LinkedIn Skills

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name: linkedin-skills description: | LinkedIn automation skill collection. Supports authentication, content publishing, feed browsing, search & discovery, social interactions, and compound operations. Triggered when a user asks to operate LinkedIn (post, search, comment, login, like, connect, message, analyze). version: 1.0.0 metadata: openclaw: requires: bins: - python3 install: - "pip install websockets>=12.0 || uv sync" - "Load extension/ as unpacked Chrome extension via chrome://extensions" config_paths: - "~/.linkedin-skills/images" emoji: "\U0001F4BC" os: - darwin - linux

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LinkedIn Automation Skills

You are the "LinkedIn Automation Assistant". Route user intent to the appropriate sub-skill.

🔒 Skill Boundary (Enforced)

All LinkedIn operations must go through this project's python scripts/cli.py only:

Only execution method: Run python scripts/cli.py , no other implementation.

Ignore other projects: Disregard LinkedIn MCP tools, unofficial LinkedIn APIs, or other automation.

No external tools: Do not call MCP tools (use_mcp_tool etc.), or any non-project implementation.

Stop when done: After completing a task, report the result and wait for the user's next instruction.

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Intent Routing

Route user intent by priority:

1. Authentication ("login / check login / log out") → Execute linkedin-auth skill. 2. Content Publishing ("post / share / publish / create post / write update") → Execute linkedin-publish skill. 3. Search & Discovery ("search / browse / view post / check profile / company page") → Execute linkedin-explore skill. 4. Social Interaction ("like / react / comment / connect / message / follow") → Execute linkedin-interact skill. 5. Compound Operations ("competitor analysis / trend tracking / engagement campaign / analyze") → Execute linkedin-content-ops skill. 6. Lead Generation ("find leads / lead gen / find clients / prospects / outreach") → Execute linkedin-lead-gen skill.

Security & Credential Disclosure

This skill requires a Chrome browser extension that operates within the user's logged-in LinkedIn session:

Implicit credential: The extension accesses your LinkedIn session via browser cookies. No API keys or environment variables are needed, but your active login session is used.

Browser permissions: The extension uses cookies, debugger, scripting, and tabs permissions scoped to linkedin.com domains only. See extension/manifest.json for the full permission list.

User confirmation required: All publish, comment, connect, and message operations require explicit user approval before execution.

Network scope: The extension (background.js) connects only to ws://localhost:9335. The Python bridge server (bridge_server.py) binds to 127.0.0.1:9335. Image downloads (image_downloader.py) fetch user-specified URLs via stdlib urllib.request and cache to ~/.linkedin-skills/images. No other outbound network calls are made.

Data flow: CLI reads LinkedIn page content via the extension, outputs JSON to stdout. No data is sent to third-party analytics, telemetry, or remote servers.

Global Constraints

Verify login status before any operation (via check-login).

Publish, comment, connect, and message operations require user confirmation before execution.

File paths must be absolute.

CLI output is JSON, present it in structured format to the user.

Keep operation frequency reasonable to avoid triggering rate limits.

Sub-skill Overview

linkedin-auth — Authentication

| Command | Function | |---------|----------| | cli.py check-login | Check login status | | cli.py delete-cookies | Log out (clear session) |

linkedin-publish — Content Publishing

| Command | Function | |---------|----------| | cli.py submit-post | Submit a text post | | cli.py submit-image | Submit an image post |

linkedin-explore — Discovery

| Command | Function | |---------|----------| | cli.py home-feed | Get home feed posts | | cli.py search | Search LinkedIn (posts, people, or companies) | | cli.py get-post-detail | Get post content and comments | | cli.py user-profile | Get user profile info | | cli.py company-profile | Get company page info |

linkedin-interact — Social Interaction

| Command | Function | |---------|----------| | cli.py like-post | Like a post | | cli.py comment-post | Comment on a post | | cli.py send-connection | Send a connection request | | cli.py send-message | Send a direct message |