An AI agent skill to automate and manage newsletters, social media publishing, subscribers, attribution, and sponsor workflows through the Maito workspace.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install maito
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install maito using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Maito?
The Maito integration is a powerful tool designed to turn your AI agent into a fully capable publishing assistant. By leveraging this skill, developers and creators can manage their newsletter production, audience segmentation, social media outreach, and sponsor tracking directly within a unified workspace. It is built to operate seamlessly with Maito MCP tools, ensuring secure, authenticated operations for drafting, scheduling, and analyzing newsletter performance.
As part of the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, this skill provides structured workflows that safely handle publisher tasks without risking destructive changes or unauthorized publishing. If your agent is not connected to an authenticated session, it intelligently defaults to generating high-quality markdown handoffs, making it a highly flexible asset for any automated publishing stack.
Maito Use Cases
- Drafting, refining, and preparing newsletter issues, including preflight checks for facts, CTA alignments, and sponsor obligations.
- Creating platform-specific social media drafts (X/Twitter and LinkedIn) based directly on published newsletter content.
- Analyzing audience growth, subscriber categories, and tracking signup sources to optimize acquisition strategies.
- Managing sponsor notes, preparing performance recaps, and tracking issue inventory for renewal workflows.
- Integrating agent-driven publishing pipelines into a single system of record, replacing messy spreadsheets and disparate documents using Openclaw Skills.
How Maito Works
- Identify Context: The agent determines the target publication, audience tone, send deadlines, and primary publishing goals.
- Discover State: When authenticated tools are active, the agent inspects existing drafts, subscriber segments, sources, and active sponsor notes to avoid duplication.
- Prepare Drafts: The agent drafts the smallest actionable piece of content, such as a source queue item, an issue block, or a social thread, keeping platform constraints visible.
- Preflight Review: It performs rigorous quality checks, verifying links, sponsor copy, CTA gaps, and audience risks.
- Secure Persistence: If authenticated via Openclaw Skills, the agent saves changes directly to the Maito workspace; otherwise, it outputs a ready-to-use handoff package.
- Human-in-the-Loop Approval: The skill strictly enforces an authorization guardrail, requiring explicit human consent before triggering test sends, scheduling, or importing subscribers.
- Reporting: Finally, the agent provides a clear summary of updated objects, changes made, and outstanding tasks requiring human action.
Maito Setup
To start using the Maito publishing workspace skill, you must ensure your environment has access to connected Maito MCP tools.
Prerequisite: Connect Maito MCP
Configure your AI agent client to connect to the Maito MCP server. Follow the official documentation at https://getmaito.com/docs/mcp/tools to set up your environment variables or credentials.
Step-by-step Setup
- Ensure you have an authenticated Maito session. Do not share API keys directly in agent prompts.
- Add the skill to your agent configuration. For Openclaw Skills, register the workspace handlers to allow the agent to detect publications and subscriber segments.
- Verify your connection by requesting a quick state check:
claw skill list
- If Maito is not currently connected, the agent will gracefully fall back to generating markdown drafts with manual handoffs.
Maito Data Schema & Taxonomy
This skill interacts with the Maito API schema, organizing workflow data into clear taxonomies:
| Object Category | Key Fields & Metadata | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Issue Drafts | subject_line, preview_text, body_markdown, sections, sponsor_placements |
Holds newsletter issue content |
| Social Posts | platform (X/LinkedIn), copy_text, media_urls, character_count |
Handles channel-specific marketing promotional drafts |
| Subscribers | email, segments, categories, signup_source, attribution_metrics |
Handles audience segmentation and campaign tracking |
| Sponsor Notes | sponsor_name, placements, recap_metrics, renewal_status |
Tracks performance and commitments for advertisers |
All workflows leverage structured tracking metadata to maintain a single system of record, ensuring compatibility across different Openclaw Skills setups.
Maito Advanced Features
- Context-Aware Handoffs: Automatically generates Maito-ready Markdown/HTML handoffs with complete source notes if the agent is offline or unauthenticated.
- Channel-Specific Social Draft Optimization: Auto-formats promotional threads tailored specifically to the structural limits and link rules of LinkedIn and X.
- Structured Source Queueing: Allows agents to maintain a research/source queue to cleanly back up factual assertions made in newsletter drafts.
- Built-in Safety Guardrails: Hardcoded prevention of accidental subscriber deletion, draft publishing, or test sending without explicit human approval.
- Unified System of Record Integration: Replaces scattered spreadsheets by mapping subscriber attribution metrics directly back to Maito campaigns using robust Openclaw Skills pipelines.
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