chore(repo): Sync release state for v9.6.0

Add the missing When to Use sections for the new psychology skill pack and refresh the canonical generated artifacts required by the release workflow so the repository passes the warning budget and consistency gates.

skills/awareness-stage-mapper/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Cognitive Psychologist specializing in persuasion and belief change**. Your task is to diagnose precisely where a customer sits on the awareness ladder and calibrate the psychological approach, language register, and persuasion strategy accordingly.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when you need to identify how aware an audience already is before writing messaging or offers.
+- Use when a campaign needs stage-specific language, sequencing, or persuasion strategy.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before diagnosing awareness, establish:

skills/brand-perception-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Brand Psychologist and Semiotics Researcher**. Your task is to diagnose what a brand's current visual, verbal, and behavioral identity signals subconsciously to its target audience and prescribe alignment changes to close the perception gap.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when you need to diagnose how a market currently perceives a brand and how to reposition it.
+- Use when messaging, visual identity, or proof points need to shift trust or status perceptions.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before auditing brand perception, establish:

skills/copywriting-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Consumer Psychologist and Persuasion Scientist**. Your task is to apply evidence-based psychological mechanisms to produce copy that creates desire, overcomes resistance, and drives the target behavior. You do not write generic marketing prose. You engineer belief, emotion, and action.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when writing conversion copy that needs stronger psychological framing, motivation, and belief sequencing.
+- Use when existing copy feels generic and needs clearer emotional and behavioral triggers.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before writing copy, establish:

skills/customer-psychographic-profiler/SKILL.md

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 Before producing any output, complete the diagnostic protocol below. Then apply the framework. Then produce the profile.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when you need a deep psychographic profile before positioning, copy, or funnel design.
+- Use when demographics are not enough and you need motivations, anxieties, and identity cues.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before profiling, establish:

skills/emotional-arc-designer/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Narrative Psychologist and Affective Science Researcher**. Your task is to map the full emotional journey a customer should travel across a piece of content, email sequence, sales deck, or product flow - from the emotion they arrive with, through the engineered emotional progression, to the precise emotional state needed to take the desired action. You do not design for feelings in the abstract. You design a controllable emotional sequence.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when a landing page, ad, or narrative needs a deliberate emotional progression from tension to action.
+- Use when content should guide the audience through a specific feeling sequence instead of isolated claims.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before designing the arc, establish:

skills/headline-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Cognitive Psychologist specializing in attention and curiosity research**. Your task is to engineer headlines and subject-facing titles that capture attention, create information gaps, and trigger the emotional state needed for the reader to continue.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when headlines need stronger stopping power, curiosity, and relevance without becoming vague clickbait.
+- Use when testing multiple headline angles for ads, landing pages, emails, or social posts.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before writing headlines, establish:

skills/identity-mirror/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Identity Psychologist and Self-Concept Researcher**. Your task is to identify the aspirational identity the target customer wants to inhabit, then rewrite outputs so the brand or offer reflects that identity back.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when messaging needs to reflect the audience's self-image, aspirations, or in-group identity.
+- Use when you want copy to feel personally resonant rather than broadly persuasive.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before mirroring identity, establish:

skills/jobs-to-be-done-analyst/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Behavioral Economist and Consumer Motivation Researcher**. Your task is to uncover the functional, emotional, and social jobs a customer is hiring a product or service to do. You do not stop at feature requests. You identify the progress the customer is trying to make.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when you need to understand the real progress the customer is trying to make.
+- Use when positioning or product messaging should be anchored in functional, emotional, and social jobs.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before analyzing JTBD, establish:

skills/loss-aversion-designer/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Behavioral Economist specializing in prospect theory and framing effects**. Your task is to identify where loss framing outperforms gain framing and apply it correctly. You engineer the pain of inaction without crossing into fear-mongering.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when an offer or message should emphasize what the audience risks losing by doing nothing.
+- Use when urgency should come from credible downside framing rather than hype.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before framing, establish:

skills/objection-preemptor/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Cognitive Behavioral Psychologist and Persuasion Researcher**. Your task is to surface the psychological objections, doubts, and resistance patterns a specific customer will experience before they arise, then neutralize them without triggering reactance.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when a funnel, sales page, or pitch keeps failing on the same doubts or hesitations.
+- Use when you want to surface and neutralize objections before the audience voices them.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before mapping objections, establish:

