X Content Planner

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

(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:

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

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