headlines

# Headlines Generate headlines, article titles, social posts, and email subject lines from a brief or draft. Four phases: find the charge, generate volume across named moves, tighten survivors, output per format. Core rule: **volume over polish** -- breadth beats optimization because word-level features predict winners weakly. ## Phase 1: FIND THE CHARGE Identify the single most compelling tension or stake in the material. 1. Read the brief, draft, or topic statement in full. 2. List every tension candidate: surprise, reversal, cost, conflict, a number that changes the picture, a stake the reader holds. 3. Pick ONE -- the charge. Write it as one sentence naming who is affected and what is at stake. 4. Test: would a reader who saw only this sentence want the rest? A topic label ("Kubernetes networking") fails; a live tension ("DNS resolved yesterday, fails today, nothing changed") passes. **Gate**: Charge is one sentence, names a specific tension, is true to source. A weak charge produces 20 weak headlines. ## Phase 2: GENERATE VOLUME Produce 15-25 candidate headlines spread across these ten named moves. Write fast; judge later. ### The Ten Headline Moves | Move | Reflex | Example | |------|--------|---------| | **Curiosity gap** | Opens a question only reading can close | "The One-Line Nginx Default That Took Our API Down" | | **Specificity** | Carries the concrete detail into the headline | "CoreDNS Returns NXDOMAIN for Internal Services After Upgrading to 1.31" | |...