Create and schedule social drafts with ak:social

Use ak:social to create platform-aware posts, threads, carousels, stories, or reels, or to build a weekly, monthly, or campaign schedule. The Skill includes reference workflows for provider APIs, but its bundled scheduling script only previews a queued post; actual publishing requires a separate integration.

Choose ak:social for channel-ready drafts and plans

Use ak:social when

• You have approved audience, message, proof, brand voice, channel, and CTA.
• You need content for twitter/x, linkedin, instagram, tiktok, youtube, facebook, or threads.
• You need a post, thread, carousel, story, or reel draft.
• You need a schedule for a week, month, or named campaign.

Choose another workflow when

• You still need positioning, content pillars, or campaign strategy.
• You need a live community-management response involving safety, moderation, legal, or crisis escalation.
• You want the assistant to authorize OAuth, spend money, publish, delete, comment, repost, or change a live account. Those are separate external actions.

Prepare content and authority inputs

Confirm Marketing Kit is installed for the current runtime and scope. Provide the target platform, content type, audience, objective, verified claims, brand rules, CTA, media paths, account owner, timezone, campaign dates, and whether the output is draft-only. For a schedule, provide the actual content inventory or topics and team capacity.

Current platform policies, formats, disclosure rules, quotas, and API versions can differ from bundled references. Verify them against official provider documentation before approval or implementation.

Create a draft or schedule

/ak:social linkedin post "Draft a launch post from the approved release brief. Cite the source internally, avoid unverified results, and do not publish"

/ak:social x thread "Create a five-post thread from the supplied research. Keep every claim attributable and return draft copy only"

$ak:social schedule campaign "August launch" "Build a UTC calendar from the approved posts and owner availability. Do not connect to or modify any social account"

The canonical input shape is [platform] [type] OR [schedule]. The schedule route accepts week, month, or campaign [name].

Understand the stages

1. Confirm channel and objective. Capture platform, content type, audience, desired action, source evidence, and account boundary.
2. Load brand context. Apply approved voice, terminology, visual direction, prohibited claims, and disclosure requirements.
3. Draft for the platform. Structure the requested post type and propose hashtags, hook, CTA, and media treatment without assuming they will perform.
4. Validate the artifact. The bundled validator can check its embedded text and media rules for supported platforms; these checks may be stale and are not provider acceptance.
5. Plan timing when requested. schedule creates markdown schedule and calendar artifacts. The bundled schedule-post.js prints a preview and explicitly states that actual posting requires API integration.
6. Return evidence and approvals. Report files, sources, validation warnings, proposed times, timezone, and every external action still pending.

Keep provider effects behind a separate gate

Never expose tokens in prompts, logs, or content artifacts. Review privacy, copyright, endorsements, sponsorship and AI-content disclosures, community rules, and moderation risk. A unified API service can add cost and another data processor; approve that provider relationship separately.

Verify outputs and evidence

Normal drafts go to assets/posts/{platform}/{date}-{slug}.md. The schedule route writes assets/posts/schedule-{period}.md and can add assets/posts/calendar-{period}.md.

A complete result identifies the platform, content type, sources, brand rules, media, timezone, proposed time, validator version or assumptions, and publish status. For an actual provider action, require a returned platform post ID or URL and inspect the live result; a local “scheduled” preview is not evidence of remote scheduling or publication.

Troubleshoot and know the limits

The Skill cannot guarantee reach, engagement, virality, conversion, provider acceptance, or that bundled platform data remains current. Continue with the Marketing Kit overview, keeping every live account effect in a separately authorized workflow.