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+name: blog-to-docs
+description: >
+  Convert ClickHouse blog content into docs pages. Use when porting a feature
+  announcement, tutorial, or deep-dive from the blog into the docs site.
+  Covers content extraction, asset handling, structural transformation, and
+  voice conversion.
+---
+
+# Blog-to-Docs Skill
+
+Convert blog posts (or blog sections) into docs pages. Blog content is
+marketing-adjacent and narrative; docs content is task-oriented and
+scannable. This skill covers the transformation process.
+
+## When to use
+
+- A Linear issue or request asks you to port blog content into docs
+- A new feature was announced in a blog post and needs a docs page
+- A blog post contains technical depth that belongs in the docs
+
+## Process
+
+### 1. Extract content from the blog
+
+Fetch the blog URL and extract **all** content from the relevant section.
+Request verbatim content, not a summary — you need every detail to avoid
+losing information during the conversion.
+
+After extraction, build an **exhaustive numbered checklist** of every
+distinct technical claim, fact, setting, default value, behavioral detail,
+caveat, and recommendation in the blog. This is the source-of-truth
+inventory — you will check every item against the docs later in step 8.
+Don't summarize; enumerate.
+
+### 2. Download assets
+
+Download all images and videos from the blog to
+`static/images/clickstack/<feature-name>/` (or the appropriate path).
+
+**Images:** Download as `.png` or `.jpg`. Name descriptively
+(`service-map-overview.png`, not `screenshot-1.png`).
+
+**Videos:** Download `.mp4` files. Keep them — MP4 at ~1MB is far better
+than converting to GIF (which would be 5-15x larger and lower quality).
+
+**Import pattern:** Import assets as webpack modules, not static paths.
+Static paths (`/images/...`) don't work reliably with the dev server.
+
+```jsx
+// Images — use IdealImage
+import Image from '@theme/IdealImage';
+import overview from '@site/static/images/clickstack/feature/overview.png';
+<Image img={overview} alt="Description" size="lg"/>
+
+// Videos — import as module, self-closing tag
+import demo from '@site/static/images/clickstack/feature/demo.mp4';
+<video src={demo} autoPlay loop muted playsInline width="100%" />
+```
+
+**Do NOT use:**
+```html
+<!-- Static path — won't work in dev server -->
+<video src="/images/clickstack/feature/demo.mp4" ... />
+
+<!-- Nested source tag — doesn't render in MDX -->
+<video>
+  <source src={demo} type="video/mp4" />
+</video>
+```
+
+### 3. Read sibling pages
+
+Before writing, read 2-3 sibling pages in the target directory. Match:
+- Frontmatter fields and conventions
+- Section ordering patterns
+- H2 header style (task-oriented, not explainer-style)
+- Component usage (BetaBadge, VerticalStepper, Tabs, etc.)
+
+### 4. Restructure: blog framing to docs framing
+
+This is the critical transformation. Blog posts explain and narrate; docs
+pages orient and instruct.
+
+**Blog patterns to eliminate:**
+- "How it works" explainer sections — fold technical detail into the intro
+  or the section where it's actionable
+- "Reading the map" / "Understanding X" headers — reframe as
+  "Exploring X" or "Using X" (task-oriented)
+- "Controls" as a standalone section — merge with the section that uses them
+- Narrative buildup before the feature — lead with what it does, not the
+  story of why it was built
+- Inline numbered lists like "(1) ... (2) ... (3) ..." — convert to
+  markdown bullet or numbered lists
+
+**Docs patterns to apply:**
+- Intro paragraph: what it is + where to find it + prerequisites
+- H2s named after what you **do**, not what you **learn**
+- Fewer H2s (2-3 for a feature page, not 5)
+- Technical detail woven into context, not siloed in its own section
+
+**Example transformation:**
+
+Blog structure (5 sections):
+```
+- Intro
+- Accessing service maps
+- Reading the map
+- Controls
+- How it works
+```
+
+Docs structure (2 sections):
+```
+- Intro (what it is + how it works + where to find it + prereqs)
+- Exploring the service map (nodes, edges, controls — all in one)
+- Trace-level service maps (the contextual variant)
+```
+
+### 5. Convert voice
+
+Blog posts often use third person, marketing language, and narrative
+framing. Convert to docs voice per the **docs-drafting** skill:
+
+- "Teams can visualize..." → "Service maps visualize..."
+- "This highly requested feature..." → cut entirely
+- "We're excited to announce..." → cut entirely
+- "Users can explore..." → "Click **Service Map** to open..."
+
+The blog is the **source of truth** for technical claims. Don't weaken
+or second-guess what the blog says about how the feature works — but do
+strip the marketing wrapper.
+
+### 6. Handle beta/experimental status
+
+Check sibling pages for how they mark beta features. Don't use `:::note`
+admonitions for beta status — use the `<BetaBadge/>` component if that's
+what siblings use.
+
+```jsx
+import BetaBadge from '@theme/badges/BetaBadge';
+<BetaBadge/>
+```
+
+### 7. Add to sidebar
+
+Add the page to `sidebars.js` in the appropriate position. Check the
+logical ordering relative to sibling pages.
+
+### 8. Verify coverage
+
+After drafting, go back to the numbered checklist you built in step 1.
+Check **every item** against the current state of the docs — not just your
+draft, but also existing pages that may already cover it. For each item,
+mark one of:
+
+- **Covered** — already in docs (note where)
+- **Added** — you added it in this pass
+- **Blog-only** — intentionally left in blog (customer-specific, benchmark, narrative)
+- **Gap** — generalizable content not yet in docs → fix it now
+
+Present the results as a coverage table. Every item must be accounted for.
+Don't move on until there are zero gaps.
+
+**Generalizable technical content must be moved.** Every piece of
+technical guidance in the blog — commands, configuration, process steps,
+caveats, edge cases — belongs in the docs unless it is customer-specific.
+
+**Do not move customer-specific benchmarks or metrics.** Performance
+numbers, resource comparisons, and before/after metrics from a specific
+customer deployment read as marketing in technical reference docs, imply
+universal applicability they don't have, and belong in the blog only.
+The test: would this number be true for a different customer on different
+hardware? If not, leave it in the blog.
+
+### 9. Run drafting skill and pre-ship review
+
+Apply the **docs-drafting** skill for voice/style, then the
+**docs-pre-ship-review** skill before shipping. These are separate passes.
+
+## Link text should match the destination
+
+When linking to another docs page, the link text should describe what the
+reader will find at that destination — not the concept you're discussing.
+
+- "you need [ingesting trace data](/path/to/ingesting-data)" — link text
+  matches the destination (the ingestion guide)
+- "you need [distributed tracing](/path/to/ingesting-data)" — link text
+  describes a concept, but the destination is about ingestion. Misleading.
+
+## Screenshots over hollow tables
+
+If you have UI screenshots for controls or settings, use them instead of
+(or alongside) a description table. A table of control names and
+descriptions without visuals feels hollow. Individual screenshots with
+a one-line description are more useful:
+
+```markdown
+**Source selector** — filter the map to a specific trace source.
+
+<Image img={source_selector} alt="Source selector in toolbar" size="lg"/>
+```
+
+## Unused assets
+
+Before committing, check the asset directory for unused files (screenshots
+with default names, duplicates, `.DS_Store`). Clean them up.