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---
name: linkedin-marketing
description: "Plan, draft, audit, and publish LinkedIn posts and comments. Use when the user wants to write a viral LinkedIn post, draft a comment or reply on any LinkedIn post URL, audit a draft against 2026 algorithm heuristics, remove AI tells, extract hook formulas from viral posts, or plan a week of content. Powered by the Publora API for publishing. User provides post/comment URLs, skill drafts content, user approves, then publishes."
---

# LinkedIn Marketing Skills

A bundle of 11 focused skills for LinkedIn content ops in 2026, built for Claude Code and Codex. Each skill is single-purpose, follows the draft → approval → publish pattern, and uses the [Publora API](https://publora.com) for posting.

## When to use this bundle

- **Writing a viral post** → use `linkedin-post-writer`
- **Commenting on someone else's post** → use `linkedin-comment-drafter`
- **Replying to a comment** (yours or someone else's), or sweeping and replying to an entire comment thread from just the post URL → use `linkedin-reply-handler`
- **Reviewing a draft before publishing, removing AI tells, scoring AI emoji density, defending a flagged rule, or running 5 AI detectors in parallel** → use `linkedin-humanizer` (rewrite + `--mode audit` pre-publish review; folds in the former post-audit, emoji-detector, rules-explainer, and detector-tester sub-tools)
- **Extracting a hook formula from a viral post** → use `linkedin-hook-extractor`
- **Planning a week of LinkedIn content** → use `linkedin-content-planner`
- **Tracking which of your comments got author replies** → use `linkedin-thread-monitor`
- **Analyzing who liked / commented on any post (audience segmentation)** → use `linkedin-engager-analytics`
- **Auditing / rewriting a LinkedIn profile** → use `linkedin-profile-optimizer`
- **Running an employee advocacy program across a marketing team** → use `linkedin-employee-advocacy`
- **Adapting content from another platform (tweet, video, blog) into a native LinkedIn post** → use `linkedin-repurposer`
- **Working out what you actually have to say, or having nothing concrete for a draft to use** → use `linkedin-interviewer`. It interviews you and keeps the answers in `references/story-bank.md`, which every writing skill reads. Start here if you have never posted: the voice profile needs posts you already wrote, the Story Bank only needs a career.

## Founders edition

For founders building trust with investors, hires, and design partners, the bundle ships a dedicated founder layer:

- **`references/founder-topics.md`** — 10 founder content **angles** (A1-A10) as fill-in templates: reprice the category, content-to-pipeline, audience of one, the scarce-shots math, the unglamorous bet, the limit of delegation, designed serendipity, the evasive-sentence test, the delegation line, the learning gate. Each maps to a primary goal and a hook formula.
- **4 structural formulas (F17-F20)** in `references/hook-formulas.md` — controlled A/B anecdote, false-binary dissolve, anecdote-meets-evidence bridge, diverging-curves close. They shape a post's logic rather than its topic and back the founder angles.
- **A founders-edition pillar set** (Conviction / Building in public / The math / Proof) in `linkedin-content-planner`.

`linkedin-post-writer` offers a founder angle before picking a formula when the writer is a founder; `linkedin-content-planner` asks "founder plan or general plan?" and swaps the pillar set. The founder angles compound trust with a narrow, high-value audience instead of chasing broad reach.

## Core pattern

Every action-taking skill follows three steps:

1. **Parse the input.** User provides a LinkedIn URL (post or comment). The skill uses `lib/url_parser.py` to extract the post URN and any comment ID.
2. **Draft the content.** The skill uses the 2026 research (hooks, timing, voice rules, 360Brew heuristics) to produce a draft and shows it to the user.
3. **Wait for approval.** The user replies with "post", "yes", or suggests edits. Only after explicit approval does the skill call the Publora API to publish.

## Prerequisites

**Three tiers — pick one.**

### 🟢 Tier 0 — Draft only (default, no setup)

The skills work out of the box. No API keys, no signup. Every approved draft is returned as a copy-paste block with the target LinkedIn URL — paste it yourself. Great for trying the skills before committing to any backend.

### 🔵 Tier 1 — Publora auto-post (recommended, ~2 min)

On approval, skills auto-publish to LinkedIn (and optionally X, Threads) via the [Publora API](https://publora.com). Free tier includes 15 LinkedIn posts/month — more than most creators need.

**Two ways in.** On claude.ai or Claude Code, authorize the **Publora connector** in your connector settings: one click, no key on disk, and it carries `post_stats` and `profile_stats` which the REST path does not. Anywhere else, use the API key below. `scripts/check_config.py` reads `.env` and the shell only, so a connector is invisible to it; if it says "manual" while your posts go out, the connector is doing the work.

1. Sign up free: **https://app.publora.com/signup**
2. Connect your LinkedIn account in Publora (Channels → Add Channel)
3. Copy your API key from Publora's API panel
4. Drop into `.env`:
   ```
   PUBLORA_API_KEY=sk_...
   LINKEDIN_PLATFORM_ID=linkedin-...
   ```
5. Run `pip install -r requirements.txt`

Why Publora: LinkedIn has three URN types (activity/share/ugcPost), a reaction-bug where `INSIGHTFUL` returns 400, and a 2-level thread-flattening quirk that breaks most third-party implementations. Publora handles all of it. We built on top of their API so we didn't have to.

### ⚫ Tier 2 — Build your own poster (advanced)

Prefer not to SaaS it? Ask Claude Code or Codex to build a custom poster (Playwright, LinkedIn's official API, or another scheduler). Set `LINKEDIN_SKILLS_CUSTOM_POSTER=<your command>` and the skills will invoke it on approval. This is a weekend of work. Publora is 2 minutes

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