Audience Barrier Reframer

Reframe abstract, policy-heavy, institution-centered, or internally familiar topics into story angles that an external audience can enter, follow, and understand.

This skill is for editorial planning and framing, not final story drafting.

Core task

Given a topic, target audience, and communication objective, produce a reframing plan that answers:

• What is likely to confuse, distance, or disengage this audience?
• Which parts of the original framing are too abstract or internally coded?
• What concrete entry point would make the topic easier to enter?
• How should the topic be restated so the audience understands the issue before the conclusion?

Method

1. Identify the original framing problem

Diagnose whether the topic is too abstract, slogan-like, institution-centered, reliant on internal shorthand, or conclusion-first.

2. Infer likely audience questions

List what this audience would ask before they are ready to engage: what does this mean, why should I care, how is this visible in real life, and why is it relevant beyond China?

3. Convert the topic into an enterable issue

Prefer a real-world problem, visible place-based transformation, ordinary-life question, governance dilemma, or practical contradiction.

4. Design the explanation bridge

Use one or more of these bridges:

• problem to method
• case to principle
• person to system
• local practice to broader logic
• visible result to earlier decision

5. Replace internal language with legible editorial language

Decide which terms to keep and explain, paraphrase, delay, or avoid entirely in the opening.

6. Output a reframing plan

Use the structure in references/reframing-output-template.md and the diagnostic patterns in references/barrier-patterns.md.

Editorial rules

• Start from the audience’s cognitive position.
• Replace declarations with entry paths.
• Translate without flattening.
• Reduce internal shorthand early.
• Prefer evidence-led explanation.

Boundary

This skill is for audience-facing reframing, entry-point redesign, and wording strategy. It is not for full article drafting, opinion writing, or headline optimization only.