Automate Twitch with Claude Cowork

Send chat messages, broadcast colored announcements, schedule stream notifications, and engage your community — all from the command line or through your AI agent.

Setup Guide

Please make sure there is always a human in the loop.

Post to Twitch 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 Twitch integration
postiz integrations:list

# Send a chat message
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Stream starting now!" \
  --settings '{"messageType":"announcement","announcementColor":"purple"}' \
  -i "your-twitch-integration-id"

Twitch-Specific Features

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Chat Messages

Send messages directly to your Twitch chat. Keep your community engaged with automated updates, links, and announcements.

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Announcements

Broadcast highlighted announcements that stand out in chat. Perfect for stream starts, events, and important updates.

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Colored Announcements

Choose from primary, blue, green, orange, or purple colors for your announcements. Match your brand or highlight different content types.

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Stream Notifications

Schedule pre-stream hype messages and go-live notifications. Let your audience know when you're about to start streaming.

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Scheduled Posting

Queue up chat messages and announcements for specific times. Perfect for timed promotions during streams or pre-stream countdowns.

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AI-Powered Chat

Let AI agents compose and send context-aware chat messages. Automate community engagement while maintaining your voice.

How It Works

Find Your Twitch Integration

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

Discovery

# List all integrations
postiz integrations:list

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

# Get Twitch settings schema
postiz integrations:settings <twitch-id>

Choose Your Message Type

Decide whether to send a regular chat message or a highlighted announcement. Announcements support color customization for extra visibility.

Message Types

# Regular chat message (default)
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Thanks for watching!" \
  -i "twitch-id"

# Colored announcement
postiz posts:create \
  -c "GIVEAWAY starting now!" \
  --settings '{
    "messageType": "announcement",
    "announcementColor": "green"
  }' \
  -i "twitch-id"

Create Your Post

Send a chat message or announcement to your Twitch channel. Schedule it for a specific time or post immediately.

Post Creation

postiz posts:create \
  -c "Stream starting now! Let's go!" \
  -s "2025-01-15T18:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{
    "messageType": "announcement",
    "announcementColor": "purple"
  }' \
  -i "twitch-id"

Twitch Settings Reference

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

Field	Type	Required	Description
`__type`	string	Yes	Must be "twitch"
`messageType`	string	No	"message" or "announcement" (default: message)
`announcementColor`	string	No	"primary", "blue", "green", "orange", or "purple" (only for announcements)

Common Configurations

Copy-paste these settings for common Twitch posting scenarios.

Simple Chat Message

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "message"
}

Purple Announcement

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "announcement",
  "announcementColor": "purple"
}

Green Giveaway Announcement

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "announcement",
  "announcementColor": "green"
}

Blue Event Announcement

settings.json

{
  "messageType": "announcement",
  "announcementColor": "blue"
}

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

Schedule recurring tasks with cron jobs. Claude Cowork can post your Twitch announcements on a schedule without you having to ask each time.

How Postiz Works with Claude Cowork

When you install Postiz Agent globally, Claude Cowork automatically discovers it by reading the bundled SKILL.md file. This file tells Claude Cowork what commands are available, what environment variables are needed, and how to compose Twitch messages with the right settings.

✓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

Twitch 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 Twitch channel via Postiz, and sends the announcement — all while you go about your day.

Claude Cowork

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

Claude Cowork: I'll handle that for you.
  1. Found your Twitch 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 sends pre-stream announcements and chat messages 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 Twitch
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 Twitch

Claude Cowork makes Postiz a natural fit for your Twitch 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 Twitch posts
✓Multi-step autonomy — handles discovery, composition, and scheduling
✓Works with Google Drive, Gmail, and other desktop apps
✓Cross-post to Twitch + 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 Twitch
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>

# Twitch Settings
messageType, announcementColor

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 Twitch integration, picks the right message type and color, and sends the message.

OpenClaw

> Send a purple announcement to Twitch:
  "Stream starting now! Let's build!"

Claude will automatically run:
  postiz integrations:list
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Stream starting now!" \
    --settings '{"messageType":
      "announcement",
      "announcementColor":
      "purple"}' \
    -i "twitch-id"

Twitch + Other Platforms

Announce your stream on Twitch and other platforms in a single command. Each platform gets its own settings.

Terminal

# Announce stream on Twitch and Twitter simultaneously
postiz posts:create \
  -c "Going live now! Building a real-time dashboard" \
  -s "2025-01-15T18:00:00Z" \
  --settings '{"messageType":"announcement","announcementColor":"purple"}' \
  -i "twitch-id,twitter-id"

# Schedule a week of stream announcements
for day in 1 2 3 4 5; do
  postiz posts:create \
    -c "Stream day $day! Join us at 6pm" \
    -s "2025-03-0${day}T17:30:00Z" \
    --settings '{"messageType":"announcement","announcementColor":"green"}' \
    -i "twitch-id"
done