# Bolta Accounts And Buckets

> Inspect connected social accounts and manage social buckets — named groups of accounts for one-shot multi-account publishing. Use this skill when the user asks "what's connected", "which accounts do I have", "show my social accounts", "create a bucket", "make a Launch Team bucket with my LinkedIn and X", "add my Instagram to the launch bucket", "rename that bucket", or says "post to my <bucket> bucket" and you need to resolve the bucket's member accounts. Connecting a new account happens in the user's browser — hand them a link via get-connect-link. Not for drafting content (use bolta-draft-post) or analytics (use bolta-analytics-report).

- Skill: `boltaai/bolta-accounts-and-buckets` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add boltaai/bolta-accounts-and-buckets`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/boltaai/bolta-accounts-and-buckets/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Data & Analytics
- Author: boltaai (https://skillmd.com/u/boltaai)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/boltaai/bolta-accounts-and-buckets

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# Bolta Accounts & Buckets

Answer "what's connected" and turn natural phrases like "create a bucket called Launch
Team with my LinkedIn and X" into the right tool calls. A **bucket** is a named group of
connected accounts — publishing to a bucket hits every member at once, so buckets are how
users say "post this to the launch crew" without listing UUIDs. The connected-accounts
card these tools render has **Socials** and **Buckets** tabs — accounts on one, buckets
(with their members) on the other.

## When to use
Any question about which social accounts are connected, plus creating, renaming, or
re-membering buckets — or resolving a bucket name into account ids for another skill.

## Tools this skill uses
| Tool | Why |
|-|-|
| `list-workspaces` | Resolve `workspace_id` if unknown. |
| `list-accounts` | Connected accounts + their UUIDs — the ONLY source of `account_ids`. Optional `platform` filter. Renders the accounts card (Socials tab). |
| `list-buckets` | The workspace's buckets with member accounts (id, platform, username). Renders the accounts card (Buckets tab). |
| `get-connect-link` | URL to Bolta's connect page for when nothing (or the wrong platform) is connected. Optional `platform` preselects it on the page. |
| `create-social-bucket` | Create a bucket: `name` (unique per workspace) + `account_ids`. |
| `update-social-bucket` | Rename a bucket and/or replace its members (`account_ids` is a FULL replacement list). |
| `get-my-capabilities` | Diagnose permission errors on bucket writes (needs accounts:write). |

## Prerequisites
- `workspace_id` — resolve once via `list-workspaces`, reuse for every call. Auth is automatic
  via the Bolta connector's OAuth grant — never ask for an API key.
- Reads need any role; creating/updating buckets needs **accounts:write** — granted to
  owner, admin, and creator. Viewers are read-only. (Elsewhere, default new content to
  Draft; confirm before publish/delete.)

## Workflow

### 1. Resolve the workspace
Call `list-workspaces` and use the active workspace's `id`. Never guess a UUID.

### 2. "What's connected?"
Call `list-accounts(workspace_id)` (add `platform` if the user named one) and, in parallel,
`list-buckets(workspace_id)`. Present both halves the way the card does — Socials: each
account's platform + username + status; Buckets: each bucket's name and members. If nothing
is connected (or the platform the user wants is missing), call
`get-connect-link(workspace_id)` — pass `platform` if the user named one — and share the
URL. OAuth can't complete in chat, so the user finishes the connection in their browser;
afterwards re-check with `list-accounts`.

### 3. Create a bucket
"Create a bucket called Launch Team with my LinkedIn and X":
1. `list-accounts(workspace_id)` → match the named platforms/usernames to accounts and take
   their **base account UUIDs** (never virtual `linkedin_org_` / `facebook_page_` ids).
   If a platform matches several accounts, ask which one.
2. Confirm the resolved members with the user ("Launch Team = LinkedIn @acme + X @acme — 
   create it?").
3. `create-social-bucket(workspace_id, name="Launch Team", account_ids=[…])`.
4. Verify: re-read with `list-buckets(workspace_id)` and confirm the new bucket and its
   members are what the user asked for before reporting success.
Bucket names are unique per workspace — an exact duplicate 409s (see failures).

### 4. Update a bucket
"Add my Instagram to the Launch Team bucket" / "rename it":
1. `list-buckets(workspace_id)` → find the bucket, note its `bucket_id` AND current members.
2. Build the new membership: current member ids ± the change (ids from `list-accounts`).
   `account_ids` is a **full replacement** — sending only the new account would drop the rest.
3. `update-social-bucket(workspace_id, bucket_id, account_ids=[…full new list…])`; pass
   `name` for renames. Repeating the same update is safe (idempotent).
4. Verify: re-read with `list-buckets(workspace_id)` and confirm the final name/membership
   before reporting success.

Note: there is **no delete-bucket tool** on this surface. If the user asks to delete a
bucket, say so and point them to the Bolta app; you can offer to empty or rename it via
`update-social-bucket` instead.

### 5. "Post to my <bucket> bucket"
This skill resolves; drafting skills act. Call `list-buckets`, find the bucket by name, and
hand its member `account_ids` to **bolta-draft-post** / `create-post` (or use the bucket with
`voice-generate`'s `selectedAccountsOrBuckets`). If the named bucket doesn't exist, show the
buckets that do and offer to create it.

## Failure handling
- Bucket name already exists (409 on create) → show the existing bucket and offer to update
  it instead of creating a duplicate.
- Permission error on create/update → run `get-my-capabilities`, report the missing
  accounts:write role plainly, don't retry.
- Named account not found → show `list-accounts` output and ask; never guess an id, and never
  pass virtual `linkedin_org_` / `facebook_page_` ids as bucket members.
- Empty bucket request (no resolvable accounts) → create with `name` only is allowed, but
  confirm the user really wants an empty bucket.

## Example
User: "What's connected? And make a bucket called Launch Team with LinkedIn and X."
1. `list-workspaces` → workspace_id.
2. `list-accounts(workspace_id)` + `list-buckets(workspace_id)` → LinkedIn @acme,
   X @acme, IG @acme.shop; no buckets yet.
3. "3 accounts connected (LinkedIn, X, Instagram), no buckets. Create Launch Team =
   LinkedIn @acme + X @acme?" → yes.
4. `create-social-bucket(workspace_id, name="Launch Team", account_ids=[li_id, x_id])`.
5. "Launch Team created with 2 members — say 'post to my Launch Team bucket' any time to
   hit both at once."