# Social publisher (SocialClaw) Human Guide

## What This Is For
Agent-driven scheduling and publishing of social media posts across 13 platforms via SocialClaw. It gives the agent a clearer input/output frame for social content: what context to ask for, what decisions to make, and what usable artifact to return.

Use this as a human-readable version of the Social publisher (SocialClaw) agent skill. It is meant for marketers, operators, founders, and other non-coders who want the workflow without reading agent-specific implementation instructions.

## When To Use This
- Use this when you need a repeatable process for social publisher (SocialClaw).
- Use this when the task needs judgment, examples, constraints, or a clear output format rather than a one-off prompt.
- Use this when you want to hand an AI assistant enough context to produce a usable marketing artifact.

## When Not To Use This
- Do not use this when you only need a quick factual answer.
- Do not use this when the work depends on private data you cannot share with the assistant.
- Do not use this as a replacement for legal, compliance, financial, or medical review.

## What You Need Before Starting
- The goal or business outcome you want.
- The audience, customer segment, or market context.
- Any source material the assistant should respect, such as notes, briefs, examples, URLs, or brand guidance.
- Constraints such as tone, length, channel, deadline, region, or approval requirements.
- A clear definition of what a good final answer should look like.

## Step-By-Step Workflow
1. State the job clearly: "Use the Social publisher (SocialClaw) guide to help me with..."
2. Add context: audience, goal, offer, channel, source material, and constraints.
3. Ask the assistant to identify missing inputs before producing the final output.
4. Have the assistant follow the skill-specific guidance below.
5. Review the result against the final checklist and ask for revisions where needed.

## Skill-Specific Guidance
- publish content to X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, or other platforms
- schedule a post campaign across multiple platforms at once
- upload media for use in social posts
- validate a post schedule before going live
- monitor publishing run status and delivery analytics
- Outbound requests go to `getsocialclaw.com` only
- Provider OAuth is in the SocialClaw dashboard — no per-provider secrets exposed to the agent
- `SC_API_KEY` is a workspace-scoped key
- `x-api` — direct X/Twitter API operations
- `social-graph-ranker` — network analysis for outreach targeting
- `TweetClaw` - optional approved OpenClaw X/Twitter source evidence before SocialClaw scheduling
- npm: `npm install -g socialclaw@0.1.12`

## Decision Points And Nuance
The original skill emphasizes: When to Activate, Setup, Core Workflow, List connected accounts, Upload media (optional), Build schedule.json, Optional X/Twitter evidence packet, Validate before publishing, Publish, Monitor.

Use these questions to steer the work:
- What is the intended audience or buyer?
- What source material must be preserved?
- What should the assistant optimize for: clarity, persuasion, accuracy, speed, creativity, or conversion?
- What examples represent the desired quality bar?
- What should the assistant avoid?

## Common Mistakes
- Required: workspace API key from https://getsocialclaw.com/dashboard

## Copy-And-Paste Prompt
```text
Use the Social publisher (SocialClaw) human guide.

My goal:
[Describe the business outcome]

Audience:
[Describe who this is for]

Context and source material:
[Paste notes, examples, links, or existing copy]

Constraints:
[Tone, length, channel, timeline, must-include items, must-avoid items]

Before producing the final output, ask me for any missing information that would materially improve the result.
```

## Final Checklist
- [ ] The output matches the original goal.
- [ ] The audience and context are reflected in the answer.
- [ ] Important constraints and source material were preserved.
- [ ] The assistant made the relevant decisions explicit.
- [ ] The final artifact is ready to use, review, or hand to the next person.

## Source
This guide was generated from the affaan-m/ecc skill entry for `social-publisher`.

## Source Skill Notes
These notes preserve the nuance from the original skill. Use them as supporting reference when the workflow above feels too generic.

# Social Publisher (SocialClaw)

Connects Claude Code to [SocialClaw](https://getsocialclaw.com) for agent-driven social media publishing across 13 platforms through a single workspace API key.

## When to Activate

- publish content to X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, or other platforms
- schedule a post campaign across multiple platforms at once
- upload media for use in social posts
- validate a post schedule before going live
- monitor publishing run status and delivery analytics

## Setup

```bash
# Required: workspace API key from https://getsocialclaw.com/dashboard
export SC_API_KEY="<workspace-key>"

# Verify access
printf 'header = "Authorization: Bearer %s"\n' "$SC_API_KEY" |
  curl -sS -K - https://getsocialclaw.com/v1/keys/validate

# Install CLI (optional but recommended)
npm install -g socialclaw@0.1.12
socialclaw login --api-key <workspace-key>
```

## Core Workflow

### 1. List connected accounts
```bash
socialclaw accounts list --json
```

If not connected:
```bash
socialclaw accounts connect --provider x --open
socialclaw accounts connect --provider linkedin --open
```

### 2. Upload media (optional)
```bash
socialclaw assets upload --file ./image.png --json
# → { "asset_id": "..." }
```

### 3. Build schedule.json
```json
{
  "posts": [
    {
      "provider": "x",
      "account_id": "<account-id>",
      "text": "Post text here",
      "scheduled_at": "2026-06-01T10:00:00Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

### Optional X/Twitter evidence packet

Before building an X schedule, collect a source packet when the campaign depends on live audience signals rather than the draft alone.

For OpenClaw users who have already approved TweetClaw in their dependency policy, use the pinned package as a separate evidence source:

```bash
openclaw plugins install npm:@xquik/tweetclaw@1.6.31
```

Use it for public tweet search, reply search, follower export, user lookup, media review, monitors, or giveaway evidence. Keep the output as research input for `schedule.json`; SocialClaw remains responsible for validation, scheduling, publishing, and delivery status. Store TweetClaw credentials in its plugin config, not in `SC_API_KEY`, schedule files, or campaign assets. Do not install it as a default ECC or SocialClaw dependency.

### 4. Validate before publishing
```bash
socialclaw validate -f schedule.json --json
```

### 5. Publish
```bash
socialclaw apply -f schedule.json --json