Automate LinkedIn with Claude Cowork

Schedule professional posts, create image carousels, manage company page content, and grow your LinkedIn presence — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide

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Post to LinkedIn in Seconds

Terminal

# Install the skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Find your LinkedIn integration
postiz integrations:list

# Upload carousel images
SLIDE1=$(postiz upload slide1.png | jq -r '.path')
SLIDE2=$(postiz upload slide2.png | jq -r '.path')
SLIDE3=$(postiz upload slide3.png | jq -r '.path')

# Schedule a LinkedIn carousel post
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Excited to share our Q1 results! Swipe through for the highlights." \
  -m "$SLIDE1" -m "$SLIDE2" -m "$SLIDE3" \
  -s "2025-01-15T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"post_as_images_carousel":true,"carousel_name":"Q1 Results"}' \
  -i "your-linkedin-integration-id"

LinkedIn-Specific Features

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Professional Posts

Publish polished text posts with hashtags, mentions, and links. Perfect for thought leadership and industry insights.

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Image Carousels

Turn multiple images into a swipeable carousel post. Great for slide decks, infographics, and visual storytelling.

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Company Pages

Post as your company page using the linkedin-page type. Manage brand content alongside personal profiles.

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Analytics Tracking

Track post performance with Postiz analytics. Monitor impressions, engagement, and reach across your LinkedIn content.

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Media Attachments

Attach images, documents, and videos to your posts. Upload through Postiz for seamless media management.

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Scheduled Posting

Schedule posts with precise timestamps. Plan your LinkedIn content calendar weeks in advance and let Postiz handle publishing.

How It Works

Find Your LinkedIn Integration

List your connected accounts and grab your LinkedIn integration ID. You can also fetch available settings to see what options are supported.

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

# Filter for LinkedIn
postiz integrations:list | jq \
  '.[] | select(.identifier=="linkedin")'

# Get LinkedIn settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <linkedin-id>

Upload Your Media

Upload images for your carousel or single-image posts. Each upload returns a public URL that you can pass to the post creation command.

Upload

# Upload images and extract URLs
SLIDE1=$(postiz upload slide1.png | jq -r '.path')
SLIDE2=$(postiz upload slide2.png | jq -r '.path')

echo $SLIDE1
# https://uploads.postiz.com/slide1.png

echo $SLIDE2
# https://uploads.postiz.com/slide2.png

Create Your Post

Schedule a LinkedIn post with your content, images, and platform-specific settings like carousel mode and carousel naming.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "5 lessons from scaling to 10k users" \
  -m "$SLIDE1" -m "$SLIDE2" \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "post_as_images_carousel": true,
    "carousel_name": "Scaling Lessons"
  }' \
  -i "linkedin-id"

LinkedIn Settings Reference

Every LinkedIn post accepts these platform-specific settings via the --settings flag.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "linkedin" (personal) or "linkedin-page" (company page)
`post_as_images_carousel`	boolean	No	Post multiple images as a carousel. Default: false
`carousel_name`	string	No	Display name for the carousel (shown in LinkedIn UI)

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common LinkedIn posting scenarios.

Simple Text Post (Personal Profile)

settings.json

{
  "__type": "linkedin"
}

Image Carousel with Title

settings.json

{
  "__type": "linkedin",
  "post_as_images_carousel": true,
  "carousel_name": "Weekly Insights"
}

Company Page Post

settings.json

{
  "__type": "linkedin-page"
}

Company Page Carousel

settings.json

{
  "__type": "linkedin-page",
  "post_as_images_carousel": true,
  "carousel_name": "Product Roadmap Q2"
}

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agentic AI tool for knowledge workers. It runs on your desktop, connects to local files and apps like Google Drive, Gmail, and DocuSign, and completes multi-step tasks autonomously.

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Desktop Native

Claude Cowork runs directly on your desktop, connecting to your local files and apps. No browser or cloud setup needed to manage your social media workflow.

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App Integrations

Connects to Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, and more. Pull content from your existing tools and publish it to social media seamlessly.

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Autonomous Tasks

Claude Cowork completes multi-step tasks on its own. Tell it to draft, schedule, and publish posts — it handles the entire workflow.

How Postiz Works with Claude Cowork

Claude Cowork discovers Postiz through MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool integration. Once configured, it can call Postiz commands directly from your desktop — no terminal needed.

