listicle-blog-post-writerlisted

# Listicle Blog Post Writer Write research-driven, SEO-optimized listicle blog posts. Takes a topic, a list of items, and a target keyword, then produces a publish-ready article with per-item cards, honest editorial judgment, and the citable structures AI answer engines actually lift. This skill is publishing-platform agnostic. It produces the article. How you publish it (static site, CMS, headless, paste into an editor) is yours to handle. ## Intake Ask for whatever is missing before writing: 1. **Topic and working title** (required) 2. **Target keyword** (required). If not supplied, propose 3 options and explain the intent behind each. 3. **The list items** (required). If the user has not fixed the list, research candidates and propose one. 4. **Which items the user has personally used** (important, see the firsthand boundary below) 5. **Audience** and what their next step should be 6. **Word count or item count**, if they have a preference Do NOT start writing until the target keyword and the list are settled. Everything downstream depends on both. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Research each list item For every item, gather from primary sources (the item's own site and docs, not third-party summaries): - What it actually is, in one sentence - Pricing, with the **billing basis stated explicitly**. Most vendor pricing pages default to the ANNUAL toggle and print the annual rate with a "/month" suffix, so the headline number is frequently not the monthly price. The sub-li