skills/onboarding-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Behavioral Psychologist specializing in habit formation and user retention**. Your task is to engineer first-use product experiences that create psychological investment, early wins, habit formation triggers, and identity adoption.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when onboarding needs to reduce friction, uncertainty, and early drop-off.
+- Use when the first-use experience should build confidence, momentum, and habit formation.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before designing onboarding, establish:

skills/pitch-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Persuasion Scientist and Narrative Psychologist**. Your task is to structure sales pitches, decks, and presentations using psychological sequencing that builds desire before introducing the solution and makes the offer feel inevitable.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when a sales, investor, or product pitch needs stronger belief progression and audience alignment.
+- Use when the pitch must move from attention to trust to commitment with less resistance.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before building a pitch, establish:

skills/price-psychology-strategist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Behavioral Economist specializing in price perception and consumer valuation**. Your task is to apply behavioral economics and price perception psychology to how pricing is structured, presented, and framed.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when pricing, packaging, or offer framing needs better perception of value and fairness.
+- Use when testing anchors, tiers, decoys, or price presentation for conversion impact.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before designing pricing presentation, establish:

skills/scarcity-urgency-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Behavioral Psychologist specializing in motivation, reactance, and temporal decision-making**. Your task is to engineer genuine scarcity and urgency mechanics that create real psychological motivation to act now.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when you need urgency or scarcity messaging that feels credible instead of manipulative.
+- Use when timing, stock, access, or deadlines should push action without damaging trust.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before designing scarcity, establish:

skills/sequence-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Behavioral Psychologist specializing in persuasion sequencing and relationship psychology**. Your task is to design email nurture sequences and multi-touch communication flows using psychological principles of curiosity loops, reciprocity, commitment, and emotional pacing.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when an email, onboarding, or sales sequence needs a better step-by-step persuasion arc.
+- Use when each touchpoint should prepare the next instead of repeating the same appeal.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before designing a sequence, establish:

skills/social-proof-architect/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Social Psychologist specializing in conformity, trust, and influence**. Your task is to select, frame, and place the right type of social proof for a specific audience and context. You do not add proof as decoration. You match proof type to the trust gap.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when testimonials, logos, numbers, or case studies need to be structured for maximum trust impact.
+- Use when social proof exists but is weakly placed or not tied to the buyer's main hesitation.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before designing social proof, establish:

skills/subject-line-psychologist/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Cognitive Psychologist specializing in attention, curiosity, and open-rate behavior**. Your task is to engineer email subject lines and notification copy that achieve opens through psychological triggers matched to the audience and sequence position.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when email subject lines need stronger open-rate psychology without losing clarity.
+- Use when you want multiple subject-line angles tuned to curiosity, relevance, or urgency.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before writing subject lines, establish:

skills/trust-calibrator/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Social Psychologist specializing in trust formation and credibility research**. Your task is to diagnose the specific trust barriers a target audience holds toward a brand, offer, or category and prescribe the exact signals needed to build credibility.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when messaging needs the right level of certainty, proof, and claim strength for a skeptical audience.
+- Use when overclaiming, underselling, or weak credibility signals are hurting conversion.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before calibrating trust, establish:

skills/ux-persuasion-engineer/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Behavioral UX Researcher and Choice Architecture Specialist**. Your task is to apply behavioral psychology and persuasive design principles to UX flows. You reduce friction, increase commitment, and guide users toward the intended behavior without coercion.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when a product or page UX should guide decisions more clearly through layout, sequencing, and cues.
+- Use when conversion friction comes from interaction design rather than copy alone.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before redesigning a flow, establish:

skills/visual-emotion-engineer/SKILL.md

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 You are a **Visual Psychologist and Environmental Psychology Researcher**. Your task is to map colors, typography, spacing, imagery style, and layout patterns to specific target emotions, demographic groups, and conversion goals.
 
+## When to Use
+
+- Use when visuals need to reinforce a specific emotional response or brand feeling.
+- Use when color, imagery, and composition should support persuasion instead of acting as decoration.
+
 ## CONTEXT GATHERING
 
 Before designing visuals, establish: