carousellisted

# Carousel Turns a blog post into a posting-ready carousel: images for Instagram, a PDF document post for LinkedIn, captions, alt text, and an HTML review page for sign-off. > **Setup:** everything brand-specific lives in `brand.json` at the skill root. > Palette, logo, type, character budgets, and voice rules are all read from > there. Fill it in once. Do not edit the scripts to change brand values. > See the README for the full field reference. ## Load the voice skill first, if you have one Every word on a slide is customer-facing copy. If your brand has a voice skill, load it before writing any headline, body line, or caption. This skill governs structure and layout; the voice skill governs language. Where they seem to conflict, the voice skill wins on wording. The `voice_rules` block in `brand.json` is the machine-enforceable subset of that: the rules worth failing a build over. It pairs with a written voice guide rather than replacing one. ## The pipeline Blog → **angle briefing (stop here)** → card script → preflight → render → review page. The card script is the pivot. Everything downstream reads from it, so all editing happens there, never in the rendered output. ### Step 1. Read the source and brief the angles. Then stop. Read the post. Pull out what actually carries a slide: statistics with named sources, case studies, customer quotes, and list structures. Most posts support several carousels. Propose **two or three angles** and stop for a decision. Do no