PostKing · Blog

Create blog publications and generate, iterate on, and publish articles on PostKing — hosted, or pushed to WordPress, Medium, or Substack.

Handles the blog lifecycle on PostKing: publications (the containers articles live under), AI article generation, review/editing, and publishing — either to the PostKing-hosted blog or out to connected external platforms. Requires an active brand — use the postking skill's brand-pick flow first if one isn't set.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user wants to create or manage a blog publication; generate, review, edit, or rewrite a blog article; publish an article (hosted or external); check on an in-progress generation; or manage blog authors/categories.

When NOT to Use

• Social posts, content weeks, or repurposing to social → postking-social.
• Landing pages or side pages → postking-landing-pages.
• The SEO/GEO keyword-to-roadmap pipeline (seeds → keywords → clusters → briefs) that eventually produces briefs for articles → postking-seo. This skill covers direct/manual blog generation and publishing, not that pipeline's brief-to-article automation.
• Saved voice profile management or a standalone de-slop pass → postking-brand-voice.
• No active brand yet → postking-getting-started.

Minimal tool subset

• list_publications, create_publication, update_publication, list_blogs — publications.
• generate_blog_post, get_blog_status, get_job — async generation + polling.
• get_blog_article, update_blog_article, rewrite_text — review and iterate.
• publish_blog_article, list_publishing_connections, schedule_blog_article — publishing.
• list_blog_authors, create_blog_author, list_blog_categories, create_blog_category — metadata.
• import_blog_articles, delete_blog_article — housekeeping.

Procedure

Set up a publication

1. list_publications({ brandId? }) (or list_blogs, which also returns a statusBreakdown of existing articles) — find an existing publication.
2. create_publication({ title, description?, layout?, brandId? }) if none exists — returns a publicationId.

Generate a blog article

1. generate_blog_post({ publicationId, topic, voiceProfileId?, targetLength?, primaryKeywords?, secondaryKeywords?, brandId? }) — note the param names: primaryKeywords/secondaryKeywords, not keywords; targetLength (short/medium/long), not length. Async; returns articleId + operationId.
2. Poll get_blog_status({ articleId }), or get_job({ pollUrl: operationId, brandId, wait: true }), until status is completed (or failed).
3. get_blog_article({ articleId }) — review the draft (full content, SEO fields, previewUrl, editUrl).

Review and iterate

• update_blog_article({ articleId, title?, content?, excerpt?, status?, metaTitle?, metaDescription?, authorId?, categoryId? }) for direct edits — only the fields you pass are changed.
• rewrite_text({ text, voice?, platform: "blog" }) to polish a specific passage, then paste the result back in via update_blog_article.
• Re-run generate_blog_post with a refined topic/primaryKeywords for a fresh pass instead of patching piecemeal changes.

Publish

• PostKing-hosted: update_blog_article({ articleId, status: "published" }) makes it live on the brand's PostKing blog immediately.
• Scheduled hosted publish: schedule_blog_article({ articleId, scheduledAt }) — future ISO 8601 datetime; auto-publishes (and auto-pushes to any autoPublish-flagged external connections) when the time arrives.
• External (WordPress / Medium / Substack, connected via the dashboard): list_publishing_connections({ publicationId }) to find connection IDs, then publish_blog_article({ articleId, connectionIds: [...] }).
• get_blog_status({ articleId }) — confirm the final status and get the live URL(s).

CLI fast path

Goal	Command
List publications / articles	pking blogs list [--status draft|published] / pking publications list
Create a publication	pking publications create --title "..." [--description "..."]
Generate a blog	pking blogs generate --publication <id> --topic "..." [--keywords "kw1,kw2"] [--voice <id>] [--length short|medium|long] --wait
Check generation status	pking blogs status <articleId>
View an article	pking blogs view <articleId>
Publish (hosted, or external via connections)	pking blogs publish <articleId> [--connections <id1,id2>]
Delete	pking blogs delete <articleId>

For the full command catalog, use the postking skill's references/commands.md, or run pking blogs --help / pking publications --help.

Pitfalls

• generate_blog_post param names: primaryKeywords/secondaryKeywords and targetLength, not keywords/length. Passing the wrong names silently drops them (extra zod fields are ignored, not errored).
• Hosted publish vs. external publish are different tools. publish_blog_article requires a non-empty connectionIds array — it's for pushing to external platforms, not for making the PostKing-hosted copy live. Use update_blog_article({ status: "published" }) for that.
• No pking blogs auto-assign-cta CLI command exists. If the user wants a CTA auto-assigned to a piece of content, that capability is the MCP tool seo_auto_assign_cta (owned by the postking-seo skill's surface) — don't invent a CLI equivalent.
• Generation is async and can take a couple of minutes. Poll get_blog_status or get_job rather than assuming failure early; get_job supports wait: true to block instead of polling manually.
• update_blog_article is a partial update. Omitted fields are left unchanged — no need to resend the whole article to change one field.

Verification

• get_credits({ detail: "short" }) — confirms auth and balance.
• list_publications({}) — returns at least one publication once set up (or an empty list if none created yet, which is expected pre-setup).