Conflict Safe Connect

Conflict-Safe Connect

You want to reach a slate of creators for a campaign, but only the ones who aren't already working with the competitor brands you care about. This skill runs conflict-check's screen across the whole slate, partitions it into CLEAN / FLAGGED / UNSCREENABLE, and then reaches only the CLEAN set via Creatorland's matchmaker — after a mandatory credit-confirmed pre-flight. FLAGGED and UNSCREENABLE creators are never reached automatically; they're listed for your manual call. For brand-side casting directors and managers who want the conflict gate and the reach in one safe pass.

Read first: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/conventions.md (tool schemas, credit prices, the nine conventions) and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/connection-flow.md (THE connection contract — schemas, mandatory pre-flight, graceful degradation, privacy invariants). This skill honors thrifty/thorough credit modes (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/credit-modes.md) and the Freshness Gate (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/freshness-gate.md).

This skill composes conflict-check by reference: run that skill's screen first (its honesty framing is mandatory — a clean result is "no conflicts found in our corpus", never a guarantee), then act on the result. It does NOT re-implement the screen or edit conflict-check.

Siblings: conflict-check screens but never reaches. cast-and-connect reaches without a conflict gate. This skill is the gated reach — screen, then reach only the clean ones.

Inputs to collect

• Creator(s) / slate (required) — one creator or a slate, in any format (handles, a sheet, a prior shortlist in-session). Map each to one identifier type.
• Competitor brands (required) — the brands a conflict would be against. If the user hasn't named any, ask once: "Which brands should I screen against?" Without them there is nothing to gate on; do not reach blind.
• Opportunity — campaign_type is required (the matchmaker pitch needs it). Collect optional deliverables, comp_tags, timeline, brief_context, and a brand-authored personal_message if offered — never invent quotes. budget_band is filled from a corpus rate band in the pre-flight (step 4), not asked. For a promo/gifting/event/collab (not a plain casting), also collect the structured brief — archetype (casting|product_gift|partner_promo|event_invite|paid_collab), an offer ({what, value, expiry, redemption}), and the on-behalf-of brand ({name, represented_by}) — per the schema and required-field rules in connection-flow.md (the new archetypes require brand + offer.what; don't restate the schema here, reference it).
• Credit mode — default thorough; thrifty on the standard triggers.

Flow

1. Screen the slate (compose conflict-check). Run conflict-check's screen across every creator: for each, get_creator_profile { "identifier": { "type": "social_handle", "platform": "<platform>", "handle": "<handle>" } } (exactly one identifier type per call). Read brand affiliations (pro plan) and data freshness. Match affiliations against the competitor list (no tool call). 1 credit × N. Credit estimate fires when N > 30. Apply the Freshness Gate — a stale profile's affiliations may have drifted, so a "clean" stale row carries a drift caveat. Thrifty: profiles only, cap the slate size and report any creators not screened.

2. Partition the slate (no tool call) into three sets:

   • CLEAN — affiliations present, no overlap with the competitor list ("no conflict found in our corpus").
   • FLAGGED — affiliations present and overlapping a competitor (conflict found), naming the brand.
   • UNSCREENABLE — affiliations absent: free plan (pro-gated field) or the field simply wasn't returned. Unscreenable ≠ clean — it is a "we could not check," reported as such.

3. Suppression / active-sequence pre-screen (mandatory, free) — before reaching, call list_connections { "limit": 100 } and remove from the CLEAN set (a) anyone already in an ACTIVE sequence for this brand (a repeat would be refused, uncharged, and is a harassment risk) and (b) anyone who previously opted out. Report who was skipped and why. 0 credits.

4. Build the opportunity + budget_band — campaign_type from input. Fill budget_band from a corpus rate band via query_market_intelligence { "mode": "rate", "vertical": "<inferred>", "deal_type": "<if known>", "creator_tier": "<the reach set's tier, if it clusters at one>" } — wrapped in Refusal Recovery — so the pitch is market-credible, not a lowball. When the clean reach set clusters at a creator tier, pass creator_tier (emerging <1k / nano 1k-10k / micro 10k-100k / mid 100k-500k / macro 500k-1M / mega 1M+) for a size-scoped band; when tier is mixed or unknown keep the vertical-wide band as the fallback (a too-thin tier auto-broadens, disclosed). 5 credits (skip in thrifty; reach without budget_band and say so). Keep personal_message brand-authored.

5. Credit estimate + confirm (mandatory before any reach). Let K = the CLEAN, suppression-cleared set. Reaching K creators = 10×K credits. State it and get an explicit yes: "Screen is done. K creators are clean and reachable; reaching them costs 10×K credits ($Z). FLAGGED and UNSCREENABLE creators are held back for your decision. Proceed with reaching the K clean creators?" Never fire without confirmation.

