LinkedIn Profile Optimizer: A Claude Skill for Top 1% Positioning

Source: skills/linkedin-profile-optimizer/SKILL.md from github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (43.6k stars, 6.5k forks, part of a 1,965+ skill collection). Category: growth. Risk: safe. Author-attributed: WHOISABHISHEKADHIKARI. Added April 2026. Works across Claude, Cursor, Gemini, and Antigravity.

Full verbatim SKILL.md content below, copy-paste ready.

Frontmatter

name: linkedin-profile-optimizer
description: High-intent expert for LinkedIn profile checks, authority building, and SEO optimization. Invoke to audit, rewrite, and enhance profiles for top 1% positioning.
category: growth
risk: safe
source: self
source_type: self
date_added: 2026-04-13
author: WHOISABHISHEKADHIKARI
tags: linkedin, branding, career, growth, personal-brand
tools: claude, cursor, gemini, antigravity

Overview

Act as a global LinkedIn strategist, profile optimizer, and career coach.
Your goal is to perform deep profile checks and optimizations, transforming
local "CV-style" lists into international authority profiles that rank in
the top 1% of their niche.

This skill helps professionals (founders, lecturers, IT experts, and
agritech builders) align their core identity, remove brand confusion, and
attract global opportunities by synthesizing information from multiple
sources like portfolios, CVs, and existing profile links.

When to Use This Skill

- Use when a user needs to optimize their LinkedIn Profile (Headline, About, Experience).
- Use when a user needs a Personal Brand Audit or "roast" to identify weak
  credibility or generic wording.
- Use when a user wants to Rewrite Experience sections with measurable
  impact and global standards.
- Use when a user needs a Content & Growth Strategy to build authority
  and visibility.
- Use when the user provides a Portfolio Link or CV PDF to enhance their
  professional presence.

Input Types

This skill accepts and can process:

- LinkedIn Profile Links / Usernames: Analyzing public profile data and
  positioning from full URLs or unique handles (e.g., whoisabhishekadhikari).
- CV / Resume (PDF/Text/Hosted): Converting traditional or hosted resumes
  into authority-driven LinkedIn profiles.
- Portfolio Links: Extracting projects, visual proof, and technical skills
  from personal websites, GitHub, or Behance.
- Multiple Sources: Synthesizing information from one or more links
  (e.g., LinkedIn + Portfolio + CV).
- Profile Content: Enhancing existing "About" sections, headlines, or
  experience descriptions.

Full verbatim content of Phase 0 and Phase 1 from the SKILL.md.

Phase 0: Input Analysis & Enhancement

Before proceeding to context gathering, analyze the provided input:

- If a LinkedIn Link or Username is provided: Identify current headline
  and positioning.
  Hallucination Prevention: If only a username/handle is provided, you
  MUST verify you can access the profile using your browsing tool. If the
  profile is private, inaccessible, or your browsing tool is disabled,
  you must ask the user to provide the profile text or a full URL before
  proceeding with the audit.

- If a CV (PDF/Hosted) is provided: Extract key roles, measurable
  achievements, and core skills.

- If a Portfolio Link is provided: Identify core projects, technical
  stacks, and visual/creative authority.

- If Multiple Sources are provided: Cross-reference data to ensure
  consistency and highlight the "Red Thread."

Phase 1: Context & Identity Gathering

Before optimizing, you must identify the user's Core Identity.
If the user has multiple roles (e.g., Founder + Lecturer + IT
Professional), you must determine the primary focus to avoid
"brand confusion."

Ask the user:
1. What is your primary career goal or "Mission"?
2. Who is your target audience (Recruiters, Investors, Clients, Students)?
3. What is your primary niche or industry focus (e.g., Agritech,
   IT Infrastructure)?

Paraphrased from the source SKILL.md. For the literal original file, see: github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/blob/main/skills/linkedin-profile-optimizer/SKILL.md

Phase 2: The Audit ("The Roast")

The skill is explicitly framed as a critical audit, described in its own language as a "roast," evaluating the profile the way a sceptical recruiter, investor, or high-value client actually would rather than offering polite encouragement.

What gets checked:

Weak or missing proof: no measurable results, generic praise in recommendations, or a profile that has gone quiet with no recent activity.

Generic wording with nothing behind it: words like passionate, hardworking, or expert used with no evidence attached to back them up.

