Automate Your LinkedIn Carousels with Your AI Assistant (SlideDrift MCP)

To automate LinkedIn carousels with an AI assistant, connect the assistant to SlideDrift at https://slidedrift.com/mcp, then ask it for a carousel from a link or your notes. It shows you the credit cost, waits for your yes, and gives you an editable carousel to refine in the SlideDrift editor. Posts it prepares for LinkedIn are saved as drafts unless you approve scheduling, which is a separate step.

Connect your assistant in three steps

MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is what makes the connection. MCP's own introduction calls it "an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems." SlideDrift runs an MCP server, so a connected assistant can act on your SlideDrift account with the same ownership, plan and credit checks as the app.

1. Open your assistant's connector settings and add a custom connector, also called a remote MCP server, with this address:

   https://slidedrift.com/mcp

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2. SlideDrift opens in your browser. Sign in or create a free account, choose what the assistant may do, and select Allow connection.

3. Back in the chat, test the connection with a request that changes nothing:

   List my SlideDrift templates and Brand Kits. Don't create anything.

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In Claude, open Customize > Connectors, choose + Add, then Add custom connector. Anthropic's connector guide says custom connectors work on the Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, with one custom connector on Free, and that on Team and Enterprise an Owner first adds the connector under Organization settings > Connectors. In ChatGPT, adding a custom MCP server depends on your plan and workspace settings, and OpenAI's guide to developer mode and MCP apps has the current requirements. Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients take the same address in their MCP settings.

The SlideDrift sign-in screen lists five permissions, all ticked to start: Read your workspace, Create and edit carousels, Generate Covers, Export and share and Schedule LinkedIn posts. Untick any the assistant doesn't need. Without Schedule LinkedIn posts, for example, it can't schedule, change or cancel your LinkedIn posts. To change permissions later, revoke the connection in AI Connections and connect again. Never paste your SlideDrift password into a chat: you sign in on SlideDrift's own page.

What your assistant can do in SlideDrift

• Create a carousel from a link or pasted text, with 5 to 12 slides (7 unless you say otherwise), in portrait size by default, or square or stories size. From a link, SlideDrift sticks to what the page says. From notes, it may write extra copy to fill gaps unless you ask it to stick to your text.
• Plan first when you ask, so you see every slide before anything is created. Planning uses no credits.
• Use your images and Brand Kits. It can upload images you attach, use ones already in your SlideDrift account, and apply a Brand Kit. It can also make a Brand Kit from a public website's colors, fonts, logo and tone after you approve a preview. That uses no credits and counts toward your plan's Brand Kit limit.
• Make several at once: up to five carousels in one request, or a campaign of up to 100 carousel drafts with captions and planned times.
• Edit a carousel you own, such as replacing text or an image, after you approve a preview of the change. Each edit saves a restore point in Version history. Pro template slides can't be edited this way.
• Export and share: a PDF, PNG slides or public image links (one JPEG per slide, which anyone with the link can open for 30 days), plus share links you can turn off.
• Work with LinkedIn: save drafts, schedule posts, change or cancel them, and add a first comment.
• Check your credits and anything still running in the background.

Every new carousel comes back as a link to the SlideDrift editor, where you can change the text, layout and images before you export. The MCP setup guide lists every tool.

What costs credits, and what needs your approval

SlideDrift doesn't ask before reading or planning. Anything that spends credits, edits a carousel, exports, shares or touches your LinkedIn posts comes back to you first with the cost or the details. SlideDrift holds the action until the assistant confirms that exact action, and it tells the assistant to confirm only after you say yes.

Because your assistant is the one asking, read each quote before you agree. Claude can also ask you to approve its tool calls, and Anthropic advises choosing Allow always only for a server and tool you trust to run unsupervised.

Prompts to copy

Replace the parts in square brackets. Each prompt asks for the cost first and stops before anything goes to LinkedIn. The MCP prompt recipes have shorter versions.

