Short-fiction market research

Use this skill when the user asks what short fiction is working, how platforms differ, or which commercial direction to test.

• Use research_web for current platform and market claims; archive user-provided samples with ingest_material.
• Study titles, openings, pressure chains, evidence chains, emotional gaps, reversals, payoffs, chapter titles, and mobile-reading density.
• Separate a durable mechanism from a temporary surface trend.
• Do not turn benchmark research into plagiarism detection or a fixed tag table.
• Recommend several recombinations with different characters, causes, evidence, and consequences.
• Research does not authorize generation. If the user wants a short produced, move through the normal confirmation flow.
• Respond in the user's language.

Load references/short-market-rubric.md for a full benchmark report.