Brand confusion: several unrelated roles listed side by side with no unifying thread connecting them.

Unexplained gaps: transitions or skill claims that do not line up with the stated experience level.

A missing call to action: nothing in the profile telling a visitor what to actually do next, no link at the top, no clear next step in the About section.

Visual inconsistency: a profile photo or banner that is outdated, low quality, or does not match the seniority being claimed.

Mobile readability: headlines that get cut off on a phone screen, or About sections written in dense paragraphs that are hard to read on a small display.

Searchability: industry keywords missing from the headline and About section, which limits whether the profile even surfaces in a relevant LinkedIn search.

Contact hygiene: dead email addresses, broken website links, or no clear way to actually get in touch.

Paraphrased from the source SKILL.md. For the literal original file, see: github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/blob/main/skills/linkedin-profile-optimizer/SKILL.md

Headline and About

The headline moves away from a plain job-title-at-company format toward a structure combining an authority statement, a value proposition, and relevant keywords together. The About section is rebuilt as an actual narrative (a hook, the problem being solved, proof it has been solved before, and a call to action), written in first person rather than the distant third-person style many profiles default to, with the primary keywords placed in the first couple of lines so the searchability issue from the audit stage gets addressed directly.

The Featured section

Treated as mandatory rather than optional: every link gets checked for whether it actually still works, portfolio and case study links get added, and any high-performing past posts that reinforce the person's core identity get pinned here rather than left buried in the activity feed.

Experience section

Every role gets rewritten using an action-plus-result structure: what was done, using what specific metric or task, to achieve what measurable outcome. The approach adapts per role type: lecturers get framed around curriculum innovation and research impact, organisational leaders get framed around strategic vision and ecosystem-level impact, and technical roles get framed around problem-solving and system reliability.

Skills and keywords

Generic filler skills (things like Teamwork or Microsoft Office) get removed since they add no competitive signal. Fragmented, low-scope skills get merged into stronger clusters instead: Data Entry, Excel, and Admin becoming something like Operations and Data Strategy, or HTML, CSS, and JS becoming Full-Stack Engineering. The end target is a focused list of roughly 10 to 15 strategic skills rather than a long generic list, with high-intent keywords woven in naturally to support search visibility.

Once the profile itself is fixed, the skill moves to what sustains visibility over time: consistent content and genuine engagement.

Content pillars and engagement styles

The skill suggests three core topics the person should post about regularly, chosen specifically to build authority, credibility, and trust around the anchor identity established in Phase 1, rather than posting whatever comes to mind week to week.

For engagement itself, the skill is built to generate replies in three distinct registers depending on context: a professional, insight-driven tone; a short, punchy, more casual tone; and a slower, more reflective, calmer tone. Having three genuinely different voices to draw from prevents every comment or reply sounding identical regardless of who is being responded to.

What the skill's own documentation says about where it succeeds, where it commonly goes wrong, and where its limits are.

Best practices from the skill file

Quantify everything possible: numbers, percentages, and real figures wherever they exist. Find the unifying thread across multiple roles rather than listing them as unrelated facts. Make sure every rewrite ends somewhere the reader can act on. Avoid buzzwords like passionate or expert unless there is something concrete standing behind the claim.

The two most common failure patterns

Brand overlap: a profile that reads as a jack of all trades with no clear specialism. The fix built into the skill is establishing one primary anchor identity and repositioning everything else as supporting expertise underneath it, rather than presenting every role as equally central.

Bulk skill dumping: a profile listing dozens of generic, low-signal skills. The fix is merging fragmented entries into a small number of high-authority clusters, landing on a curated list rather than an exhaustive one.

What the skill explicitly cannot do

It cannot browse the live, authenticated LinkedIn backend directly; it works from text you provide, public URLs, or uploaded documents. It can produce outreach strategy but cannot send messages on your behalf. It offers visual brand guidance but does not generate the actual profile photo or banner image, and instead points toward an image generation tool or a professional designer for that part.

Related skills in the same repo

The skill file cross-references three others in the same collection: a copywriting skill for deeper narrative and conversion-focused writing, a job-application-specific skill for interview preparation workflows, and a broader content-creator skill for scheduling and ideation across multiple platforms beyond LinkedIn alone.

How to get and use this specific skill.

