Designs a sustainable publishing system for a solo creator – 3-4 content pillars, a cadence set at the creator's consistent floor, a fixed pillar rotation, a 30-day idea bank, and a monthly audit loop – delivered as a weekly calendar skeleton.
Designs a sustainable publishing system for a solo creator - 3-4 content pillars, a cadence set at the creator's consistent floor, a fixed pillar rotation, a 30-day idea bank, and a monthly audit loop - delivered as a weekly calendar skeleton. Use when someone says "help me plan my content", "I keep falling off my posting schedule", "I'm launching a channel, what should my cadence be", or "audit my stalled content strategy". Do NOT use for a brand or social team's multi-platform posting grid with per-channel cadences and campaign dates - use social-content-calendar instead; do NOT use to fan one finished pillar piece into derivatives - use content-repurposing instead; do NOT use to write the individual posts or scripts - use youtube-script-writer or linkedin-post-writer instead.This is the skill's description: the text your AI reads to decide when the skill applies.
creator-content-calendar/SKILL.md
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name: Creator Content Calendar
description: Designs a sustainable publishing system for a solo creator - 3-4 content pillars, a cadence set at the creator's consistent floor, a fixed pillar rotation, a 30-day idea bank, and a monthly audit loop - delivered as a weekly calendar skeleton. Use when someone says "help me plan my content", "I keep falling off my posting schedule", "I'm launching a channel, what should my cadence be", or "audit my stalled content strategy". Do NOT use for a brand or social team's multi-platform posting grid with per-channel cadences and campaign dates - use social-content-calendar instead; do NOT use to fan one finished pillar piece into derivatives - use content-repurposing instead; do NOT use to write the individual posts or scripts - use youtube-script-writer or linkedin-post-writer instead.
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# Creator Content Calendar
A content calendar is a sustainability tool, not an idea list. Its job is to prevent decision fatigue, guarantee pillar balance, and make consistency achievable at the creator's real energy level - because the channel-killer is not bad content, it is the boom-bust cycle where an ambitious schedule collapses after three weeks and the creator disappears for two months. This skill produces a calendar structure the creator can hold through their worst week.
## Operating procedure
Run in order: cadence decisions made before pillars exist produce a schedule with nothing to fill it, and idea banks built before pillars produce ideas with no home.
### Step 1: gather inputs
1. Real weekly hours available for content, on a bad week - not an inspired one. This is the binding constraint.
2. Fixed constraints: job, family, travel rhythm, energy patterns (batch filmer vs. daily writer).
3. Primary channel and format (the calendar is single-creator; multi-channel derivatives come from repurposing, not extra slots).
4. Current output history: what they actually shipped in the last 8 weeks, not what they intended. Label any estimate a guess.
5. Goal per pillar if known (growth, trust, sales); default to growth.
### Step 2: define three to four content pillars
A pillar is not a topic; it is a content type with a predictable format and audience expectation. The standard four: **Tutorial** (how-to, educational), **Story** (experience, case study), **Opinion** (take, commentary), **Showcase** (product, result, before/after). Every piece of content must map to exactly one pillar. Hard rule: more than four pillars means no pillars - collapse until at most four remain.
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