6. Reach ONLY the CLEAN set. For each clean creator, one call: request_creator_connection { "creator": { "type": "social_handle", "platform": "<platform>", "handle": "<handle>", "display_name": "<opt>" }, "opportunity": { "campaign_type": "<required>", "deliverables": "<opt>", "comp_tags": ["<opt>"], "budget_band": "<from step 4>", "timeline": "<opt>", "brief_context": "<opt>", "personal_message": "<brand-authored opt>" }, "send_connection_request": true } 10 credits each (one charge per creator, whole 3-touch sequence). Capture each conn_ref. Never call this for a FLAGGED or UNSCREENABLE creator.

   Graceful degradation: if request_creator_connection returns a refused envelope (no creator_connections entitlement), do NOT error. Still deliver the full conflict screen (clean/flagged/unscreenable) and add one line: "Connections aren't on your plan — here's the conflict screen and the clean set; upgrade to pro/pilot to reach them." The screen is the value you can still ship.

Deliverable

# Conflict-Safe Connect — <slate / campaign name>
_Screened against: <competitor brands> · Campaign: <campaign_type> · Creatorland Data · <date>_

## Conflict screen
| Creator | Corpus affiliations (relevant) | Verdict | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|
| @<handle> | <overlapping brands, or "—"> | ✅ CLEAN — no conflict found in our corpus / ⚠ FLAGGED — affiliated with <brand> / ☔ UNSCREENABLE — affiliations not available | fresh / aging / ⚠ stale |
<one row per creator>

## Reached (clean set)
| Creator | conn_ref | Status |
|---|---|---|
| @<handle> | <conn_ref> | queued — 3-touch sequence, auto-stops on reply |
<one row per reached clean creator>
_Reached <K> creators · ~<10×K> credits._
<If skipped by suppression pre-screen: "Skipped (already in an active sequence / opted out in our records): @<handle> — <reason>.">
<If degraded: "Connections aren't on your plan — clean set above is ready to reach; upgrade to pro/pilot.">

## Held back for your decision (NOT reached)
- ⚠ **FLAGGED** — @<handle>: affiliated with <competitor> in our corpus. Decide manually whether to proceed.
- ☔ **UNSCREENABLE** — @<handle>: affiliations not available (free plan / field absent). Unscreenable ≠ clean — we could not check; verify before reaching.

## What this screen does and does not cover
- Affiliations are **derived from the Creatorland corpus** — not an exhaustive
  record of every deal. A clean result means **no conflict found in our
  corpus**, not a guarantee of none. Unreported, in-flight, or just-signed deals
  may not appear, especially on profiles flagged stale.
- **Unscreenable ≠ clean.** A missing affiliations field is "could not check,"
  never an all-clear.
- The outreach runs a 3-touch sequence that auto-stops on reply; outcomes are
  the creator's. We make no promise of a reply or a yes.
- Contact details are never shared with you through these tools — on a creator
  "yes", Creatorland's matchmaker makes a double-opt-in intro.

---
Data freshness: <N>/<M> creators synced within the last sync window; <K2>
flagged — affiliations may have drifted.
Provenance: Creatorland Data MCP · <M> profiles<+ 1 rate band> · <K> connections requested · <date>.
Credits used this run: ~<total> (<M> profiles ×1<+ rate band ×5> + <K> connections ×10).

Honesty rules

• A clean result is "no conflicts IN OUR CORPUS" — never "no conflicts". Mandatory phrasing everywhere, inherited from conflict-check; the corpus is not exhaustive.
• Unscreenable ≠ clean, and is NEVER reached automatically. Absent affiliations (free plan / missing field) mean the screen could not run for that creator — report it, never a false all-clear, never auto-reach.
• FLAGGED is never reached automatically. A found conflict is held back for the user's manual decision; the skill does not override it.
• Stale profiles get a drift caveat — a recent competitor deal may post-date the sync, so a "clean" stale row is provisional.
• Never promise a reply or a booking. Frame outreach as "we'll reach them and run a 3-touch sequence that stops on reply," not "this gets you a deal."
• Always show the reach cost before reaching and the actual tally after.
• PII invariant (convention 7 + connection-flow privacy). No contact info in any deliverable, regardless of source; scrub bio snippets. The affordance is "Creatorland will reach them for you," never an address. conn_ref and status are brand-safe; a creator's contact is not.

Credit footprint

thorough: ~(N + 5 + 10×K) credits for N creators screened, one rate-band call, and K clean creators reached (e.g. 8 screened + 1 rate band + 5 clean reached = 8 + 5 + 50 = 63) · thrifty: ~(N + 10×K) credits (profiles only, no rate band — reach without budget_band, slate cap reported). The 10×K reach cost applies to the clean set only; FLAGGED and UNSCREENABLE creators cost nothing because they are never reached. The reach estimate is always stated and confirmed before firing (step 5); the screen estimate fires when N exceeds ~30.