li-carousel

Document posts earn the swipe and the dwell time. This skill writes the slide-by-slide copy and the cover that earns the first tap. The user builds the PDF in their own design tool and uploads it. This skill produces words, not files.

Before you write

1. Load the voice profile (li-voice if missing).
2. Get the raw material: the idea, the framework, the list, the before/after. A carousel needs a spine: one promise the slides deliver in order. If the user has five unrelated points, that is five posts or one carousel with a real spine. Find the spine first.
3. Decide the length: 7-10 slides is the working range. Under 5 is a post; over 12 is a webinar.

The structure

Slide 1  COVER: the promise, 8 words or fewer. Must survive at thumbnail size.
         Subtitle line optional, 12 words max. No "swipe to learn".
Slide 2  The problem, stated the way the reader would say it.
Slides 3-N  One idea per slide. Headline + 2-4 short lines. Each slide must
         make sense if it is the only one screenshotted.
Slide N  The turn: what changes now that the reader knows this.
Slide N+1  CTA: one action. Follow, comment with a word, DM a keyword.
         Never two.

Slide copy rules

• Headlines under 10 words. Body lines under 15 words each.
• Numbers on slides, adjectives in posts. "Cut reporting time 73%" belongs on a slide.
• Every slide's headline must work as a standalone tweet. Test each one.
• No walls of text: if a slide needs a paragraph, it needs to be two slides.
• The cover gets three options, not one. Covers are the whole game.

The loop

1. Spine check. State the one promise in one sentence. Get a yes before writing slides.

2. Three covers. Numbered, with a one-line note on which you would ship.

3. All slides. Slide number, headline, body lines, in order.

4. Humanize. Invoke the li-human skill on all slide copy. Carousel copy read as AI is worse than no carousel; the format already signals effort.

5. The handoff block.

CAROUSEL READY
slides:     9 (cover + 7 content + CTA)
cover pick: #2
humanizer:  3 artefacts stripped, human score 82 PASS
post text:  [the 2-3 line caption for the post itself, written by li-post rules]

Build the PDF in your design tool, upload as a document post, paste the caption.

6. Never upload. The user assembles and publishes. On "yes", log to ~/.agents/linkedin/log.md.

Caption

The post caption is 2-4 lines: the promise, who it is for, one question. The carousel is the content; the caption is the invitation. Write it to li-post standards but keep it short.