Generate a weekly X content plan from a theme, audience

X Content Planner

Produce a weekly X plan built around a pillar discipline and the faster cadence X allows. Unlike LinkedIn, X rewards posting multiple times a day, so the plan mixes single tweets, threads, and reply/quote-tweet targets.

When to use

• User asks "plan my week on X" or "what should I post this week"
• User wants to escape ad-hoc posting and establish a rhythm
• Before a launch week (the plan aligns a product pillar)

Input

• Theme (optional): e.g. "shipping our AI agent in public"
• Audience description: e.g. "indie builders, AI engineers, early founders"
• Pillar mix (optional): defaults to 40% Build-in-Public / 30% Insight / 20% Engagement / 10% Promotion
• Posting cadence (optional): defaults to 2 posts/day on weekdays
• Voice samples (optional): past tweets for voice calibration

Output

A markdown plan with:

7-day calendar

Day	Slot	Type	Pillar	Formula	1-line angle	Goal	Time
Mon	AM	single	Insight	X1 One-Liner Contrarian	"speed is a revenue line item"	reposts	9:30 AM
Mon	PM	reply block	Engagement	R-templates	5 builder threads	replies	2:00 PM
Tue	AM	thread	Build-in-Public	X10 How-I Teardown	"how we cut deploy 40m to 6m"	bookmarks	10:00 AM
Tue	PM	single	Insight	X2 Data-Point	"1.3s page = 2.4x conversion"	bookmarks	1:30 PM
Wed	AM	thread	Insight	X7 Listicle-Thread	"9 landing-page mistakes"	bookmarks	9:30 AM
Thu	AM	single	Build-in-Public	X3 Confession	"the metric we hid for a month"	replies	10:00 AM
Fri	AM	single	Engagement	X6 Relatable	"friday deploy energy"	likes	9:00 AM

(The skill fills real angles from the theme. Weekends are optional and skew to story threads or relatable singles.)

Daily reply and quote-tweet targets

For each day:

• 5-10 accounts to engage (names or archetypes: "peer builders at 2-20k", "AI founders shipping in public", "the creators whose threads you bookmark")
• Template to apply (R1 answer, R2 concede-sharpen, R3 extend, R5 value-add quote)
• Target: 5-10 substantive replies per day. On X, replies on other people's posts drive more profile visits and follows than your own posts early on.

Weekly balance check

• Single-to-thread mix roughly 60/40 (singles for cadence, threads for depth)
• At least 1 build-in-public post (real number from your work)
• At least 1 bookmark-bait post (list, framework, or how-to)
• At least 1 engagement/reply-heavy day
• No pillar over 60% of the week's posts
• No formula repeated more than twice in the week
• Goal mix spread (see below): not every post chases the same signal

Goal mix (balance the week)

Every formula earns a primary signal. A week that is all bookmark-bait or all reply-bait reads as engineered. Spread the goals:

Goal	Formulas	Weekly target
Replies	X3, X9, X1	at least 1
Reposts	X1, X4, X8	at least 1
Likes	X6, X8	at least 1
Bookmarks	X2, X5, X7, X10	at least 2 (bookmarks are the underrated lever)

Rules

• 2-4 posts/day is fine on X. It moves faster than LinkedIn and does not punish frequency the same way. Quality still gates: do not pad to hit a count.
• Single-to-thread mix ~60/40. Singles keep you present daily; threads earn the bookmarks and follows.
• Replies are a content type, not an afterthought. Block reply time daily; early growth on X comes more from replies than from posts.
• Weekday mornings (9-11 AM local) and a 1-3 PM bump are the primary windows; 8-11 PM works for the dev/build crowd.
• Promotion pillar max 1-2 posts/week. Overuse kills trust.
• One formula per slot, varied across the week. Do not stack three X7 threads.

Formula -> pillar mapping

Pillar	Preferred formulas
Build-in-Public	X3 Confession, X10 How-I Teardown, X8 Story Thread
Insight	X1 Contrarian, X2 Data-Point, X7 Listicle-Thread, X9 Curiosity-Gap
Engagement	X6 Relatable, X4 Quote-Tweet, reply templates
Promotion	X10 (results that imply the product), X2 (your own data)

Steps

1. Gather inputs. Ask for theme, audience, pillar preferences if not provided.
2. Validate the pillar mix sums to 100%; warn if any pillar is over 60%.
3. For each day and slot, pick: type (single/thread/reply block), pillar, formula (do not over-repeat), angle, posting time (audience timezone), goal.
4. Add daily reply/quote-tweet targets with a suggested template.
5. Run the weekly balance check and the goal-mix check; flag anything missing.
6. Return as markdown, plus optional JSON for import.

Example

See references/example-week.md for a filled-in 7-day plan.

Files

• SKILL.md - this file
• references/example-week.md - worked 7-day plan
• references/pillars-framework.md - the X pillar discipline explained

Related skills

• x-post-writer - draft each single tweet from the plan
• x-thread-builder - draft each thread from the plan
• x-reply-drafter - execute the daily reply targets
• x-hook-extractor - study competitors' posts while planning