# content-calendar

Builds a repeatable content calendar: which pillars and formats go out on which days. Useful when posts need a cycle, not a one-off plan.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 786 installs · ★ 199
- Author: social-media-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/content-calendar/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/content-calendar

## What it does

This skill builds an operating rhythm, not a grid you fill by hand. It reads `social-strategy.md`, `content-pillars.md` and `brand-profile.md` first, so the calendar maps to themes instead of floating free. No pillars yet? It routes you to `content-pillars` or derives provisional ones.

Then it sizes cadence to real capacity: time, people, budget, the bad-week floor. Cadence is set per platform, not one number everywhere. What comes out is a skeleton of buckets (pillar x format x slot), one or two named series like "Teardown Tuesday", and room for reactive content. How much room? The skill suggests reserving roughly 20-30% for timely posts and keeping one or two open slots a week.

Overcommitting is the number-one reason calendars get abandoned, so the skill cuts cadence down to a sustainable floor and explains why. It also sets the planning rhythm: a ritual, batch creation, and a buffer queue so a bad week does not break the streak. The output covers cadence, skeleton, series, the planned/reactive split, date anchors and a filled sample week. From there it hands briefs to `batch-content-plan`, writing to the content skills, and scheduling to `scheduling-and-queue`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill content-calendar -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/content-calendar/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/content-calendar/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill content-calendar -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/content-calendar/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill content-calendar -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/content-calendar/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install social-media-skills/skills content-calendar
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/content-calendar/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill content-calendar -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills --path skills/content-calendar
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/content-calendar/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill content-calendar -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/content-calendar/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- set a repeatable posting rhythm instead of a one-week plan
- match posting cadence to what the team can actually hold
- map pillars and formats to specific days and platforms
- keep open slots for trends and timely topics
- define a planning ritual, batching and a buffer queue

## Example prompts
- Build me a content calendar: which pillars and formats post on which days
- Set up a repeatable posting cadence for a two-person team
- I want a sustainable posting routine with room for trends, not a single month's plan

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: content-calendar
description: >-
  Use to build a content calendar — a sustainable, repeatable posting rhythm and recurring
  structure (which pillars/formats post on which days, on which platforms), derived from strategy
  and pillars. Run when the user says "content calendar," "editorial calendar," "social media
  calendar," "posting schedule," "content plan" (ongoing), "what should I post each week," "build
  me a posting routine/cadence," or wants a repeatable system rather than one period's posts. Reads
  social-strategy, content-pillars, and brand-profile first; sizes cadence to real capacity; builds
  a recurring skeleton of buckets and named series with room reserved for reactive/trend content;
  sets the planning rhythm (batch, buffer, review). Hands a period's briefs to batch-content-plan,
  content to the writing skills, and scheduling to scheduling-and-queue. For filling one specific
  week/month with actual posts use batch-content-plan; for higher-level channel/goal choices use
  social-strategy.
metadata:
  version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
---

# Content Calendar

A content calendar isn't a blank grid you fill by heroics — it's a **sustainable operating rhythm**:
a recurring structure that generates posts so you're never staring at an empty page, at a cadence
you can actually hold. Two ideas drive everything here:

1. **Cadence equals capacity.** The number-one reason calendars fail is overcommitting. A
   sustainable floor you keep for a year beats an ambitious plan abandoned in February.
2. **A recurring skeleton beats a blank page.** Define repeatable *buckets* (pillar × format × slot)
   and a couple of named series — then each cycle is fill-in-the-blanks, not invent-from-scratch.

**This skill owns the recurring system.** Filling a specific week/month with actual posts is
`batch-content-plan`; the higher-level channel/goal choices are `social-strategy`. This sits
between them: strategy + pillars → the repeatable rhythm → (per cycle) batch-content-plan →
content skills → scheduler.

## Step 0 — Read the foundation first

Load `social-strategy.md`, `content-pillars.md`, and `brand-profile.md`. If pillars don't exist,
route to `content-pillars` or derive lightweight provisional ones — the calendar must map to themes,
not float free.

## Step 1 — Size the cadence to real capacity

Estimate honest capacity (time, people, budget, the bad-week floor) and set a **sustainable cadence
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