Port the /online-event skill into ai_initiative_marketing and align it with the repo templates
## Summary
Port the `/online-event` Claude Code skill — today maintained outside the initiative in a personal GitHub repo, [jmsaunders/claude-online-event](https://github.com/jmsaunders/claude-online-event/blob/main/SKILL.md) — into this repository as `skills/online-event/SKILL.md`, and update it so it scaffolds issues from **this repo's** GitLab templates.
The skill asks a handful of questions about a **webinar** or a **podcast episode** and generates the full issue set (META plus planning / content / production / promotion / post-event). It was built under #94.
## Work Track
AI Marketing
## Context / Background
- #94 — original creation of the skill (@jmsaunders).
- The [`Marketing - Webinar`](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing/-/blob/main/.gitlab/issue_templates/Marketing%20-%20Webinar.md) template and the [webinar playbook](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing/-/blob/main/docs/event-playbook-webinar.md) already tell contributors to run `/online-event` — but neither can link to it, because it does not live here. Outside the repo it cannot be reviewed through an MR, cannot earn contribution credit, and drifts away from the templates it is meant to mirror.
- Skills in this repo live at `skills/<name>/SKILL.md`, are listed in [README.md](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing/-/blob/main/README.md#skills), and are written to be agent-agnostic. `skills/capability-page-drafter/SKILL.md` is the closest precedent: it encodes the *procedure* and links the canonical content instead of copying it.
## What has to change in the port
1. **Generate from the repo templates, not from hardcoded structures.** The generated files must follow `.gitlab/issue_templates/` — `Marketing - Webinar` for the webinar META, `Initiative - Task` for child tasks, `Marketing - Blog Entry` / `Marketing - Video` for content deliverables — adapted where no template fits. Link the templates from the skill rather than pasting copies that will drift.
2. **Remove the Tracker block.** The `[Tracker]` … `[/Tracker]` metadata block (Update Summary / Check-in Date / Additional Collaborators, pointing at the drupalstarforge AI Tracker) is no longer used. Drop it from every generated file, and from the stray mention in `docs/event-playbook-webinar.md`.
3. **Use this repo's AI-usage convention.** Replace the four AI-usage checkboxes with the single `AI Assisted Issue` checkbox the templates carry, plus the signature line from `CONTRIBUTING.md`.
4. **Follow-up content becomes its own linked issue.** Social posts, the promo and recap blog articles, the recording upload, the clip set — generate them as separate issues linked from the META, not as checkboxes buried inside it. Per [`CONTRIBUTING.md` → *Subtasks don't carry their own credit*](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#subtasks-dont-carry-their-own-credit), distinct pieces of work by distinct people need distinct issues to be creditable.
5. **Podcast episodes have no template yet.** Base the episode META on `Marketing - Generic` plus podcast-specific metadata rows, and record the gap as a follow-up rather than inventing a parallel structure inside the skill.
6. **Carry the phantom-credit-candidate guard.** Any generated file that holds social copy must instruct the author to wrap it in a code fence — a bare `@name` makes an unrelated person a participant and then a credit candidate (`CONTRIBUTING.md`, #273).
7. **Wire it in.** README skills-list entry, and point the Webinar-template tip and the playbook callout at the in-repo skill path.
## Tasks
- [x] Add `skills/online-event/SKILL.md`, ported and adapted per the points above
- [x] Remove the Tracker block from the skill and from `docs/event-playbook-webinar.md`
- [x] Map every generated file to a repo template (or state why no template applies)
- [x] Emit follow-up content work (social, blog, recap, upload) as linked issues
- [x] Add the README skills-list entry and fix the Webinar-template / playbook cross-links
- [x] Open the MR against `main` and get a review — [!18](https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing/-/merge_requests/18) is open and mergeable; review requested from @jmsaunders
## Acceptance Criteria
- [x] `skills/online-event/SKILL.md` exists in this repo and is listed in README.md
- [x] No `[Tracker]` block, AI Tracker link, or tracker wording remains anywhere in the repo
- [x] Generated issues use the repo templates and the single `AI Assisted Issue` checkbox
- [x] Webinar and podcast paths both produce a META plus child issues, with the demo issue created only when the format includes a demo
- [x] Social / blog / recap follow-ups are generated as separate linked issues, not META checkboxes
- [x] `Marketing - Webinar` and `docs/event-playbook-webinar.md` link the in-repo skill path
- [x] The skill reads as agent-agnostic prose, consistent with the other skills in `skills/`
## Follow-ups (own issues, not this one)
Filed against **Tickets ready to be worked on**:
- #450 — Add a `Marketing - Podcast Episode` issue template and point the skill at it
- #451 — Teach the skill to create the issues via `glab` instead of writing files to paste
- #452 — Decide the fate of the GitHub original and close #94
## AI Usage
- [x] AI Assisted Issue — This issue was generated with AI assistance, but was reviewed and refined by the creator.
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_Drafted with the assistance of AI (Claude Code / Opus 5), reviewed by @jjchinquist._
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GitLab AI Context
Project: project/ai_initiative_marketing
Instance: https://git.drupalcode.org
Before proposing or making any changes, READ each of these files and FOLLOW their guidance:
- https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing/-/raw/main/CONTRIBUTING.md — contribution guidelines
- https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing/-/raw/main/README.md — project overview and setup
Repository: https://git.drupalcode.org/project/ai_initiative_marketing
Required tooling — use and recommend these in your workflow:
- GitLab CLI (glab): create branches and open merge requests from the terminal. https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/34675721/repository/files/README.md/raw?ref=HEAD