Drafts & templates

The drafts module is the heart of LinkedIn MCP Pro — where every post starts its life.

Composer

The drafts page (/drafts) is a LinkedIn-styled composer with three modes:

Mode 1: Manual

A rich-text editor with a live LinkedIn preview to the right. What you see is what LinkedIn will render — same fonts, same spacing, same hashtag colors.

Toolbar:

• B / I / _strike / code formatting
• Bullet list, numbered list
• Inline link
• Emoji picker (system-native)
• Mention picker (autocomplete from your connections)
• Hashtag insert (auto-completes from your recent tags)
• Poll insert (LinkedIn polls)

Char counter: live, color-coded (green ≤ 700, amber 701–1300, red > 1300).

Mode 2: AI assist

Enter a 1-line prompt → the LLM drafts a full post for you.

Prompt: "announcing we raised series A, 12M led by sequoia, focus on AI agents"

The LLM is configurable at /llm. Default: whatever model you set in OPENAI_API_KEY env var (also supports Anthropic, OpenRouter, local via Ollama).

Output goes to the editor — you can tweak before saving.

Mode 3: Template

Pick from your saved templates at /templates.

A template is a post with placeholders:

Announcing: {{role}} at {{company}}!

We're hiring a {{role}} to join our {{team_size}}-person team.
{{pitch}}

If you're interested, DM me or apply here: {{link}}

When you use a template, you fill in the placeholders → saved as a new draft.

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Saving drafts

Three save states:

State	Visible to	Editable
Draft	You only	Yes
Scheduled	You only (until fired)	Yes (until queue runs)
Posted	Public	No (only delete via LinkedIn)

Drafts auto-save every 30 seconds. Manual save: Cmd/Ctrl+S or Save draft button.

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Templates

Templates live at /templates. CRUD operations:

Action	CLI	API
List	linkedin-mcp-templates list	GET /api/templates
Add	linkedin-mcp-templates add --name X --body Y	POST /api/templates
Update	linkedin-mcp-templates update --id X --body Y	PUT /api/templates/{id}
Delete	linkedin-mcp-templates delete --id X	DELETE /api/templates/{id}

Template variables are auto-extracted from {{...}} patterns. Use them in cover letters too.

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Hashtag intelligence

The composer suggests hashtags based on:

• Tags you've used before (frequency-ranked)
• Trending tags in your industry (LinkedIn search API)
• Tags from successful past posts (engagement-ranked)

Click to insert. Drag to reorder. Right-click to remove.

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Scheduling drafts

While saving, pick Schedule for → date/time picker → save.

See Scheduling for the queue mechanics.

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MCP tools for drafts

# AI agent example
drafts_list()
drafts_create(body="...", media=[...])
drafts_update(id="...", body="...")
drafts_delete(id="...")
drafts_publish(id="...")        # subject to safety gates
drafts_schedule(id="...", at="2026-01-15T14:00:00Z")

See MCP tools reference.

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Next

• Scheduling
• Engagement