Your Task

Input: $ARGUMENTS

Convert a

Pending

idea from

IDEAS.md

into a full album project in one call. Replaces the manual 3-step workflow (

get_ideas

→

new-album

→

update_idea

) with a single entry point.

Promote Idea Skill

Step 1: Parse Arguments

Expected formats:

```
"<idea title>"
```
— auto-derive slug from the title
```
"<idea title>" <album-slug>
```
— override the auto-derived slug
```
"<idea title>" documentary
```
— standard slug, documentary flag on
```
"<idea title>" <album-slug> documentary
```
— explicit slug + documentary

Examples:

```
"Kleine Welt"
```
→ slug auto-derived to
```
kleine-welt
```

"The Great Molasses Flood" molasses-flood documentary

"Ängstliche Kätzchen"

→ slug

angstliche-katzchen

(diacritics stripped)

If no arguments are supplied, or the title is empty, list the available pending ideas first and ask which one to promote:

Which idea should I promote?

Pending ideas:
1. Kleine Welt (electronic, Thematic)
2. The Great Molasses Flood (folk, Documentary)
3. Linux Kernel Wars (electronic, Character Study)

Reply with the exact title.

Use

get_ideas(status_filter="Pending")

to fetch the list.

Step 2: Confirm the Derived Slug

Call

get_ideas(status_filter="Pending")

(or

search(query=idea_title, scope="ideas")

) to confirm the idea exists and show the user what's about to happen.

Compute the slug locally for display only (lowercase, strip diacritics, non-alphanumeric → hyphen). If the result looks odd, offer to override:

About to promote:
  Idea:  Kleine Welt
  Slug:  kleine-welt
  Genre: electronic
  Type:  Thematic

Proceed? (Or supply a different slug.)

Skip the confirmation step if the user has already provided an explicit slug — that's the signal they've already thought about it.

Step 3: Ask About Documentary Flag (if not already supplied)

The

documentary

flag decides whether

RESEARCH.md

and

SOURCES.md

are created. This is not derivable from idea metadata — the idea's "Type" field can say "Documentary" but that's a separate concept (narrative shape). Ask once:

Is this a documentary/true-story album? (Adds research + sources templates. Answer 'yes' for real-world events, 'no' for fiction.)

Skip this step if

documentary

is already in the arguments.

Step 4: Promote via MCP

Call

promote_idea(idea_title, album_slug=<slug or "">, documentary=<bool>)

The tool performs all of:

Find the idea in state (error if missing or already promoted)
Create the album directory via
```
create_album_structure
```
Inject the idea's concept into the new
```
README.md
```
under a
```
## Concept
```
section
Advance idea status
```
Pending
```
→
```
In Progress
```
Add
```
**Promoted To**: <slug>
```
back-link to the idea in
```
IDEAS.md
```

The tool returns

{promoted: true, slug, album_path, files, ...}

on success or

{error: ...}

on failure.

Step 5: Confirm and Suggest Next Step

On success, report:

Promoted "Kleine Welt" → album "kleine-welt"

Location: ~/bitwize-music/artists/bitwize/albums/electronic/kleine-welt/
Files:    README.md, tracks/

Concept block injected into README.md from idea.
Idea status: Pending → In Progress

Next step:
  /bitwize-music:album-conceptualizer

  This walks through the 7 Planning Phases (Vision, Identity, Sonic
  Direction, Structure, Tracks, Content, Approval) to develop the concept
  you just carried over into the album.

For documentary albums, add:

  Research files also created: RESEARCH.md, SOURCES.md
  Don't forget human source verification before generation.

Error Handling

Idea not found:

Error: Idea "Nonexistent" not found in IDEAS.md.

Check available ideas: /bitwize-music:album-ideas list

Idea already promoted:

Error: Idea "Already Active" is already promoted (status: In Progress).

If you want to rename or re-scaffold, use /bitwize-music:rename on the
existing album instead.

Idea has no genre:

Error: Idea "No Genre" has no **Genre** field in IDEAS.md.

Set the genre first: /bitwize-music:album-ideas edit "No Genre"

Invalid genre:

Error: Invalid genre "xyz" on idea. Not in genres/.

Fix the genre in IDEAS.md, then retry.

Duplicate album slug:

Error: Album "kleine-welt" already exists.

Options:
1. Supply a different slug: /bitwize-music:promote-idea "Kleine Welt" kleine-welt-2
2. Resume the existing album: /bitwize-music:resume kleine-welt

Examples

Simple title

/bitwize-music:promote-idea "Kleine Welt"

Auto-derives slug

kleine-welt

, asks about documentary flag, calls

promote_idea

, reports outcome.

Explicit slug override

/bitwize-music:promote-idea "The Great Molasses Flood" molasses-1919

Uses

molasses-1919

instead of the auto-derived

the-great-molasses-flood

Documentary album

/bitwize-music:promote-idea "The Great Molasses Flood" documentary

Creates

RESEARCH.md

and

SOURCES.md

in addition to the standard README and tracks directory.

Why a Dedicated Skill

The manual workflow required three steps in sequence:

```
get_ideas
```
to find the idea's genre
```
/bitwize-music:new-album <slug> <genre>
```
with a slug the user invented

update_idea("<title>", "status", "In Progress")

Problems this skill solves:

Concept transfer — The idea's concept text is now merged into the new album README automatically (manual copy/paste used to be skipped often).
Status discipline — Ideas no longer linger as
```
Pending
```
after being worked on; the transition is automatic and bidirectional (
```
Promoted To
```
back-link).
Slug derivation — No more re-inventing the slug; diacritics and punctuation are normalized consistently.
Single entry point — Newcomers learn one command instead of three.

Remember

Pending-only — Only
```
Pending
```
ideas can be promoted.
```
In Progress
```
and
```
Complete
```
ideas return an error.
One-way operation — Promotion creates files and updates state. There is no "unpromote"; use
```
/bitwize-music:rename
```
or manual cleanup if you need to redo.
Concept is preserved — The idea's concept survives in two places after promotion: the idea's entry in
```
IDEAS.md
```
(historical record) and the new album's
```
README.md
```
(working document).
Next step is always album-conceptualizer — Promotion only scaffolds; the actual planning happens in the 7 Planning Phases.

promote-idea

NPX Install

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