✓Install Postiz Agent and set your POSTIZ_API_KEY
✓Claude Cowork discovers Postiz through MCP integration
✓All Postiz commands become available as tools
✓Claude Cowork autonomously chains commands for complex workflows
✓Works seamlessly with your existing desktop apps and files

Install Postiz

# Install the Postiz skill
npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent

# Set your API key
export POSTIZ_API_KEY=your_api_key

# Claude Cowork discovers Postiz
# through MCP tool integration
# and can call all commands directly

LinkedIn Posting with Claude Cowork

Tell Claude Cowork what to post from your desktop — it connects to Postiz, discovers your integrations, and handles the entire publishing workflow without you touching the terminal.

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From Any Chat App

Tell Claude Cowork what to post from you...

Send a message to Claude Cowork from your favorite chat app. It runs as a persistent daemon on your machine, so it picks up your message, discovers your LinkedIn account via Postiz, uploads your images, and schedules the post — all while you go about your day.

Claude Cowork

You: Post to LinkedIn about our new
  feature launch, schedule for tomorrow
  at 9am

Claude Cowork: I'll handle that for you.
  1. Found your LinkedIn integration
  2. Composing your post
  3. Scheduling for tomorrow at 9:00 AM

  Done! Your post is scheduled.
  Post ID: abc-123

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Scheduled & Proactive

Claude Cowork can be asked to perfo...

Claude Cowork supports cron-based heartbeat tasks. Set up a recurring job that checks for new content and posts it to LinkedIn automatically — no manual trigger needed.

Claude Cowork Task

Tell Claude Cowork:

"Every weekday morning, check my
~/content/drafts folder for new posts
and schedule them to LinkedIn
for noon today. Move published drafts
to ~/content/published."

Claude Cowork will autonomously:
  1. Monitor your drafts folder
  2. Read and format each post
  3. Schedule via Postiz
  4. Move files when done

Why Claude Cowork + Postiz for LinkedIn

Claude Cowork makes Postiz a natural fit for your LinkedIn workflow. The agent discovers all available commands and autonomously chains them together.

✓Desktop-native — no terminal or CLI knowledge needed
✓Connects to your local files to pull content for LinkedIn posts
✓Multi-step autonomy — handles discovery, composition, and scheduling
✓Works with Google Drive, Gmail, and other desktop apps
✓Cross-post to LinkedIn + other platforms in a single request
✓Powered by Claude — Anthropic's most capable AI model

SKILL.md (auto-discovered)

---
name: postiz
description: Social media automation
  CLI for scheduling posts across
  30+ platforms including LinkedIn
metadata:
  claude-cowork:
    requirements:
      env:
        - POSTIZ_API_KEY
      binaries:
        - postiz
---

# Available Commands
- postiz integrations:list
- postiz integrations:settings <id>
- postiz posts:create
- postiz upload <file>
- postiz analytics:platform <id>

# LinkedIn Settings
__type, post_as_images_carousel,
carousel_name

Also Works with OpenClaw

Postiz Agent works as a CLI tool with any AI agent that can execute shell commands — including OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI agent.

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OpenClaw

Open-source AI agent

Claude reads the SKILL.md file to learn all available Postiz commands, then autonomously discovers your LinkedIn integration, uploads your images, creates a carousel if needed, and schedules the post.

OpenClaw

> Create a LinkedIn carousel from my
  slide deck images, schedule for
  tomorrow morning

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz upload ./slide1.png
  postiz upload ./slide2.png
  postiz upload ./slide3.png
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Key takeaways from Q1..." \
    -m "slide1-url" -m "slide2-url" \
    -m "slide3-url" \
    -s "2025-03-02T09:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{"post_as_images_carousel":
      true,"carousel_name":
      "Q1 Takeaways"}' \
    -i "linkedin-id"

LinkedIn + Other Platforms

Schedule the same content to LinkedIn and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Post to LinkedIn and X simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Excited to announce our new feature! Check it out." \
  -s "2025-03-01T09:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{}' \
  -i "linkedin-id,x-id"

# Batch schedule a week of LinkedIn content
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Day $day insight! #leadership #growth" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T08:00:00Z" \
    --settings '{}' \
    -i "linkedin-id"
done