Analogies.
- Generating a structured markdown artifact that includes the core message, a justification block, and a cut list.
Core Message Extractor Setup
To integrate this core functionality into your environment as part of your Openclaw Skills library, use the following steps:
# Navigate to your skills directory
cd skills/core-message-extractor
# Ensure you have a draft.md or pitch.md in your working directory
# Run the skill via your AI agent to begin the extraction process
Core Message Extractor Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes its output into a structured file named core-message.md. The data is taxonomized as follows:
| Section | Purpose |
|---|---|
| The One Sentence | The final, compacted core message that survives all tests. |
| Why This Is The Core | A justification block mapping the message to the audience and goal. |
| Test Results | Evidence of passing the Delegation, Kennedy, and Boeing 727 tests. |
| Cut List | A transparent list of candidate points removed and the rationale for their removal. |
| Assumptions | Explicit list of inferred audience or goal data for user verification. |
Core Message Extractor Advanced Features
- Forced Prioritization Logic: Implements the "If you say three things, you say nothing" rule to prevent message dilution.
- Three-Test Validation: Automatically checks messages against the Southwest (Delegation), Kennedy (Outsider-Judgeable), and Boeing 727 (Constraint) criteria.
- Multi-Technique Compaction: Dynamically selects between Schema-Tapping, High-Concept Pitches, or Generative Analogies based on audience familiarity.
- Defensive Output: Generates a Cut List to help users defend the simplified message in team environments by showing exactly what was de-prioritized.
- Integration Ready: Designed as a Level 0 foundation within Openclaw Skills, allowing for seamless handoffs to emotional or story-based agents.
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