This skill orchestrates four lower-level skills:

essay-write or viral-text → drafts the content
image-prompt style anchor + per-slide prompts
common/runners execute layer → batch generation via the chosen provider
common/style-library/carousel/ → style anchor (24 bundled styles + user overrides)

Use when the user wants a finished carousel, not just prompts. Without --execute, returns the 8 prompts + captions for manual paste; with --execute, generates and saves the actual PNG slides.

This skill does NOT:

Compose the slides into a single tall image — Instagram / LinkedIn handle multi-image posts natively.
Add text overlays via a design tool — text either gets generated INSIDE the image (gpt-image-2 / Ideogram / Imagen) via --text-mode embedded, or is left to the user's editor (--text-mode overlay).
Generate animated carousels (those are reels — use reel-builder).
Post to platforms — that is post-publisher, which takes this skill's output directory as its input.

carousel-builder

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