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Threads, Bluesky & Mastodon skill

Build a presence on Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon: fit check, profile and server setup, native posts within each network's limits, discovery, reply routine and honest measurement.

Free · MIT licence · Copy needs a free sign-in

Category
Social & community
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 2,144 words
Version
v0.1.0
Price
Free · MIT

The Threads, Bluesky & Mastodon skill file

cmo-open-social/SKILL.md2,144 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-open-social
description: Build a presence on Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon: fit check, profile and server setup, native posts within each network's limits, discovery, reply routine and honest measurement.
---

A playbook for the three conversational text networks that sit beside X. They look alike but work differently: Threads ranks posts and rewards replies, Bluesky's default feeds are chronological and discovery runs through custom feeds and starter packs, and Mastodon is many independent servers where hashtags and boosts are the only way strangers find a post. The skill decides whether each network is worth the time, sets up the profile properly, writes the same idea natively for each one, and builds the reply habit that does most of the growth. Drafts are for the user to post: CMO.so's queue publishes to LinkedIn only today.

When to use

  • "Should we be on Bluesky / Threads / Mastodon?", setting up an account, choosing a Mastodon server.
  • Adapting articles, LinkedIn or X posts for these networks; posts that get no replies.
  • An audience that is moving off X and the business wants to follow it.
  • Not for: X itself (use cmo-x-growth), choosing the overall channel mix (use cmo-social-strategy), Instagram, TikTok and Facebook (use cmo-organic-social), one article into every channel at once (use cmo-content-repurposing).
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Adapts open work by typefully/agent-skills (MIT), blacktwist/social-media-skills (MIT), social-media-skills/skills (MIT), cameronrye/atproto-mcp (MIT), bills-appworks/bsky-sh-cli (MIT), mattn/bsky (MIT), postbasehq/postbase (AGPL-3.0), ihabunek/toot (GPL-3.0-only).

Everyday usage

How people use Threads, Bluesky & Mastodon day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

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Threads, Bluesky & Mastodon

A go / not-yet verdict per network with the reason

Ask your agentShould we be on Bluesky or Threads?
  • A go / not-yet verdict per network with the reason
  • A profile and server setup checklist per network
  • Native drafts per network with character counts, discovery element, alt text and reply settings
  • A 4-week posting and reply routine and a measurement log

More things to ask

  • Set up our brand on Mastodon
  • Which Mastodon server should we join?
  • Turn this article into Bluesky posts
  • Adapt my LinkedIn post for Threads and Bluesky
  • Our Threads posts get no replies
  • How do people find us on Mastodon?
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • Business, audience and voice (from CMO.so `brand_get` or a short description)
    • Which networks, which accounts exist, and who posts (a person or the brand)
    • The website domain (for the Bluesky handle and verified links) and, for Mastodon, the chosen server's rules
    • Source material: published articles, LinkedIn or X posts, notes
    • Minutes per day someone can spend replying
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • A go / not-yet verdict per network with the reason
    • A profile and server setup checklist per network
    • Native drafts per network with character counts, discovery element, alt text and reply settings
    • A 4-week posting and reply routine and a measurement log
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpThreads, Bluesky & Mastodon skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the Threads, Bluesky & Mastodon skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the Threads, Bluesky & Mastodon skill?

Build a presence on Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon: fit check, profile and server setup, native posts within each network's limits, discovery, reply routine and honest measurement.

It's one of cmo.so's open Social & community skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Should we be on Bluesky or Threads?”, “Set up our brand on Mastodon”, “Which Mastodon server should we join?”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with business, audience and voice (from CMO.so `brand_get` or a short description); which networks, which accounts exist, and who posts (a person or the brand); the website domain (for the Bluesky handle and verified links) and, for Mastodon, the chosen server's rules; source material: published articles, LinkedIn or X posts, notes; and minutes per day someone can spend replying.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get a go / not-yet verdict per network with the reason; a profile and server setup checklist per network; native drafts per network with character counts, discovery element, alt text and reply settings; and a 4-week posting and reply routine and a measurement log.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-social@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the Social & community group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

With cmo.so connected it can go further, using tools such as brand_get, posts_list through the MCP server. Every change is previewed and confirmed before it happens.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with Social media strategy; X (Twitter) growth; Content repurposing; and Social analytics. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: typefully/agent-skills (MIT); blacktwist/social-media-skills (MIT); and social-media-skills/skills (MIT).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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