A skill that makes Claude design a social media template system the way a senior designer would, one stage at a time, with you deciding at each step. It audits your current posts and counts what is broken, chooses the canvas sizes you actually need, and sets a live area on each one that keeps words clear of every platform's buttons and crops. Then it groups your post types into three to five layout families, counts the templates that makes, writes the type, colour and logo rules in pixels, and gives you build steps for Canva or Figma with your own numbers filled in.
Inside are five reference files. One holds current frame sizes and safe zones for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and TikTok, each with its source and the date it was checked. The others hold a library of nine layout families with grids, a type scale and a contrast method based on WCAG 2.2, a build guide to what each Canva and Figma plan allows, and a complete worked example for an invented paint brand. It never invents quotes, figures or prices, never puts sample content in a placeholder, and treats your own brand guidelines as the first rule.
It cannot open Canva or Figma unless a connector is switched on, and it does not take or generate photographs, so the build is yours or your designer's. Platform sizes and tool plans change, so trust your app's preview when it disagrees with the file. Turn on code execution and it will check contrast, measure your longest headline against each slot, draw every template as a wireframe and mock your next nine posts as a grid. Bring screenshots of your last few weeks of posts, because the audit is where the system gets its shape.
Claude skill · version 1.0
Social template system
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In the download · 7 files
- SKILL.mdThe method Claude follows, in six stages from the audit of your current posts to the tested, handed-over template set.
- README.mdHow to install it in claude.ai or Claude Code, how to start, and the licence.
- references/worked-example.mdA complete template system for an invented paint brand, from the post count to the usage guide.
- references/platform-formats.mdFrame sizes, safe zones and live areas for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and TikTok, with sources and the date checked.
- references/layout-families.mdNine layout families, the grid for each frame, how to choose families, count templates and draw wireframes.
- references/type-and-color.mdThe type scale in pixels, how to measure what fits, colour roles, the WCAG 2.2 contrast check and logo rules.
Install it and begin
01Install it in Claude CodeTerminal mkdir -p ~/.claude/skillsunzip ~/Downloads/social-template-system.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/# Start it with /social-template-system. If this is your first skill, type /reload-skills once.On claude.ai there is nothing to unzip: upload the zip as it is. Every step is on Install and use a Claude skill.
02Your first message to ClaudeText Use the social template system skill. We are [BRAND NAME] and we post on [PLATFORMS AND HOW OFTEN]. The templates will be filled by [WHO MAKES THE POSTS] in [CANVA OR FIGMA, AND YOUR PLAN]. Our guidelines and recent posts are attached. Start with the audit.Attach your brand guidelines and screenshots of the last eight to twelve weeks of posts. If you know who holds your font licence, say so, because it decides how the fonts get into the tool.
Try this
Build one family before the whole system
Run the skill to the end of Stage 3, then build only your most-used family in one frame. Fill it with your longest headline from the last three months and your worst real photo, export it, and look at it on your phone at arm's length before you build the rest.
Time: About two hours. You need: Screenshots of your last eight to twelve weeks of posts, your brand guidelines, logo files and colour codes, Canva or Figma, and the name of your plan.
Look for
- A count of your post types, with shares, before any layout is proposed.
- Frame sizes and safe zones quoted with the date they were checked.
- No more than five families, with every frequent post type given a home.
- Character limits on every text slot, written into the placeholder itself.
- A contrast verdict for every text and background pair, including the ones that fail.
- Your longest real headline fitting without the type being shrunk.
What to do it with
- ClaudeFree tier, paid above it
A language model that writes, edits, reads long documents and runs tools, including agents that work inside a codebase.
Bad at It is agreeable by default, so it will improve a bad idea instead of telling you it is bad. Ask it to argue against you and the quality of the answer changes.
- Claude CodeSubscription
An agent that reads a whole repository, edits files, runs the tests and explains what it changed.
Bad at It is fast enough to make a large mistake quickly. Work on a branch, read the diff, and never let it push. Watch the starting mode: on Pro, Max and Team plans it opens in auto mode, which Anthropic's own list says may read a .env file and send the key in it to the API that key belongs to. Switch it off.
- CanvaFree tier, paid above it
Templates, brand kits and generation in one place, built so a non-designer can produce something acceptable.
Bad at Acceptable is the ceiling as well as the floor. Its templates are so widely used that a trained eye dates a deck in a second.
- Canva Brand KitsFree tier, paid above it
Locks fonts, colours and logos so everybody making a post uses the right ones.
Bad at It enforces assets, not judgement. A team can stay perfectly on-palette and still produce work that is off-brand.
- FigmaFree tier, paid above it
The shared file where interface design happens: components, variables, prototypes and the handoff to code.
Bad at Its generative features make plausible screens rather than considered ones, and a plausible screen is the hardest kind to argue with in a review.
- Figma BuzzFree tier, paid above it
Templates for social posts and event assets that a marketing team fills in, with locked layers, and a spreadsheet that can make one asset per row.
Bad at Still in open beta. A template is only as tight as its locks, and a bulk run turns every bad spreadsheet cell into a bad asset without warning anyone.
Tells you whether two colours are legible together, against the published standard.
Bad at The ratio is a floor and not a design. Passing text can still be unpleasant to read.
Why it matters
Ask a chat for social templates and you get a dozen pretty one-offs at random sizes, with text sitting under the Stories reply bar and colours that fail contrast on a phone. A template system is a few decisions repeated: frames, live areas, families, a type scale and character limits. This skill makes Claude take those decisions in order, check them with numbers, and test them against your real headlines before anyone builds.
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