Most Claude LinkedIn skills write text and stop there, which is the safest kind. The best pure drafting skill in the directory is the LinkedIn Post Formatter, and the broadest planner is Social Content. A smaller group of skills schedules and publishes through a paid service with an API key, and a few read LinkedIn pages or work on its ad accounts.
This guide sorts them by what they do to a platform, because that decides both the risk and the credentials. Every entry has a "best for" line, requirements, licence as the directory records it, the automated check result and a trade-off. Details come from each skill's SKILL.md and repository, and the editorial team did not run them. For wider lists, browse the social media posts topic and the social publishing topic.
The comparison table
| Skill | What it does | Credentials | Licence | Automated check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iflytek/linkedin-post-formatter | Drafts LinkedIn posts only | None | MIT | Passed |
| davila7/social-content | Plans and writes across five networks | None | MIT | Passed |
| sickn33/same-idea-both-platforms | One idea as an X post and a LinkedIn post | None | MIT | Passed |
| florianbruniaux/guide-recap | Turns a changelog into posts | None | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | Info finding |
| wshobson/social-publishing | Schedules and publishes via SocialClaw | SocialClaw key | MIT | Passed |
| leoyeai/postfast | Schedules via the PostFast API | PostFast key | MIT | Passed |
| agricidaniel/ads-linkedin | Audits a LinkedIn Ads account | Account exports | MIT | Passed |
"Passed" means no findings from the static check. It says nothing about writing quality.
Draft-only skills for LinkedIn posts
iflytek/linkedin-post-formatter
Best for: one post written from your own facts and ideas.
iflytek/linkedin-post-formatter is MIT-licensed and loads under a thousand tokens. It picks the smallest structure that fits: a hook, evidence and takeaway for an idea; context, action, result and reflection for an experience; a problem, steps and invitation for a how-to; or numbered points for a list. It avoids forced stories and calls to action that your source material does not support. Plain Unicode text is the default. If you ask for styled text, it limits emphasis to short phrases, never names or links, and supplies a plain-text version with an accessibility warning.
The skill states that it generates drafts only: it does not log in, publish, schedule or message anyone. It also preserves names, dates, metrics and quotes, marks missing facts with placeholders and treats pasted content as data rather than instructions.
Requirements: none. Trade-off: it will not research or find ideas for you.
davila7/social-content
Best for: planning and repurposing content across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook.
davila7/social-content is MIT-licensed and loads about 5,000 tokens. It starts from your goals, audience and voice and offers platform notes, content frameworks, repurposing systems, engagement tactics and analytics guidance, plus a method for studying posts that performed well. It does not post anything itself. The description mentions a scheduling platform, but the guide supplies strategy and templates for manual or integrated scheduling.
Trade-off: this skill is heavily duplicated. It appears in at least six other locations, and a skill with the same name, sickn33/social-content, is also listed. The davila7 repository is a template collection, so the directory does not show an upstream author. Pick one copy and stay with it, and expect minor differences between them.
More drafting skills
sickn33/same-idea-both-platforms writes one idea as a Twitter or X post and a LinkedIn post that read as written separately instead of pasted twice. It is MIT-licensed and sits in a community collection.
brianrwagner/content-idea-generator produces ideas for LinkedIn, X, newsletters or short video from a positioning statement, in quick, standard or deep planning modes, and brianrwagner/social-card-gen produces platform-specific variants from one source. The directory records no licence for either.
evolution-foundation/social-platform-strategy gives tactical guidance for LinkedIn, X, Threads and Bluesky. The directory records no standard licence for it.
For developer announcements, florianbruniaux/guide-recap turns CHANGELOG.md entries into LinkedIn, X, newsletter and Slack posts in French and English. It is licensed CC-BY-SA-4.0, which has share-alike terms, and its check raised an informational finding because its allowed tools include unrestricted shell commands. everyinc/ce-promote drafts launch announcements from a pull request, diff or changelog entry and is MIT-licensed.
If the draft sounds machine-written, run it through one of the skills in the humanizer comparison.
