open-design-social-post
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Design a social media post (X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Xiaohongshu, Stories/Reels, YouTube thumbnail or video) and export upload-ready files — use whenever the user wants something to post on social media (an X/Twitter image, Instagram or LinkedIn post or carousel, Xiaohongshu cards, a Story/Reels cover, a YouTube thumbnail or video), even if they don't mention Open Design
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
8 rules. About 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 13
Use the user's own words. If they say "artifact", "design tokens" or give a file path, use those terms back.
- Very specific: line 14
Keep the machinery out of replies: no tool names, no ids like od:prototype:poster-hero, no internal files (.artifact.json, .comments.json, …
- Distinctive: line 33
If the brief names a platform or format, use it.
- Distinctive: line 57
Use real copy from the brief, with no lorem ipsum.
- Distinctive: line 58
No external image URLs unless the user supplied them.
- Distinctive: line 59
No emoji as key visuals. They render from the exporting machine's fonts and can come out as empty boxes.
- Very specific: line 63
Call register_open_design_artifact with the entry path, kind html, a title, sourceSkillId set to the row's skillId, and the same format you …
- Very specific: line 68
YouTube video: follow the brief's "Host override" section.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 308,232 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
<!-- generated:open-design-agent-kit -->Design a social media post with Open Design and export files that are ready to upload.
Brief: the rest of the user's message (if there is none, ask the user: "What should the post say, and for which platform?")
How to talk to the user. Many people using Open Design don't write code, so:
- Use the user's own words. If they say "artifact", "design tokens" or give a file path, use those terms back; otherwise use the plain words below.
- Keep the machinery out of replies: no tool names, no ids like
od:prototype:poster-hero, no internal files (.artifact.json,.comments.json,config.json), and not the words "register", "manifest", "sidecar", "entry" or "surface", unless the user used them first. - Explain a print term the first time it comes up, in one short clause, and not again.
- Say where a file is the way the user would find it ("in your Open Design folder, under seed-swap-flyer"). Give a raw path only where the user can click it (Claude Code, Claude Desktop's Code tab, VS Code) or asks for it.
- End each reply that finishes a step with one line on what they can do next, with at most two options ("Want it in Instagram sizes too, or is it ready to print?").
| Instead of | Say |
| artifact, entry, registered | your design, saved |
| design system, active design system | your style (the first time: "a saved style: colours, fonts and spacing") |
| surface, skill, template, recipe | kind of design, starting layout, or nothing |
| workspace, output directory | your folder, your Open Design folder |
| bleed | print edge ("a few millimetres extra that the printer trims off") |
| trim size | final size |
| preflight findings, errors | "I checked it and fixed…", "one thing to look at:" |
| export | save as PDF, save as an image |
| inline preview, MCP App | the preview above |
1. Pick the platform and format
If the brief names a platform or format, use it. Otherwise ask the user to pick one of the rows below before doing anything else. Don't guess.
| Format | Canvas | skillId | Export |
| X single image | 1600×900 | od:prototype:card-twitter | preset: "x-image" |
| X post mock (for a video overlay or quote) | card element | od:prototype:social-x-post-card | selector: "[data-od-card]", maxBytes: 5000000 |
| Square carousel (Instagram / LinkedIn) | 1080×1080 per card | od:prototype:social-carousel | preset: "ig-square" |
| Instagram portrait | 1080×1350 | od:prototype:poster-hero | preset: "ig-portrait" |
| Story / Reels / TikTok cover | 1080×1920 | od:prototype:poster-hero | preset: "story" |
| Xiaohongshu cards | 1080×1440 per card | od:prototype:card-xiaohongshu | preset: "xhs-card" |
| YouTube thumbnail | 1280×720 | od:prototype:social-youtube-thumbnail | preset: "yt-thumbnail" |
| YouTube video | 1920×1080 MP4 | od:video:hyperframes | MP4 via the HyperFrames CLI (see step 4) |
A preset fills in the canvas size, selector: "[data-od-card]" and the platform's upload limit (X 5 MB, Instagram 8 MB, YouTube thumbnail 2 MB).
For several platforms at once, run steps 2–4 once per format and keep each one as its own artifact.
2. Generate
Call prepare_open_design_brief with the row's skillId, the brief, and format set to the row's preset id (leave it out for the X post mock and YouTube video). Call list_open_design_design_systems first if the user names a brand or visual direction, or recommend_open_design_design_systems if they name none and no design system is active. For the X post mock, say in the brief that it is one card element.
Author the files yourself with your own file-editing tools, following the returned instructions, and add these rules for social posts:
- Each card or canvas is a fixed-size element at exactly the table's size with
overflow: hidden, and carries adata-od-cardattribute. For multi-card formats, stack the cards vertically in one HTML file, onedata-od-cardelement per card. - Use real copy from the brief, with no lorem ipsum. Keep text inside a 48px safe margin, and make the hook readable at thumbnail size.
- No external image URLs unless the user supplied them.
- No emoji as key visuals. They render from the exporting machine's fonts and can come out as empty boxes. Draw icons and subjects as inline SVG.
3. Register
Call register_open_design_artifact with the entry path, kind html, a title, sourceSkillId set to the row's skillId, and the same format you passed to the brief, so the export can find the right size.
4. Export
- Image formats: call
export_open_design_artifactwith the entry path and the row's export arguments. If its preflight reports errors (text cut off, a card that isn't the canvas size) or it returns warnings (failed fonts or images, over budget), fix the artifact and export again. Before exporting, callcheck_open_design_artifactto see the post as an image with its preflight findings, without writing files; fix every error first. - YouTube video: follow the brief's "Host override" section. Render with
npx hyperframes render … --output <artifact-dir>/exports/<name>.mp4, and checkffmpeg -versionfirst.
5. Report
List each exported file's path, pixel size, and file size, and remind the user of the post's copy (caption and hashtags) if you wrote any. Don't post anything anywhere yourself.
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