A free skill for Claude Cowork

Audit your LinkedIn comments

When you comment on someone else's post, LinkedIn shows what you wrote to their audience, not yours. A good comment can reach people who would never see anything you publish.

LinkedIn counts how many people saw each of your comments. It just never shows you the pattern. This pulls a week of them together, judges what you actually wrote, and tells you whether the careful ones did any better than the quick ones.

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Whose idea this is

Not ours. The audit comes from Richard van der Blom, who has spent years researching how LinkedIn actually behaves.

He laid out the method in “Your Best Post This Week Is Not A Post”: open your activity page, pull the last seven days of comments, sort them into the ones keeping a relationship warm and the ones doing real work, then score what you actually said. He does it by hand in a spreadsheet. Fifteen minutes, once a week.

This does the same job automatically. Read his piece first — the argument is his, and it is worth your time. His wider research lives at richardvanderblom.com.

What it tells you

It measures six things about your week. Each one comes back with a number, a grade, and one thing to do about it — a figure with no verdict attached is just decoration.

1
How far commenting carried you. Total views against the size of your own following. Above one and commenting is reaching more people than your whole audience does.
2
How much you commented. Measured against the twenty a week Richard sets as the floor.
3
Whether one comment carried the week. Reach is lumpy. If a single comment did most of the work, the week is one lucky room rather than a pattern.
4
How often somebody answered you. A reply is the difference between talking at a room and talking with it.
5
Where the effort went. Replying under your own posts keeps a thread alive, but it only reaches people who already found you.
6
Whether what you wrote added anything. Every comment is read and sorted, blind to how it performed — so the report can tell you honestly whether better writing actually travels further.

Each one gets a letter grade and one concrete next step. That A-to-F scale is this tool's own, not research, and the report says so. The one borrowed benchmark, twenty comments a week, is Richard's and is credited.

See a real report

Run on Wes Pomeroy's own account — 18 comments, real numbers, nothing tidied up. It grades that week a B and says exactly why.

Open the sample report

It is a plain HTML file with the data embedded. That is what the skill produces: something you double-click, not a dashboard you log into.

Get the skill

Free. No account, no API key, no paid tier, nothing to configure.

What you need

Claude Cowork, and a LinkedIn account you sign into once in the browser Claude uses. That is the whole setup.

How to install it

  1. Download the file below.
  2. Drop it into a Claude Cowork chat and press Save skill.
  3. Say “audit my LinkedIn comments” and it takes over from there.

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What it does with your data

It reads only your own activity page, in a browser you signed into yourself. It does not crawl anyone else's profile, does not post anything, and does not send your comments anywhere. Everything it writes stays in a folder on your machine.

The audit framework is Richard van der Blom's, from “Your Best Post This Week Is Not A Post”. The visual design is derived from his site. Built by Wes Pomeroy and given away from BooBridge. Not affiliated with LinkedIn.