Aim to produce titles with the highest viral potential that can be published directly. Do not promise a title will definitely go viral, but must actively pursue click desire, and must not degrade into an accurate, complete content summary that no one wants to click.
Required Reading Reference
Before generating, rewriting, condensing, or comparing titles, first read in full references/canghe-title-patterns.md. Use the personal style fingerprint and original samples in it to calibrate tone; the user's explicit requirements in the current round always take precedence over historical samples.
Decision Priorities
Choose in the following order:
- Facts are true; do not fabricate brands, numbers, results, open source, official endorsements, or industry impact;
- Have a clear click motive, making readers immediately feel change, conflict, gain, loss, curiosity, or a takeaway result;
- Naturally include 1 core keyword, and add 1 strongly related keyword when necessary;
- Short and powerful, retaining only one main viral point;
- Conform to Canghe's personal tone, like real experience and judgment, not like a media press release.
Treat keywords as signals that help the platform identify the topic and help readers judge relevance; do not promise that a certain word can trigger the recommendation algorithm.
Generation Process
- Extract from the article, summary, outline, selling points, or original title:
- Core entity: brand, product, model, technology, person, or event;
- Strongest change: replacement, reversal, rise, accident, risk, or new opportunity;
- Strongest result: time saved, money made, growth, usable outcome, or reader benefit;
- Strongest evidence: personal testing, time spent, numbers, Stars, works, source code, or real experience;
- The pain point readers care about most.
- Choose 1 main keyword. Prefer the highly recognizable entity or scenario word that the article truly revolves around, and place it in the first half of the title. Keep a second word only when the two words together form the topic; do not add words unrelated to the body just to ride a trend.
- Choose 1 main viral point. Prefer selecting from strong change, specific results, personal action, counterintuitive judgment, risk and loss, and directly obtainable outcomes.
- Generate at least 20 substantially different candidates in the draft, covering as much as possible more than 4 types of click motives. Do not just replace synonyms in the same sentence.
- Enforce candidate diversity: the same opening or same ending skeleton may appear at most 2 times, and strong colloquial words may repeat at most 1 time across the entire final candidate set.
- Perform filtering one by one for facts, keywords, length, punctuation, rhythm, and repetition, and eliminate titles that smell like summaries, press releases, piled-up jargon, or empty exaggeration.
- Rank internally by "click desire 30, facts and specificity 25, keyword naturalness 20, brevity and clarity 15, Canghe style 10." Eliminate directly when facts do not hold or keywords are irrelevant; do not compensate with other scores.
Length and Symbols
- By default, keep it within 14 to 24 non-whitespace characters; when shorter but information-complete, prefer shorter.
- For regular titles, try not to exceed 28 non-whitespace characters. Relax it to 36 only when the full product name, a necessary number, or a tutorial deliverable cannot be compressed further.
- A title should have at most two short clauses, and preferably use only one Chinese comma to connect them.
- By default, use only the Chinese comma
，; when a stronger conclusion needs to be emphasized, one！。 - By default, do not use periods, colons, semicolons, parentheses, square brackets, book title marks, quotation marks, vertical bars, slashes, dashes, Emoji, hashtags, consecutive punctuation, or ellipses.
- Only when the article clearly answers one high-value question may you exceptionally use one
？; only when the tool combination itself is the core keyword may you exceptionally use+。 - When a product name, version number, or data itself contains characters such as
.、-、+、x, keep their necessary official form; these characters must not be added as decorative symbols.
Keyword Rules
- Each title should naturally contain 1 main keyword if possible, and at most 2.
- Prefer product names, company names, model names, technology names, scenario words, or deliverables, such as Codex, Tencent, WeChat, Skill, MCP, Agent, open source, tutorial.
- Prefer placing the main keyword within the first 12 to 16 non-whitespace characters, without awkwardly interrupting Chinese word order.
- Use the official form or the one readers are most familiar with, and do not repeat synonymous keywords in the same title.
- Keywords must serve the article's core value; trending words that the article would still stand without should be deleted directly.
Viral Appeal Rules
- Use specific verbs and results to create impact, such as “made a move”, “earned”, “open-sourced”, “can't go back”, “no need to climb floors anymore”.
- When the author's investment, trial, or results constitute evidence, prefer using “I” or “we”.
- Use numbers, time spent, amounts, Stars, length, and test conclusions only when the main text supports them.
- Strong judgments are allowed, but the judgment must land on a specific object and result; “too strong”, “killing it”, and “disrupting the industry” cannot serve as a viral point on their own.
- Do not consecutively reuse fixed openings such as “A ...”, “I took ...”, “worked my tail off ...”, to avoid sounding templated.
- Do not stuff a feature list into the title. A title should express only one promise most worth clicking.
Output Method
When the user only asks for titles and does not specify a quantity, output by default:
首选标题: 1;备选标题: 5, arranged in recommended order;关键词: list only the main keyword and optional secondary keywords;首选理由: explain its viral point in one sentence, without showing the internal scoring process.
Do not output article diagnosis, score tables, lengthy strategy, or risk reports by default. Show necessary evidence only when the user explicitly asks for analysis, review, or comparison.
If the user provides only a topic but the information is sufficient for naming, generate directly based on existing facts; if even the core object or article conclusion cannot be determined, ask only one most critical question. When rewriting an existing title, first retain the most distinctive keyword or fact in it, then compress and enhance the viral point.