finalize-month

/socialforge:finalize-month — Month Finalizer

Script location. If your host does not set ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}, the scripts are in this plugin's scripts/ folder, next to skills/. Run them with Python 3.10 or newer: python, or python3 where python is not found (macOS, many Linux systems).

Package all approved posts into the organized delivery folder structure.

The user starts this skill: it is not model-invocable (disable-model-invocation: true), because it copies the delivery, can upload it and send a completion message, and offers the scheduler hand-off. An orchestrator that reaches this step tells the user to run /socialforge:finalize (or /socialforge:finalize-month) and stops.

Execution gate

Packaging copies and renames files, and steps 5-6 can upload to a Drive and send a completion message. After the Step 0 delivery audit passes, show an Execution Summary (posts packaged, any force-finalized posts, destination folder, whether a Drive upload and a notification will happen and to whom) and proceed only on an explicit yes; any other reply cancels with nothing written or sent. --force still needs the user to have typed it.

Pre-Finalization Check

Step 0 — run the delivery audit, before any packaging:

python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/delivery_audit.py" --brand {brand} --month {YYYY-MM}

It re-derives the month's claims from the ledger and the disk: every status in the vocabulary, revision history landing on the recorded status, no ghost posts the calendar never knew, no gate bypassed on the way to delivery (force_finalized is surfaced loudly, not left as a buried flag), every FINAL post's referenced file existing and non-empty, the failure log loadable, and cost totals honest about incompleteness. Exit 1 means the delivery is claiming something the disk does not support — resolve the findings before packaging, never around them. The verdict lands in delivery-audit.json beside the tracker.

Then:

• All posts must be FINAL status (or --force to skip unapproved) WARNING: --force bypasses ALL approval gates. Use only in emergencies, and only when the user has typed --force (or explicitly said to force-finalize) in this conversation — never add it on your own initiative, including when this skill was invoked without the user typing its command (hosts such as Codex ignore disable-model-invocation). All force-finalized posts are logged with force_finalized: true in status-tracker.json for audit trail — and the delivery audit reports every one of them as a violation the client-facing record must acknowledge.
• All compliance checks passed
• All required approvals obtained per approval-chain.json
• Calendar document assembled

If any posts are not FINAL: "3 posts still pending approval. Finalize anyway with --force, or resolve pending items first."

Final Folder Structure

FINAL/
├── 00-Calendar-Document/
│   └── {brand}-{month}-calendar.json   # delivery manifest; DOCX conversion is a manual step
├── 01-Ready-to-Publish/
│   └── Week-{N}/
│       └── {date}-Post{id}-{title}/
│           └── {platform}/
│               ├── image-{WxH}.png
│               ├── copy.txt
│               └── preview.png
├── 02-Carousels/
├── 03-Video-Production-Kit/
├── 04-Stories-Shorts/
├── 05-Review-Gallery/
├── 06-Publishing-Schedule/
└── 07-Production-Checklist/

Process

1. Verify all approval gates
2. Organize files into folder structure
3. Generate publishing schedule (dates + times + platforms)
4. Generate production checklist (remaining manual tasks)
5. Upload to Google Drive (if connected)
6. Send completion notification via Slack/email
7. Remind the user: once the month has run, ingest its analytics export with /socialforge:ingest-performance — that is what lets next month's /socialforge:ideate-month compound measured wins instead of memory
8. Only if the user asks: the optional scheduler hand-off below

Optional: hand off to a scheduler (opt-in)

Finalizing is complete without this. Offer it only when the user asks and a scheduler connector (~~scheduler) is already connected; the catalog entry is postiz in .mcp.json.connectors-reference, and nothing connects by default. SocialForge never schedules or publishes on its own initiative.

1. Preconditions. The Step 0 delivery audit passed and every post to be handed off is FINAL. A post that was force-finalized is handed off only after the user re-confirms that post by id.
2. Show the exact batch before any scheduler call: per post, the id, the channel/account, the date and time, the copy exactly as it will post, the media file, and which posts used AI generation so the platform-native AI-content label is set where it applies (references/content-credentials-by-platform.md).
3. Explicit approval for exactly that batch. The approval names the posts and the times. Changing any post, channel or time is a new approval, and "the folder looks good" is not approval to schedule.
4. Say which action you are asking for. The Postiz MCP's scheduling tool can schedule, save a draft, or publish immediately (docs.postiz.com/mcp/introduction, checked 2026-10-04). Default to a draft or a scheduled post; publish immediately only for a post the user named and said to publish now.
5. Record what the scheduler returned (post ids, channel, time) next to 06-Publishing-Schedule/. If a call fails, report the failure; never retry blind and never say "scheduled" for a post whose call did not return success.

Connector facts, checked 2026-10-04: Postiz is open source and self-hostable (AGPL-3.0, github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app), connects to Claude through OAuth at the URL in the catalog entry (postiz.com/claude), and is listed in Anthropic's plugin directory (claude.com/plugins/postiz). Postiz's directory connector leaves out its media-generation tools, per Postiz's own page; SocialForge does not use them.