# Social Carousel

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-inklate-social-skills-social-carousel`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [inklate](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/inklate)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [inklate](https://github.com/inklate)
- **Source:** https://github.com/inklate/social-skills/tree/main/skills/social-carousel
- **Website:** https://inklate.com

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-inklate-social-skills-social-carousel
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

Given source material or a topic, produce a full carousel script — cover hook, 6–10 content slides, recap, CTA — with a design note and image prompt per slide.

## Context

Read `social-context.md` (also check `.agents/social-context.md`) before drafting. You need:

- Brand voice: vocabulary, capitalization habits, whether slides may joke
- Audience: expertise level, which determines how much a single slide can assume
- The Never list, if present: red lines that disqualify a slide or a caption

`social-context.md` does not carry visual identity, so ask the user directly for colors, type feel, and illustration-vs-photo — one question alongside the platform question in step 1.

If the file is missing, offer to run the `social-context` skill first — but do not block. Ask two or three quick questions inline (Instagram or LinkedIn? Who reads this? Any visual style words — minimal, bold, hand-drawn?) and proceed.

## Workflow

1. **Ask the platform first.** Instagram (1080×1350 portrait, tap-through, big type) and LinkedIn (document/PDF, often landscape or square, denser text tolerated) are different media. Do not draft a generic script and relabel it. If the user already named the platform, skip ahead.
2. **Extract one narrative arc from the source.** A carousel carries exactly one argument: problem → tension → resolution, or claim → evidence → payoff. If the source contains three arguments, pick the strongest and say which two you dropped.
3. **Write the cover slide.** It is a hook, not a title: eight words or fewer of large text, optionally a small kicker line. "5 onboarding mistakes" is a title; "Your onboarding is losing users on day one" is a cover. The cover must work as a standalone feed image, because that is how most people will encounter it.
4. **Outline the content slides before writing them.** One idea per slide, in escalating order — strongest point second-to-last, never first. Instagram: 6–8 content slides. LinkedIn: 8–10 is fine; readers expect more substance in a document post. Show the outline as one line per slide and let the user cut or reorder before you invest in full drafts.
5. **Draft each content slide at ≤25 words.** Constraints that keep slides swipeable:
   - Self-contained: each slide parses without its neighbors, because screenshots travel alone.
   - Pull-through: end slides on tension or an open loop where the material allows it.
   - Front-load the slide's noun; no slide begins with "Also", "And", or "Another thing".
   - One number or one image concept per slide — a slide that needs both is two slides.
6. **Write the recap slide.** Compress the arc into 3–5 checklist lines the reader can screenshot. This is the most-saved slide; make it worth saving.
7. **Write the CTA slide.** Instagram: ask for a save or a share ("Save this for your next launch"), plus follow. LinkedIn: ask a discussion question that invites comments, plus follow. One ask primary, never three equal asks.
8. **Attach a design note to every slide.** Three parts, all concrete:
   - **Layout** — text position, alignment, margins ("headline top-third, left-aligned, generous bottom margin").
   - **Visual metaphor** — the one image or diagram that carries the idea ("iceberg with 'signup' above the waterline, 'activation' below").
   - **Text placement** — what is large, what is small, and the single emphasis word or number that gets the accent treatment.
     Keep every note executable by someone who never read the source: "left-aligned headline top-third, iceberg illustration lower-right, the phrase 'day one' in accent color".
9. **Attach an image-generation prompt to every slide** that a designer or image model can run as-is:
   - Subject and composition ("flat illustration of a doorway with a welcome mat, centered, seen straight-on")
   - Style and palette hint, consistent across all slides — one visual system, not ten
   - The explicit instruction to leave clear negative space where the slide text sits
10. **Swipe-check the whole script.** Read only the slide texts in order, ignoring the design notes. The argument must survive on copy alone; if it does not, fix the copy, not the visuals. Then check the reverse: would the visuals alone tell roughly the same story? Finally, check the full script and the caption against every row of the Quality bar and against the Never list — fix any slide or caption that fails a row or trips a red line.
11. **Write the accompanying caption or post text last.** Its first line is a second hook (do not repeat the cover verbatim); it adds one piece of context the slides omit, then hands off: "swipe through".

## Quality bar

|                 | Instagram                        | LinkedIn                                         |
| --------------- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Canvas          | 1080×1350 (4:5 portrait)         | Document/PDF; square or landscape pages          |
| Total slides    | 8–10 (cover + 6–8 + recap + CTA) | 10–12 (cover + 8–10 + recap + CTA)               |
| Words per slide | ≤25, display-sized type          | ≤25 headline; a short support line is acceptable |
| Cover           | Feed-stopping image + ≤8 words   | Bold typographic cover; reads at thumbnail size  |
| Hashtags        | In the caption, never on slides  | None on slides; 0–3 in the post text             |

- Text on slides must be legible at thumbnail size — if a design note implies more than ~3 lines of large text, split the slide.
- No slide may require the previous slide to parse.
- Numbers, arrows, and simple diagrams beat stock-photo metaphors.
- One emphasis element per slide: a single accent word, number, or arrow — two emphases is zero emphases.
- Slide transitions earn the swipe: at least a third of content slides should end on tension or an open loop.
- Alt-text-friendly: every image prompt describes a concrete scene, not "abstract vibes".
- The recap slide is screenshot bait — checklist formatting, no new information, no cleverness.

## Deliverable

Return, in order:

1. One line naming the platform, the narrative arc, and the slide count.
2. The script as a numbered list, one block per slide: **Slide N — [role]**, then **Text:** (the exact copy), **Design:** (layout + metaphor + text placement), **Image prompt:** (ready to run as-is).
3. The post caption (Instagram) or post text (LinkedIn), hook line first.

Nothing else — end there.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [inklate](https://github.com/inklate)
- **Source:** [inklate/social-skills](https://github.com/inklate/social-skills)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://inklate.com

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-inklate-social-skills-social-carousel
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/inklate
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