Blogger Agent Workflow: Skill-Driven Drafting, SEO Metadata, and Publishing to Google Blogger

The Blogger Agent (github.com/jakefearsd/blogger-agent, separate from the Wikantik codebase) is a workspace that lets a coding agent research, draft and publish blog posts to four Google Blogger publications. It is not a hosted service. Capabilities are split into modular Agent Skills (SKILL.md files under skills/) plus small Python utilities in scripts/ that wrap the Google Blogger API v3 and the Google Places API. Publishing goes only to Blogger, through the API; there are no webhooks and no Ghost, WordPress or Dev.to integration.

The four blogs it manages are San Diego Local Wiki, The California Foothills, Exploring Berlin! and Berlin Local Wiki, registered with their topical focus, audience and tone in blog_configs.md. See TheLocalWikiBloggerSites for the sites themselves.

1. Quick-Reference: The Fully Automated Publishing Skill

The fully_automated_publishing skill is the orchestrator for scheduled or unattended runs. Its steps:

Step	What happens	Artifact
1. Topic selection	Take a pending idea for the target blog from `content_calendar.md`, or run `ideate_topics` to add new ones	Topic and target blog
2. Context	Read the blog's focus, audience and tone from `blog_configs.md`	Brief
3. Deep research	Targeted web searches for verified facts, dates, names and logistics	Research notes
4. Drafting	`write_blog_post`: 800 to 1,200+ words of HTML following the brand-voice and SEO reference files	HTML draft
5. Location enrichment	`scripts/places_manager.py` fetches the address, coordinates and a Maps link for a static map card	Location block
6. SEO metadata	3-5 labels and a search description under 150 characters	Labels and `customMetaData`
7. Featured image	An `image-generator` subagent creates the image, which is committed to the `blog-assets` GitHub repository and referenced by its raw URL	Image in a responsive `<figure>`
8. Publish	`scripts/publish_post.py` posts to the chosen blog (`--draft` stages instead of going live)	Live post URL
9. Track	Record the post in `content_calendar.md`	Calendar row
10. Promote	`promote_on_socials` appends Twitter/X copy to `social_drafts.md`	Social drafts

The other skills (draft_and_review, publish_to_blogger, fetch_place_details, generate_featured_image, fetch_google_photo) cover the human-in-the-loop path and the individual steps.

2. Quality and SEO Standards

The workspace guidelines (AGENTS.md) set the bar that every post must meet:

Depth: 800 to 1,200+ words, with verified dates, figures and locations; no thin overviews or listicles, and no fabricated facts.
Voice: casual, witty and authoritative, opening with a narrative hook and avoiding stock LLM openers and closers.
Structure: clean HTML fragments with no <html> wrapper and no <h1> (Blogger supplies the title as <h1>), <h2> for sections and <h3> for subsections, at least one styled "insider tip" callout, concrete visitor logistics, and two or three outbound links to official sources.
Search metadata: 3 to 5 labels (tags) and a meta search description under 150 characters, sent to Blogger as custom metadata alongside optional location coordinates.
Tooling: publish through scripts/publish_post.py, not throwaway scripts.