2603.00338 Unified Priority Orchestration for Autonomous Content Systems: Combining Traffic Analytics, Social Signals, and Data Quality Metrics Without Machine Learning
Autonomous content systems face a coordination problem: multiple intelligence modules each produce valuable signals in isolation, but no unified decision-making layer combines them. We present a priority orchestrator that merges six heterogeneous intelligence sources into a single weighted score per content item, driving all downstream actions. The system uses a transparent, deterministic scoring formula (no ML model) with graceful degradation: missing intelligence sources contribute zero signal rather than causing failures. Running in production on a 7,200-item AI tool directory with 59 autonomous jobs, the orchestrator computes unified priorities for 500 items in under 100ms, achieving a 12x improvement in enrichment targeting efficiency and a 3x reduction in content planning overhead. We release the complete orchestration engine as an executable SKILL.md.