New Blog Post

Interactive skill for scaffolding a new blog post. Follow these steps in order.

Step 1: Get Post Title

If the user didn't provide a title in their message, ask them:

What's the title for your new blog post?

Wait for their response before continuing.

Step 2: Generate Slug and Paths

Derive the slug from the title:

•Lowercase
•Replace spaces and special characters with hyphens
•Remove consecutive hyphens
•Strip leading/trailing hyphens

code

Title: "Building CLI Tools in Go"
Slug:  "building-cli-tools-in-go"
Path:  content/blog/building-cli-tools-in-go/
File:  content/blog/building-cli-tools-in-go/index.md

Check if the directory already exists. If it does, inform the user and ask how to proceed.

Step 3: Create the Post

Create the directory and markdown file:

bash

mkdir -p content/blog/<slug>

Write content/blog/<slug>/index.md with this template:

markdown

---
title: "<title>"
date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
description: ""
tags: []
draft: true
---

<!-- Start writing your post here -->

Use today's date. Leave description and tags empty for the author to fill in.

Step 4: Confirm

Tell the user:

•The file path that was created
•That the post is marked as draft: true (won't appear in production builds, visible with hugo server --buildDrafts)
•Remind them to fill in description and tags
•They can optionally add a cover image by placing a cover.jpg (or .png, .svg, .webp) in the post's directory — the template picks it up automatically
•If the Hugo dev server is running, they can preview immediately at http://localhost:1313/blog/<year>/<month>/<slug>/