> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.simplified.com/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.simplified.com/_mcp/server.

# What are skills

The [MCP connector](/mcp/overview) gives an assistant the tools. A **skill** teaches it how
to use them: the sequencing, the terminology, and the safety rails that separate a useful
campaign from a pile of API calls.

Twenty-two skills are available in [`celeryhq/simplified-ai`](https://github.com/celeryhq/simplified-ai),
for Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, and compatible agents, in two groups:

#### [Platform operators](/skills/platform-operators)

Fourteen skills that operate one part of Simplified correctly — generation, social, brand,
projects, workflows, image editing, transcription, narration, and rendered video clips.

#### [Marketer workflows](/skills/marketer-workflows)

Eight skills that run a whole marketing job end to end — plan, campaign, repurpose,
test, review.

## How they compose

The workflows chain together, and operators do the work underneath:

```
plan or repurpose content
  → generate reusable assets
  → create channel-native drafts
  → review
  → confirm
  → schedule or queue
  → analyze results
```

For a recording-to-social workflow, `repurpose-video` produces rendered clips,
`content-repurposer` prepares grounded channel copy, and `simplified-social` saves
the requested drafts. Use `transcribe-media` when a standalone transcript or subtitles
are needed; `generate-voiceover` creates separate scripted narration.

## Using one

With the plugin installed, just ask for the outcome:

> Repurpose this blog post into a LinkedIn post, an Instagram carousel and three tweets,
> in our brand voice.

Where the client loads installed skills, the assistant follows `content-repurposer`, reads accessible source and brand context, and prepares the requested drafts. Image generation happens when requested or authorized; a connector alone does not install this repository’s skills.

## The draft-before-publish boundary

Social drafting stays separate from publication. Publishing requires explicit authorization for the content, accounts, timing, and comments; an unchanged approved plan does not need repeated approval. For a draft request, `cross-platform-campaign` prepares the rollout without publishing. For an explicitly authorized unchanged publication plan, it proceeds without asking for the same approval again. That boundary is the reason these are
skills rather than raw tool access.

## Skills and the API

Everything a skill does is available directly through
[the API](/api-reference/get-started/introduction). The skill encodes the sequencing so you
don't have to.