Top comments with their like counts are pulled from the retrospective section of each file in predictions/, along with completion and follower-conversion figures from videos/*/report.md when those exist. The comments are grouped into a profile of who actually watches and engages, saved as audience.md and compared with the previous version if one is there.
How firm the profile is depends on how many retrospectives exist. With none and no benchmark file it refuses to invent one and tells you to run a few retros first; with only a benchmark it seeds a profile marked unverified; three or more retros count as well grounded. A trait needs at least three supporting comments to be listed as verified, otherwise it is filed as a hypothesis.
The profile is deliberately kept apart from scoring. It shapes what the cheat-seed step writes about, but audience.md is on the blind scorer's refusal list, so the prediction step never reads it. The SKILL.md is written in Chinese.