Recipes

Each recipe is a prompt a writer can paste into Claude, ChatGPT or Notion once WriteStack is connected, plus the tool calls a well-behaved agent makes. Use them to test an agent, or as building blocks in your own.

Draft and queue Notes from a postCopy Anchor Link

Read my latest post and draft five Notes from it in my voice. Show them to me before saving.

1. get_writing_style
2. The post text or link the writer gives (or get_article if it is already a WriteStack article)
3. Show drafts, then create_many_notes with status: "ready"
4. get_schedule_capacity
5. Confirm the manual Sync step, then schedule_notes with userConfirmedManualSync: true
6. Remind the writer to click Sync N scheduled notes to Substack under My Notes → Scheduled notes (why)

Fill next week's queueCopy Anchor Link

Fill my open slots for next week with my best ready Notes.

1. get_schedule_capacity
2. get_next_available_slots
3. list_notes with status: "ready"
4. schedule_notes (at most remaining Notes)

Which Notes brought subscribersCopy Anchor Link

Which of my Notes from the last 30 days brought the most paid subscribers, and what do they have in common?

1. get_notes_statistics with a 30-day date range, sorted by subscribers
2. get_note on the top results for full text

Turn a winner into new draftsCopy Anchor Link

Take my best Note this month and write three new angles on it.

1. get_notes_statistics
2. get_writing_style
3. create_many_notes with status: "draft"

Reply to commentsCopy Anchor Link

Show me comments and mentions from today that I haven't answered.

1. list_activities (paginate with skip, max limit 50)

The agent can draft replies, but posting replies happens in WriteStack or Substack.

Write an article and push it to SubstackCopy Anchor Link

Write a draft article from these notes for my main newsletter and push it to Substack as a draft.

1. list_article_newsletters, then ask which newsletter
2. create_article with that publicationId
3. push_article_to_substack
4. get_article_substack_status to show the draft link

Pushing runs through the writer's browser extension. With WriteStack open it usually finishes in seconds.

Add an image that has no public linkCopy Anchor Link

Add the chart from my Google Drive to the top of this article.

1. Get the file's bytes: download it from Drive, or read the local file
2. create_article_image_upload with the articleId, file name, exact contentType and exact sizeBytes (max 10 MB)
3. Within 15 minutes, send each entry in parts as a PUT of the raw bytes for that range, with the same Content-Type:
   • Up to 4 MB there is one part: curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: image/png' --data-binary @chart.png '<uploadUrl>'
   • A bigger file has 2 or 3 parts of 4 MB (the last one shorter). Send them in order and wait for each to succeed: dd if=photo.jpg bs=4194304 skip=<part> count=1 2>/dev/null | curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: image/jpeg' --data-binary @- '<part url>'
4. get_article, then update_article with baseVersion, and either ![alt](imageUrl) in bodyMarkdown (to place it) or imageUrl: [imageUrl] (to add it at the end)

Every part uploads to www.writestack.io, so this works from sandboxes that can't reach Amazon S3. Uploading alone does not add the image. If the upload didn't finish, update_article says the image was skipped. An error response from a PUT says what didn't match (file type, part size or order, or an expired link). Fix it, or ask for new upload links.

Cross-post a NoteCopy Anchor Link

Schedule this Note and also post it to my LinkedIn through Buffer.

1. list_buffer_channels, then confirm the channel
2. create_note with bufferChannelIds
3. Schedule as above

Ask the CoachCopy Anchor Link

Ask my WriteStack Coach what I should write about this week.

1. ask_coach with the question. Pass the returned thread_id to continue the same conversation.

This uses the writer's Coach allowance.