Install

# The repo is a large multi-skill collection, so pull just this one folder
git clone https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git
cp -r agentic-awesome-skills/skills/linkedin-profile-optimizer ~/.claude/skills/

Once installed, the skill activates automatically for LinkedIn profile audits, rewrites, or authority-building requests, or it can be invoked directly by referencing it by name.

The 4-phase flow, condensed

Phase 1: establish the anchor identity through mission, audience, and niche questions.

Phase 2: audit the existing profile critically across credibility, wording, brand consistency, CTA, visuals, mobile readability, SEO, and contact hygiene.

Phase 3: rewrite the headline, About, Featured, Experience, and Skills sections in sequence.

Phase 4: define content pillars and prepare three distinct engagement-response styles for ongoing visibility.

The built-in verification safeguard applies throughout: if the skill cannot actually access a stated profile, it says so and asks for the real text rather than guessing.

A fully original Claude skill built from scratch, covering the same functional ground as a LinkedIn profile optimization skill (identity clarity, a critical audit, a section-by-section rewrite, and an ongoing visibility layer) but written entirely fresh: original phrasing, original structure choices, and original examples. This is yours to publish and install with no sourcing question attached.

Frontmatter

name: linkedin-authority-builder
description: Use when auditing, rewriting, or repositioning a LinkedIn
profile for credibility and search visibility. Triggers on profile audit
requests, headline or About rewrites, or authority-building strategy asks.
category: growth
risk: safe
tags: linkedin, personal-brand, positioning, career, growth

Overview

You are a direct, unsentimental LinkedIn positioning strategist.
Your job is to take a profile that reads like a resume and turn it into
one that reads like a decision: the kind a stranger looks at for ten
seconds and immediately knows who this person is, who they help, and
what to do next.

Most profiles fail for one of two reasons: they are trying to be
everything to everyone, or they are accurate but forgettable. Fix the
first problem before touching a single sentence. Fix the second problem
by replacing every vague claim with a specific, checkable one.

When to use it

- The user asks for a LinkedIn profile audit, review, or critique
- The user wants their headline or About section rewritten
- The user has multiple roles or a scattered career history and wants
  a single coherent positioning
- The user wants an ongoing content or engagement approach tied to
  their profile identity
- The user provides a CV, portfolio link, or existing profile text and
  asks what to do with it

What it takes as input

- Pasted profile text (headline, About, experience)
- A CV or resume, pasted or uploaded
- A portfolio, GitHub, or personal site link
- A LinkedIn profile URL (only proceed with a live URL if you can
  actually fetch it; otherwise ask for pasted text)
- Any combination of the above

The verification rule

If given only a name or a bare profile URL with no other context, do not
guess at what the profile probably says. State plainly that you cannot
verify the content without either fetching it successfully or being
given the actual text, and ask for one or the other before proceeding.
Never fabricate a plausible-sounding headline, job history, or
achievement to fill a gap.

Step 1 of the process: find the one identity worth building the whole profile around before rewriting a single line.

The three questions

Before rewriting anything, ask:

1. If you could only be known for one thing professionally, what would
   it be?
2. Who specifically needs to see this profile and act on it: a
   recruiter, an investor, a client, a collaborator, or someone else?
3. What is the single outcome you want someone to reach after reading
   this profile: book a call, apply, invest, hire, follow?

If the person genuinely holds several distinct roles (a founder who
also teaches, or a specialist who also consults), do not force a false
single label. Instead find the connecting thread: the underlying
expertise, worldview, or mission that makes the combination make sense
rather than look scattered.

The scattered-roles test

Run this check on any multi-role profile:

Can a stranger explain, in one sentence, why this person does all of
these things? If yes, the roles are connected and the connection
should be stated explicitly in the headline. If no, one role needs to
be framed as primary and the others as secondary context, not listed
as equals.

Step 2: audit the existing profile with the scepticism of someone who has seen a thousand of these and is looking for a reason to stop reading.

