The carousel-writer skill: the words for every slide, in order
TL;DR
carousel-writer gives you the exact text for every slide, a one-line note on what goes on each slide visually, and a copy-ready prompt for building the whole thing as a web page. Clone the repo, copy one folder, type /carousel-writer. It writes the words, not the images.
Carousels get saved and shared more than anything else you post, and most of them are ruined on slide one. Someone puts a paragraph in the first frame, nobody reads it, and the nine good slides behind it never get seen.
carousel-writer treats slide 1 as its own job: under 10 words, a claim rather than a topic, big enough to read at arm's length. Then it writes the middle slides one idea at a time with a hard cap of 20 words each, puts something concrete in the middle so the whole thing is believable, and ends on one ask.
One thing to be clear about up front: it writes words and describes slides. It does not make the pictures. It hands you a Canva route and a copy-ready prompt for building the slides as a page you screenshot.
Writes slide 1 as its own hook, then every slide after it with a visual note. Free, one folder in our public repo.
Install the carousel-writer skill
Grab the repo and copy the folder into your Claude Code skills directory.
bashgit clone https://github.com/duncan-buildroom/freeskills.git
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r freeskills/carousel-writer ~/.claude/skills/Restart Claude Code or open a new session and the skill is live. That's the entire install. No API keys, no config.
Run it the first time
Type /carousel-writer. It asks for the one idea in a sentence, and then what someone should be able to DO after swiping through. If your answer to the second one is know more about me, it stops and pushes back, because that's a bio and not a carousel. Then it names the carousel type it picked and gets to work.
You get three versions of slide 1, the strongest one chosen with a one-line reason, then every middle slide with a headline, an optional support line, and a visual note. It saves the lot to ~/carousels/ with the caption to post alongside it and both build routes. A good first result: read only the headlines top to bottom and the story still lands.
Turn what you built into a walkthrough carousel
Start with the build you finished most recently. The steps are already in your head, which is exactly what this shape needs.
/carousel-writer
The one idea: [one sentence]. After swiping through, someone should be able to [the thing they can do]. I built [the thing] and the steps were roughly [step, step, step, in your own words]. The concrete proof I have is [a number you measured / a screenshot of the thing / a real before and after].Write the mistakes carousel from what you got wrong
Mistake carousels save well because people recognize themselves in them. List the wrong turns plainly and let the skill cut it to the strongest ones.
/carousel-writer
Carousel about the mistakes I made [doing the thing]. Here they are, unsorted: [mistake one], [mistake two], [mistake three], [any more]. What I'd do instead now: [the fixes]. Pick the strongest ones and cut the rest. Platform is [Instagram / LinkedIn].Get the slides built without opening Canva
The output file ends with a prompt you paste into a fresh Claude Code session to build the slides as one HTML page you flip through and screenshot. Run it like this.
Build the carousel from this file: ~/carousels/[the file it saved].
Make it one self-contained index.html, [number] slides at 1080x1350 each, so I can screenshot them one at a time. Use my accent color [hex code] plus neutrals. Same layout on every slide, left and right arrow keys to move between them.The 60-second version
What this skill does, in about 60 seconds, in case you'd rather say it out loud.
- 1Hook: there's a brand new free Claude skill that takes you from I have no idea what goes on each slide, to the exact words for every slide plus a prompt that builds them for you.
- 2Mechanism: you hand it your one idea and what someone should be able to do after swiping through it. It picks the carousel type, writes three versions of slide 1 at under ten words each, then writes every middle slide with a headline, an optional support line, and a note on what goes on the frame. You get seven to ten slides, one ask on the last one, and a prompt you can paste into Claude to build the whole thing.
- 3Transformation: you post the carousel you've been putting off for a month, and it's the kind people save instead of scroll past.
- 4Close: the slides are free, one of 55 skills. If you want the slides designed for you and the path they lead to, Claude Code Club is 9 dollars a month. Link below.
Tonight: install it, run it on something you built this month, then build slide 1 and look at it on your phone before you make the other eight.
Common questions
Does this make the images?
No. It writes the text for every slide and a one-line note on what goes on each one visually. Then it hands you two ways to build them: a Canva route, and a copy-ready prompt that has Claude build the slides as a page you screenshot.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Three terminal lines to copy the folder, then you answer questions in plain words. Even the build prompt is copy and paste.
Is it really free?
Yes. One folder in a public repo, no API keys, no account, nothing to pay on top of Claude Code.
What if I have way more than 10 points?
Then you have two carousels. The skill makes you pick the stronger seven and keeps the rest for later. Over 10 slides loses people, under 7 feels thin.
What if my idea needs full sentences?
Some do. If the idea can't survive being cut to 8 words a slide, the skill tells you to use thread-writer instead rather than jamming it into frames.
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