Over the past month, my X feed has been flooded with Claude Skills. I couldn’t resist — I bookmarked a bunch of them, and today I finally put them to use.

1. Overview

I used to manually curate and publish all my content. The typical workflow looked like this:

1. Import a YouTube link or audio file into NotebookLLM to extract the text, or directly copy text content from other blogs.

2. Paste the text into the Gemini web chat and use a prompt to shape it into a polished article.

3. Copy the article into a Markdown-to-WeChat converter web tool to handle formatting.

4. Extract or generate the cover image: use a tool to grab the YouTube thumbnail, or have Gemini generate a text-to-image prompt for the cover.

5. Use Gemini to generate text-to-image prompts for inline illustrations.

6. Use Nanobanana Pro to generate and save the cover and illustrations.

7. Upload the cover and illustrations to the WeChat Official Account editor, and insert them at the right positions.

Even at my fastest, this whole process took at least 20 minutes — image generation alone eats up a good chunk of time. And I had already published over 100 articles this way. Looking back, I really should have automated this sooner.

I had tried using N8N before, but couldn’t get it working (polishing the workflow was too time-consuming).

Now someone has built ready-made Claude Skills that can handle all of the above with just a few commands.

Skills repository: https://github.com/JimLiu/baoyu-skills

2. How to Use

2.1 Install the Skills

Make sure you have Claude Code installed first, then run the following command:

npx add-skill jimliu/baoyu-skills

Inside Claude Code, run:

/plugin marketplace add jimliu/baoyu-skills

/plugin install content-skills@baoyu-skills

2.2 Set Up the Directory

The directory structure looks roughly like this:

wechat-content-pipeline/
├── .env                  # Stores your Official Account AppID and Secret (critical)
├── CLAUDE.md             # Project instructions for Claude (helps it understand your publishing standards)
├── drafts/               # Stores Markdown drafts to be processed
├── published/            # Stores archived published articles
└── assets/               # Stores generated covers and illustrations

.env file contents:

# WeChat Official Account credentials
WECHAT_APP_ID=your_AppID
WECHAT_APP_SECRET=your_AppSecret

# If you need image hosting (e.g., Alibaba Cloud OSS / AWS S3), add it here
OSS_ACCESS_KEY=...

CLAUDE.md file contents:

# Project Guide
This is a batch processing workflow for WeChat Official Account articles.

## Commands
- build: Use /baoyu-cover-image to generate covers for articles in the drafts/ directory
- publish: Use /post-to-wechat to publish articles to the WeChat drafts box

## Style Guidelines
- Cover images: Must be 16:9 aspect ratio, styled as "minimalist, tech-inspired."
- Layout: Before publishing, verify that Markdown H2 headings are bold.

## Workflow
1. Read .md files from drafts/.
2. Check if a cover image exists; if not, generate one.
3. After publishing, move the file to the published/ directory.

2.3 Key Steps

Generate the initial article:

You are a WeChat Official Account expert. Read https://www.xxx.com/xxx and generate an article of approximately 3,500 words. Output it directly to the @drafts directory.

Once complete, you’ll find an xxx.md file in the drafts directory.

Generate the cover:

build

This generates a cover.png in the xxx.md directory. Under the hood, the skill analyzes the article to create a text-to-image prompt, calls Gemini Web to generate the image, and saves it locally.

Generate illustrations:

illustrate drafts/xxx.md

This generates several inline images in the xxx.md directory, using the same approach as the cover.

Publish to WeChat Official Account drafts:

publish

Claude Code converts the Markdown into WeChat Official Account format and pastes it into a new article.

The article contains placeholders for illustrations. Claude Code inserts the images at the designated positions and saves the draft.

Customizing the style

The default style is fairly plain, but Claude Skills can evolve. I had it reference the styling from https://md.doocs.org/ to keep things consistent with my previous articles.

Here’s the final result:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NNc7DlDz6x7ySfCUdS17Lw

3. Takeaways

While this Claude Skills setup isn’t fully automated yet, it’s already a massive improvement — it frees me from the repetitive manual grind. Once I add scheduled tasks and enable burst mode, it should get me to about 90% automation.

One caveat: token consumption is still pretty heavy. Fortunately, Claude Code has a five-hour reset mechanism, so I can schedule runs during off-hours to make the most of it.