One carousel from a link

Use SlideDrift to make a 7-slide LinkedIn carousel from the article below.
Audience: [who it's for]
Angle: [the one lesson to pull out]
Use a standard template and my [name] Brand Kit. Stick to what the article says.
Show me the credit cost and wait for my yes. When it's ready, give me the editor link.
Don't export or schedule it.

[article link]

The page has to be public. If it's behind a sign-in, paste the text instead of the link. To see the outline first, add "Plan it first and show me every slide." You can also ask for a structure, such as a checklist, a framework, common mistakes, a case study or a hot take. The guide to making a carousel from a URL covers picking one angle from a long article.

A carousel with your own images

Use SlideDrift to make an 8-slide carousel from my notes below, with the images I've attached.
Use each image once at most, and only where it fits the slide.
Plan it first: show me every slide and the credit cost, then wait for my yes.
Don't export, share or schedule it.

[your notes]

The images are added to your SlideDrift account, so you can reuse them later. You still make the final call on crops in the editor.

A month of weekly drafts

Plan a SlideDrift campaign of 4 weekly carousels for my LinkedIn profile, one from each article below.
One draft every [day, time and time zone], starting [date].
For each, show me the article, the angle, the full caption and the date.
Show me the whole run sheet and the total credit cost, then wait for my yes.
Keep every post as a draft. Don't schedule or publish anything.

[article link 1]
[article link 2]
[article link 3]
[article link 4]

After you approve, SlideDrift creates the carousels in the background and saves each one as a draft on your Schedule page, with its caption and planned time. Ask the assistant for progress at any point. If one fails, the assistant can usually retry it after a new quote, without redoing the others. Campaigns need a LinkedIn account connected in SlideDrift, so they need a paid plan. Run one carousel through the whole flow before you plan a month of them, and use the carousel content calendar guide to choose the topics.

Worked example: one blog post, start to finish

Drafts, scheduling and publishing are separate steps

• A draft is saved on your Schedule page with its account, caption and planned time. It won't publish, and saving it is free.
• A scheduled post waits in the queue for its time. Scheduling needs its own approval, which shows the account, full caption, date and time. Scheduling is free.
• A post is published only when LinkedIn accepts it. That's when a carousel uses 20 credits, or none with the SlideDrift banner.

SlideDrift won't schedule a carousel if your remaining credits can't cover it along with your other carousels due before your credits renew. Campaign drafts move into the queue only after a separate approval.

LinkedIn scheduling needs a paid plan. According to the LinkedIn scheduling guide, Starter includes one personal profile, Pro three LinkedIn accounts and Agency ten, and Company Pages need Pro or Agency. Your assistant sees each Company Page by name but a personal profile only as "LinkedIn profile", numbered if you've connected more than one, because LinkedIn's terms don't let a member's name leave SlideDrift.

Check the slides before a post is due. LinkedIn's help page on document posts says you can edit a post's description after posting, but not the document.

Limits by plan

A request for several carousels counts once per carousel. If you reach the limit, the assistant is told how long to wait. Free accounts also have daily limits, such as 5 carousels a day and 2 with Pro templates. Adding the same assistant again, such as Claude, replaces its older connection instead of taking another slot. During a trial, the allowance of the plan you're trying applies. Pricing shows the credits each plan includes.

Review every carousel before it goes out

Before you export or schedule, open the editor link and check that:

• The first slide makes one clear promise.
• Every claim matches the source.
• Each slide carries one idea you can read on a phone.
• Images are cropped around what matters.
• The caption adds context instead of repeating the slides.
• The account, date and time zone are right.

LinkedIn's guidance on AI-assisted posts welcomes them when they reflect a real person's view, expects you to review, edit and approve them, holds you responsible for them, and asks you to disclose heavy AI use. For a fuller pass, use the guide to reviewing AI-generated LinkedIn content and the LinkedIn carousel checklist.

Make a carousel from your notes

Want to see what SlideDrift makes before you connect an assistant? Paste your notes or a link. SlideDrift opens with your text filled in, and nothing is spent until you press Generate. You can connect your assistant later from AI Connections.

Your notes, post or link

Create carousel

Free to start. Opens SlideDrift with your text filled in.

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