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Carousels MCP — Communication skill for Claude Code

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Carousels MCP - turn a blog post into a LinkedIn, Instagram or TikTok Carousel.

How to install Carousels MCP

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open houtini-ai/carousels-mcp and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Carousels MCP does

Carousels MCP - turn a blog post into a LinkedIn, Instagram or TikTok Carousel.

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README

carousels-mcp

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MCP server that turns articles, transcripts, and markdown into LinkedIn carousel PDFs, Instagram PNGs, and Threads PNGs. Content in, slides out. No web UI, no cloud service.

Where this came from

I'd been building LinkedIn carousels manually -- Gemini for the content distillation, SVG generation for the slides, Puppeteer for the PDF conversion, then merging everything together. The whole process is documented in [this article](https://houtini.com/create-linkedin-carousel-slides-gemini/). It worked well but it was a lot of steps. So I packaged the pipeline into an MCP server. Now Claude handles the orchestration and I just tell it what I want.

What it does

You've got an article or a YouTube transcript or some markdown notes and you want a carousel. This server handles everything: content extraction, slide planning, SVG generation, PDF/PNG output. Give it a URL and it scrapes the content. Give it just a topic and it tells Claude how to research first using other MCP tools, then call back with the results.

The content extractor is actually quite good at picking the right slide type automatically. Numbers and percentages become stat slides. Ordered lists become step-by-step slides. Strong emphasis becomes takeaway callouts. "Before/after" language triggers comparison slides. The usual content, list, and