Content & CreativeDone with Claude Code
Draft and schedule a weekly newsletter
A /newsletter command in Claude Code finds the week's posts, drafts in the author's voice, gets approval, then creates and schedules the broadcast in Kit in about two minutes.
- What They Did
- Sid wrote a Claude Code skill, a markdown file, with a Kit v4 API key kept in .env. On /newsletter it reads the site's content index for posts from the last 7 days and drafts a short email using his voice rules. He reviews and approves the draft. It then creates the Kit broadcast through the API and schedules it for the time he gives.
- How It Went
- The whole run takes about two minutes, down from 30+ minutes by hand. He went from about two newsletters a month, sometimes none, to one every week.
- Worth Knowing
- Kit's API can't create forms, sequences or automations, only broadcasts, subscribers and tags. Auto-generating opt-ins and sequences per post isn't possible yet.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Set up a reusable /newsletter command for me. When I run it, it should find the posts I published this week in [folder or site URL], draft a newsletter in my voice using [2-3 past newsletters as style examples], and show me the draft for edits. Do not create or schedule anything in [email tool, e.g. Kit] until I approve; before that step, pause and show me exactly what will be sent and when.
Do this with a skill.
These SkillShop playbooks do this exact job.