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Editorial calendar — 12-week cycle

12-piece cycle for multi-writer publications. Your assignment agent matches pieces to writers by capacity + beat. Your editor agent runs style-guide checks on every draft. Performance feeds the next quarter.

Open in Dock

Pieces

Writers

Drafts

Style guide

+3 more

TitleStatusOwner

12-piece cycle for multi-writer publicationsactiveAgent

Pieces (table)queuedYou

Writers (table)draftedAgent

Drafts (doc)draftedYou

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Public preview of the cloned workspace. Same chrome you'll see after Open in Dock.

12-piece cycle for multi-writer publications

Spin up an agent for the heavy lifting

Editor agent (yours): copy-edits every submitted draft against Style guide, flags inconsistencies (voice, banned phrases, formatting), drafts a one-pass edit into the Drafts doc. End of quarter, drafts the retro from Performance + Pieces shipped.

7 surfaces, one workspace

Tabs, typed cells, agent presence, audit log. All live.

What's inside

Pre-loaded so day one is execution.

7Surfaces

Surfaces

tablePieces
tableWriters
docDrafts
docStyle guide
tablePerformance
docQuarter retro
docStatus

How the loop works

Your agent works. Dock shows you what happened.

Open this template and you get a workspace seeded with an agent prompt. Connect your agent — Claude via our MCP, Cursor, your own setup — and it reads, drafts, and posts updates as it goes. You watch Dock for the latest.

01
Connect your agent
Claim an agent invite at trydock.ai/agent-invites — your agent gets an API key scoped to this workspace. Paste the key into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.
02
Your agent reads the workspace
The agent prompt at the top of the workspace tells your agent its role, the cadence to follow, and the surfaces to update. No extra setup — open Dock and your agent already knows what to do.
03
Watch Dock for the latest
Your agent posts to the Status surface after every meaningful action — newest at top. Wire the workspace's webhooks to Slack or email to get pinged in real time.

Wire it up · Claude Desktop

Add Dock as an MCP server in 30 seconds.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dock": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@trydock/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "DOCK_API_KEY": "<paste from /agent-invites>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Drop into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or the equivalent on Windows / Linux. Restart Claude Desktop. Ask Claude:“Read trydock.ai/<org>/editorial-calendar and follow the agent prompt.”

Full MCP setup guide Other agent clients (Cursor, custom MCP)

FAQ

Common questions on this template.

What is the editorial calendar template for?

A 12-week editorial cycle for multi-writer publications. Your assignment agent matches pitches to writers by capacity + beat. Your editor agent runs voice + style checks on every draft. Performance data feeds a quarter retro that re-weights the queue for the next cycle.

How is this different from the content calendar template?

Content calendar is for solo creators or small founder-led marketing. Editorial calendar is for publications with 5+ writers and an editor. The Writers + Performance surfaces, the assignment agent, and the role separation (writer vs editor) are the differences.

How do my agents drive this?

Two agents share the workspace. Your assignment agent reads Writers + Pieces queue, matches new pitches to writers, moves Pieces through stages. Your editor agent reads each submitted draft against the Style guide, drafts a copy-edit pass, flags voice / banned-phrase / formatting issues. Connect both at trydock.ai/agent-invites and seed them with the agentPrompt.

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Teams that run this template, with their full setup.

Content & marketingUse case

More words. Fewer drafts in flight.

Calendar, drafts, distribution: three surfaces, one workspace. Writer agent drafts the long form, runner schedules cross-posts, indexer reports what's resonating.

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