content-to-carousellisted

Turn any piece of content into a polished, on-brand Instagram carousel (1080x1350 slides + caption + hashtags + alt text), rendered locally with the carousel engine. Inputs can be a YouTube video URL, a news article or blog URL, or pasted text/a link. Use this whenever the user wants to make an Instagram carousel, repurpose a video or article into slides, create a "swipe" post, turn a link or transcript into slides, or produce social slides from content, even if they just paste a URL and say "make a carousel" or "turn this into slides". It self-onboards a new brand if no brand pack exists, adapts to a reference carousel style the user provides, and uses AI illustration only where a slide is conceptual and has no real asset. Always prefer this skill over hand-rolling slide images.
lfsadigital/content-to-carousel · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 73

Install: claude install-skill lfsadigital/content-to-carousel

# Content to Carousel Turn a video, article, or text into an on-brand Instagram carousel, with the human approving twice before anything ships. You are the brain (decide the story, copy, layout, and which visual each slide needs); the **engine** is the hands (renders HTML to 1080x1350 PNGs). Compose, do not duplicate: reuse the bundled **engine** (and the optional **`copywriting`** skill if installed). ## The engine (reuse, never recreate) The engine is bundled inside this skill at **`engine/`** (relative to this skill's own directory). When the skill runs you are told its base directory, so resolve `<skill-dir>/engine/` and use it for every engine file: `engine/engine.css` (structure + component classes, tokens as CSS vars), `engine/brands/<brand>.css` (brand tokens), `engine/render.sh <dir>` (renders every `slideN.html` in `<dir>` to `out/`), `engine/templates/`, `engine/fonts/` (Poppins), `engine/kie.py` (optional AI illustration client). Slide HTML must link the engine CSS by its ABSOLUTE path on this machine (compute it from the skill base dir) so a slide renders from any folder. Never invent a new engine. Full design system + class list: read `reference/design-rules.md`. ## Pipeline (one carousel) ``` Gate 0 onboard -> ingest -> beats (GATE 1) -> build (smart-hybrid visuals) -> render -> QC critic -> caption -> present (GATE 2) -> offer upgrades -> export -> publish ``` Work in a per-content folder `carousels/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>/` (`source.json`, `slideN.html`,