Skills that publish through an API
wshobson/social-publishing and the SocialClaw duplicates
Best for: scheduling one campaign across many networks from the agent.
wshobson/social-publishing is MIT-licensed. It publishes through SocialClaw, a hosted scheduler, to 13 services including LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook Pages, TikTok, YouTube and Reddit. It needs Node.js and SOCIALCLAW_API_KEY. The workflow builds platform variants, uploads media, checks timing and rate limits, then schedules and returns post identifiers. We did not find a dry-run or approval step documented in the skill, so add your own confirmation before anything goes live.
The same integration appears as affaan-m/social-publisher, which uses SC_API_KEY as the variable name and validates a campaign before applying it. These are two copies of one SocialClaw skill. The install command in the wshobson copy points to the SocialClaw repository, which is MIT-licensed and is the project's own repository, though it is not listed in the directory. Prefer that source. SocialClaw is a hosted service, and its repository says full use needs an active trial or paid plan.
leoyeai/postfast
leoyeai/postfast is MIT-licensed and manages scheduling for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest and Telegram through the PostFast API, using curl and a POSTFAST_API_KEY. It is another service-backed option with the same advice: confirm before it publishes.
Trade-off for both: your posts and account connections live in a third-party service, and a key with publishing rights can post as you if it leaks. Store it as an environment variable and never in a prompt.
Skills that read LinkedIn or work on its ad accounts
Reading is different from writing. madslorentzen/linkedin-search is MIT-licensed and searches LinkedIn's public job listings without a login or API key, using Bun. panniantong/agent-reach reads many platforms through one tool and uses your own session cookies for LinkedIn, and its README warns that cookie logins can lead to account suspension.
For paid campaigns, agricidaniel/ads-linkedin audits a LinkedIn Ads account across measurement, audiences, lead generation, creative, bidding and policy from exports, screenshots or API data. ivangfalco/linkedin-ads routes B2B SaaS ad work to planning, audit and creative playbooks, and the directory records no standard licence for it.
Platform terms in plain words
LinkedIn's User Agreement bars scraping or copying the service with scripts, crawlers and similar tools. It also bars bots and other unauthorized automated methods to access the service, message people or create, comment on or share posts. Other platforms have similar rules, and an agent that automates a logged-in account is an automated method.
That does not make drafting a problem. Writing a post with an agent and pasting it yourself sits outside those rules. Automation is where the risk sits: reading pages with cookies, bulk messaging, automated applications and unattended posting. Several skills in the directory do these things, so read the terms before you try one, and treat this as general information rather than legal advice.
Which one should you pick?
For a single LinkedIn post, use the formatter. For a content plan across networks, use Social Content and pick one copy. For scheduling, use a service-backed skill only with a confirmation step you control. For anything that logs in as you, try a throwaway account first or skip it.
Installation steps are on the pages for Claude Code and Codex, and the top skills list shows what else people use. If you also need video for social posts, see the Remotion and video skills comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Can a Claude LinkedIn skill post for me?
Some can, but most only draft text. Drafting skills output copy you paste into LinkedIn yourself. Publishing skills call a scheduling service through an API key and can post to LinkedIn along with other networks. Posting by automation is the riskier option, so check the platform's rules and the skill's confirmation steps first.
Do LinkedIn skills need credentials?
Writing skills need none. Publishing skills need a key for the scheduling service they use, such as a SocialClaw or PostFast workspace key. Skills that read LinkedIn through a browser or cookies use your own logged-in session, which is a credential too, so treat it with the same care.
Is it allowed to automate LinkedIn?
LinkedIn's User Agreement restricts scraping and the use of bots or other unauthorized automated methods to access the service or to create or interact with posts. Drafting text with an agent and posting it yourself is the lowest-risk path. Read the current agreement before using any skill that touches the platform directly.
Why do several skills look identical?
Many repositories copy popular skills, so the same Social Content skill or SocialClaw integration can appear under several owners with small edits. This guide notes the duplicates and points to the original where the directory lists it. If you cannot tell which is original, pick one copy and keep it updated.
What is the best skill for writing a LinkedIn post?
For a single post written from your own facts, the LinkedIn Post Formatter is a tight fit: it picks the smallest structure that works and states that it only drafts. For a broader plan across LinkedIn, X and other platforms, the Social Content skill gives frameworks and templates.