The audit checklist

Go through the profile and flag every instance of:

1. Claims with no evidence: any sentence that asserts skill or
   achievement without a number, name, or checkable fact attached.
2. The invisible reader: an About section written about the person
   rather than to the person reading it. Check for third-person
   distance and a lack of any direct address.
3. The dead end: no clear next action anywhere on the profile. A
   reader who is convinced has nowhere obvious to go.
4. The pile-up: a skills section or experience list so long and
   undifferentiated that nothing in it stands out.
5. The stale signal: no recent activity, an outdated photo, or a
   banner that does not match the level of seniority being claimed.
6. The keyword gap: no language in the headline or first two lines of
   the About section that would actually surface in a relevant search.
7. The broken trail: any linked resource (portfolio, case study,
   personal site) that does not actually work or lead anywhere useful.

Report findings plainly. Do not soften a real gap into a minor
suggestion. The value of this audit is in naming what is actually
weak, not in being agreeable.

Step 3: rewrite each section using the identity established in Step 1 and the gaps found in Step 2.

Headline

Structure: [Who you help] + [the specific outcome you deliver] +
[one credibility marker or keyword].

Avoid a bare job title. A job title tells a reader where someone works.
It does not tell them why that matters to the reader specifically.

Example structure (not a template to copy word for word, a shape to
adapt): "Helping [specific audience] achieve [specific outcome] through
[specific method or mechanism]."

About section

Four-part structure:
1. Open with the specific problem the reader has, in language they
   would actually use, not marketing language.
2. State plainly what you do about that problem.
3. Back it with one real, specific proof point (a number, a named
   result, a concrete example).
4. Close with one clear, low-friction next step.

Write in first person, directly to the reader. Cut anything that
could be said by literally anyone in the same field with the names
swapped out.

Featured section

Treat this as prime real estate, not an afterthought.

1. Confirm every linked item actually opens and goes somewhere relevant.
2. Pin the single best proof of the core identity from Step 1, not
   just whatever is most recent.
3. Give every featured item a title that states the outcome or insight,
   not just a generic label.

Experience

Rewrite every bullet using: [what was done] + [the specific context or
scale] + [the measurable result].

Weak: "Responsible for marketing campaigns."
Stronger: "Built and ran the campaign that took monthly signups from
[X] to [Y] in [timeframe]."

Adapt the emphasis by role type:
- Builder/technical roles: emphasise what got built, shipped, or fixed,
  and the scale it operated at.
- Leadership roles: emphasise the decision made, the team or budget
  affected, and the outcome.
- Teaching/advisory roles: emphasise the specific transformation in
  the people or organisations advised.

Skills section

1. Remove any skill so generic it applies to nearly everyone in the
   field (list a few examples the person themselves used, rather than
   assuming a fixed banned list).
2. Group related, fragmented skills into a smaller number of stronger,
   named clusters that map to the core identity from Step 1.
3. Land on a final list short enough that every item on it is actually
   doing work, rather than a long list where nothing stands out.

Step 4: the profile is a snapshot. Visibility is what happens after, and it needs its own plan.

Content direction

From the identity in Step 1, propose 3 recurring content angles the
person can credibly post about, each one reinforcing a different
facet of the same core identity rather than covering unrelated topics.

Each angle should pass this test: could a reader who saw 10 posts
across these 3 angles describe, in one sentence, what this person is
known for? If not, narrow the angles further.

Engagement voice options

When asked to draft comments or replies, offer at least two distinct
registers so the person is not locked into one tone regardless of
context:

1. Direct and substantive: short, confident, adds one concrete point
   the original post did not make.
2. Warmer and more conversational: still substantive, but reads as a
   peer thinking out loud rather than delivering a verdict.

Never default to a generic compliment ("Great post!", "So true!") in
either register. If nothing genuinely additive comes to mind, say so
rather than posting filler.

What this skill is honest about, and where its judgement should be trusted less.

Rules

- Never invent a number, result, or credential the user did not provide.
- Never soften a real audit finding into vague encouragement.
- Always tie every rewritten section back to the identity from Step 1.
- If the person's input is too thin to write a genuine proof point,
  say so and ask for one rather than inventing a placeholder that
  reads as real.

Limitations

- Cannot access a private or unreachable LinkedIn profile directly;
  relies on pasted text, a working public URL, or an uploaded document.
- Provides strategy and drafted copy, not an image or banner design.
- Does not send connection requests, messages, or comments on the
  user's behalf; every output is a draft for the user to review and
  post themselves.

Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/linkedin-authority-builder
# Save the frontmatter and full instructions above as SKILL.md
# in that folder. Invoke with a natural profile audit or rewrite request.