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Claude makes your Instagram graphics

Two skills that turn a topic into branded, ready-to-post carousels and static posts. Install once, set up your brand, and skip the design tools.

Two Claude skills · Your brand, your colors · No design software · Carousels + static posts · Schedule or export

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The walkthrough

Prefer to see it before you install? Watch me set up and run both skills, start to finish.

Walkthrough video coming soon

The full setup-to-first-post recording is being filmed now. The written steps below cover everything in the meantime.

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Get the skills

Download one or both. They share a brand setup, so installing the second is even faster.

Carousel Studio

carousel-studio.skill

Multi-slide branded carousels from a topic, a blog post, or your own copy.

Download Carousel Studio

Static Studio

static-studio.skill

Single-image branded posts in your own named background styles.

Download Static Studio
What you're getting

Two skills, one brand setup

They're a matched pair. Carousel Studio builds multi-slide carousels. Static Studio builds single-image posts. Install one or both. When you have both, they share the same brand setup, so you only answer the questions once.

Static Studio

Single-image posts

One line of text, one finished graphic. Pick from your own named background styles and it drops your words in, sized and centered, every time.

  • Your own named variants (a colored one, a clean white one, whatever you like)
  • Text auto-sizes to fit, never clipped
  • Your handle on every post
  • Keeps a simple log of what you've shipped
How it works

Set up once. Then it's fast.

The first time you run a skill, it gets you ready. Every run after that skips straight to the work.

1

First run: it checks your computer

The skill makes sure your machine can render images and walks you through anything missing with copy-paste steps. No guesswork, no developer knowledge needed.

2

First run: a quick brand interview

A short conversation about your name, handle, colors, fonts, voice, your background styles, and how you like to schedule. It saves all of it. You never answer twice, and if you install both skills, the second one reuses what the first one saved.

3

Every run after: topic in, graphics out

Say what you want. It writes or places the copy, renders the images in your brand, shows them to you, and hands off to your scheduler or just gives you the files. Minutes, not an afternoon.

Your whole setup lives in one file the skill saves for you. Want to change a color, your handle, or your scheduler later? Just tell the skill. It updates only that part.
Before you start

What you need

Not much. The skill helps you with anything technical when you first run it.

The Claude desktop app with Cowork
Python (the skill helps you install it if you don't have it)
Your brand basics colors, fonts, handle
A scheduler optional. Metricool, Buffer, Later, or none
No design software. No coding. If you've never installed Python, the skill detects that on the first run and gives you the exact steps for your computer.
Install

Add a skill in four steps

Same steps for each skill. Check them off as you go.

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First time only: the skill will run its environment check and brand interview. After that, you go straight to making graphics.
Make it yours

Everything is yours to change

Nothing is locked in. Your preferences live in one file the skill reads before every run. Tell it what to change.

Your brand

Colors, fonts, handle, and voice. Change any of them anytime by telling the skill, and it updates only that piece.

Your variants

For static posts, define your own named background styles and reuse them by name. Add more whenever you want.

Your scheduler

Use Metricool, Buffer, Later, or none at all. The skill hands off the way you work, or just gives you the files.

Tips & gotchas

A few things worth knowing

The first run takes a few extra minutes

That's the one-time setup. Let it check your computer and ask its brand questions. Every run after that is quick.

Have your brand colors handy

Hex codes are ideal, but a link to your site or logo works too. The skill can work from what you describe.

Your exact font may need a quick download

If your brand font isn't on your computer, the skill points you to a source or uses a close stand-in and tells you which.

Install both for the smoothest setup

They share one brand file. Set up the first, and the second skips straight to its own small handful of questions.

Questions

FAQ

Do I need to know how to code?
No. The first run checks your computer and walks you through anything missing with copy-paste steps. Python installs once in the background and you never touch it again. If you can use Google Docs, you can run this.
What's the difference between the two skills?
Carousel Studio builds multi-slide carousels from a topic, a blog post, or copy you provide. Static Studio makes single-image posts from one line of text using your own named background styles. Same pipeline, different post types.
Do I have to install both?
No. Each one works on its own. If you do install both, they share one brand setup, so the second skill skips straight to a small handful of its own questions.
Will it match my brand?
Yes. The first-run brand interview saves your colors, fonts, handle, and voice to one file. Every graphic renders from that file, so everything matches from the first post on. Change anything later just by telling the skill.
Can it schedule my posts?
Yes. It can hand finished posts off to Metricool, Buffer, or Later, or skip scheduling entirely and just give you the files to post however you like.
Where do my graphics end up?
Rendered as 1080x1350 PNG files saved to your computer (or your Drive folder, if that's how you set it up), plus handed to your scheduler if you use one. You always have the files.
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A note

I built these for my own brands first. I was tired of opening a design tool every time I needed a carousel or a quick post, so I taught Claude to do it the way I actually work, on brand and in my voice, and then made it something anyone can install and make their own.

That's the whole idea behind SoloOp HQ. You don't need more tools. You need systems built around how your business actually runs. This is one of them.

Delilah, SoloOp HQ