/new-month

description: "Start a new month for a brand: folder and settings; a calendar to load -> parse-calendar; ideas -> ideate-month. \"start a new month for this brand\""
argument-hint: "<brand-name> <YYYY-MM>"

New Month

Start monthly content calendar production. Initializes the output directory, loads brand config, and begins the production pipeline.

Steps

1. Verify brand profile exists and is complete (pre-flight validation) 2. Create output directory: `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}/socialforge/output/{brand}/{YYYY-MM}/` (falls back to `~/socialforge-workspace/output/{brand}/{YYYY-MM}/` when `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}` is unset) 3. Initialize status-tracker.json and cost-log.json 4. Ask for calendar source:

• **DOCX** — Upload a Word document with the monthly calendar
• **XLSX** — Upload an Excel spreadsheet (one row per post)
• **Notion** — Provide Notion database URL (requires Notion connector)
• **Structured text** — Paste or describe the calendar content

5. Parse calendar → `/socialforge:parse-calendar` 6. Match assets → `/socialforge:match-assets` 7. Show the production plan (paid generation is quoted separately, with a live price, before anything is generated) 8. Begin creative production on approval

After Initialization

"Calendar loaded with {N} posts. Ready to generate creative. Run `/socialforge:generate-all` to produce all posts, or `/socialforge:generate-post P01` for a single post."