Free skill file, Claude Code
A free Claude Code skill that turns your brand photos into polished Instagram carousels in your own voice. No Canva. No templates that look like everyone else's.
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Most carousel tools give you the same colour-block templates everyone else is using. This one uses your real brand photos and writes copy that's been checked against your own voice rules.
Generic carousel tools
Your carousel maker
No coding skills. No design software. No paid subscriptions beyond your existing Claude plan.
Required
Claude Code desktop app, free to download from claude.ai
Required
3 to 5 brand photos, you, your workspace, or lifestyle shots that feel like your brand
Required
Your brand hex colour codes (e.g. #3A131B)
Required
Google Font names for your headline and body fonts
Not needed
Coding skills, design software, or HTML knowledge
Not needed
A Canva account, this replaces it entirely for carousels
The first time you run the skill, it walks you through a short setup. You answer eight questions. It saves everything to a brand config file and never asks again.
Your brand name and the name that appears on the final slide sign-off.
Appears on every slide automatically, top left.
Primary, secondary, accent, background, and text. Saved once, applied to every carousel.
Paste the font name and Google Fonts URL. Free fonts only, no licensing headaches.
Drop 3–5 brand photos into photos/my-brand/ before setup. The skill picks from them at random for each carousel.
The word people comment to get your link (e.g. CAROUSEL), and what the CTA slide says after it.
Words or phrases you never want in your copy. The skill checks against this list before showing you anything.
Every headline in your carousel has exactly one italicised word. The punchline. The word that carries the most weight or surprise in the sentence.
This is what makes carousels look considered rather than generated. It's baked into every slide the skill produces, and you choose which word gets the emphasis when you write your copy.
When a reader scrolls through your carousel, the italic word slows them down at exactly the right moment. It's a small thing that changes how the whole post lands.
You don't need to think bigger.
The italic word challenges the assumption. The whole sentence lands differently because of it.
Sharper beats bigger.
The verb is the reveal. Italic emphasis makes the reader pause at exactly the right moment.
The advice was written for someone else.
The sting is in the last word. Without the italic, it almost disappears. With it, it lands.
There's an approval gate after the copy is written so your voice stays intact before anything gets rendered. Nothing moves forward until you say so.
Say "create a carousel about [your topic]" in Claude Code. The skill reads your brand config and writes seven slides in your voice, with one italicised emphasis word per headline.
The skill shows you all seven slides before anything is rendered. Edit lines, swap words, or start fresh. The render doesn't begin until you explicitly approve.
The approval gate is why your carousels sound like you. Claude writes the first draft, you have the final word.
The skill picks seven photos at random from your brand folder. Different combination each carousel, so your feed doesn't look repetitive even when you're posting frequently.
Your copy, photos, colours, and fonts are injected into the HTML template. A headless browser renders each slide as a full-resolution screenshot using Playwright, the same approach that powers the most reliable browser automation tools in the world.
1080×1350px Instagram-ready PNGs. The export folder opens in Finder automatically so you can grab them straight away. No re-exporting, no resizing, no Canva.
Every carousel follows the same shape: one hook, five statements, one CTA. The skill knows this structure and writes to it automatically.
One sentence, 5–10 words. One italicised emphasis word. No subhead. The job of slide 1 is to stop the scroll, nothing else.
Headline: 5–9 words with one italic word. Subhead: 8–14 words that extend the thought. One idea per slide.
Auto-generated from your brand config. "Comment '[keyword]' [your tail text]" followed by your signature name.
Every headline and subhead is scanned against your banned phrases list. If anything matches, the skill rewrites it before showing you the copy.
You'll get it in your inbox after signing up above. It's a zip file, everything the skill needs is inside.
Unzip into ~/.claude/skills/. This folder is created automatically when you first install Claude Code.
The wizard runs once, captures your brand, and the skill is ready. After that, say "create a carousel about [topic]" to make your first one.
One dependency: the skill uses Playwright to render slides. If it's not already installed, the setup wizard will give you a one-line install command. Takes about 2 minutes.
Once your PNGs are ready, Blotato can publish them straight to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Threads on a schedule. It's what I use to post everything I make with this skill. Connect it once in Claude Code and the two tools work together automatically.
Inside the Wise Women Use AI Skool community, I've documented the full content workflow I run every week. It goes from a single topic brief all the way through to carousels, talking head scripts, editorial posts, email content, and scheduled publishing.
One chain, one topic, one sitting.
The carousel maker is the piece that's easiest to release as a standalone tool. Which is why it's the one I made available here. If you want to see what the whole system looks like, it lives inside the community in a document I call the full content workflow.
Skool community
The carousel maker is skill three. The community is where the other six live.
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I work with a small number of clients to build custom Claude Code systems, content workflows, and automation pipelines tailored to their business.
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