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Review one-time proposals from your agent and follow today's runs in one place.

Your Inbox is where you review what your agent proposes and watch what it's doing. Suggestions waiting on you sit at the top, and today's runs sit below them on a single timeline.

Suggestions are one-time proposals your agent generates for work that could help your publication. Each one waits for you to choose its action or dismiss it.

On paid plans, your agent refreshes these suggestions once a day. On the free plan, you can still request fresh suggestions from the Inbox or ask your agent in chat.

What the agent suggests

Suggestions can include:

  • Drafts for posts or newsletters
  • Edits to existing drafts
  • Titles, descriptions, and cover ideas
  • Follow-ups based on your archive and goals
  • Distribution ideas for X
  • Updates to your agent's voice or publication context

The mix follows your voice and goals. Change those settings when you want the queue to focus on different work.

Choosing an action

The primary button describes the outcome instead of asking for a generic approval:

  • Create draft saves a private draft.
  • Apply edit updates a draft.
  • Post on X publishes the proposed text to X.
  • Publish post makes a post public.
  • Send email sends the proposed email.
  • Run task handles another one-time task.

You can also Dismiss a suggestion or open it in chat to ask for changes.

When the inbox has piled up, Dismiss all clears every pending suggestion at once. Paid plans refresh the queue each day, and any writer can request fresh suggestions, so nothing is lost for good.

For drafts, you can edit the piece in the editor before it goes anywhere. Your choice applies only to that suggestion, as covered in Approvals.

Not every suggestion carries a draft yet. Some are an idea: your agent proposes the piece and the angle, then writes it when you choose Create draft. Those open as the plan rather than an editor, because there's nothing written to edit until you ask for it. The plan is what your agent will write from, so it's on screen before you choose: the working title, the angle, the outline, and any sources it gathered. It's there to read, not to edit; if it's not the piece you want, say so in chat and your agent will propose a different one.

A suggestion points at a saved draft rather than holding its own copy. Edit that draft, in chat or in the panel, and every suggestion for the piece shows the change. The same piece can be proposed more than once, so a thread you skipped in March can come back in June unchanged. While one of those suggestions is scheduled or being sent, the draft is locked, because those exact words are what goes out; your agent can't rewrite it either. Once it has gone out (or if it failed), the draft is yours to edit again.

Creating a draft is not a publishing permission. The draft remains private until you choose a public action later. Choosing any suggestion applies only once and never authorizes a later suggestion.

See Approvals for the distinction between a one-time choice and an enabled automation.

Today's runs

Below your suggestions, the Inbox shows everything happening today on one chronological line:

  • Scheduled automation fires expected today, drawn with a dashed line until they run
  • Event automation runs after their matching publication event starts them
  • Scheduled tasks and posts due today
  • Suggestions you approved, from the moment you approved them

Each row carries a small status dot: scheduled, queued, running, completed, failed, or skipped. Rows that wrote to a chat open that conversation, so you can read what the agent actually did.

Approving a suggestion moves it out of the list at the top and onto this timeline, where its status updates as the work runs. You don't have to go looking for it.

Schedule it for later

Instead of choosing an action now, pick Schedule and set a date and time. You can also drag a suggestion down onto today's timeline to schedule it for that moment. Either way it leaves the list at the top and waits on the Schedule calendar until it runs.

You can also just say when in chat: "post this at 3pm tomorrow." Your agent shows you the draft and schedules it in one step.

For a text-only X post or thread, the text you scheduled is the text that posts. Nothing rewrites it, and you aren't asked to approve it again. That's the point of scheduling: you decide once, and the words you saw are the words your readers see. A scheduled thread posts in order, each tweet replying to the one before it.

A few limits:

  • You can schedule up to 30 days ahead.
  • Posts with images and quote posts can't be scheduled yet. Your agent drafts those as normal suggestions instead.
  • A scheduled X post still counts against X's own limits. If X refuses it, the suggestion comes back to your Inbox.

To change the time, tell your agent ("actually make it 5pm") or open the block on the Schedule calendar and pick a new one. Cancel it to send the suggestion back to your Inbox.

To change the words, cancel the schedule first. A scheduled draft is locked while it waits, for you and for your agent alike. Cancelling returns it to your Inbox, where you can edit it and schedule it again.

If a scheduled item doesn't run (your X account was disconnected, X rate-limited it, or your plan ran out of credits) you get a notification and the suggestion returns with what went wrong, so nothing fails quietly. On the timeline that run reads as failed. From there you can pick a new time with Try again later, or dismiss it.

When a send can't be confirmed

Refusals like the ones above are clear: nothing went out, and trying again is safe. Occasionally a delivery is interrupted mid-send instead, and nobody can tell whether it landed. Rather than guess, your agent stops.

The suggestion comes back saying the send wasn't confirmed, and it won't be sent a second time, even if you approve or reschedule it. Check X or your sent emails: if it really didn't go out, post it again as a new task, or ask your agent in chat to send the email. Sending your readers the same thing twice is worth a little friction to avoid.

This only applies to the exact delivery that was interrupted. Sending the same piece again later, on purpose, always works.

After a suggestion runs

The run shows its outcome on today's timeline, and the result appears on the suggestion. Drafts open in the editor for review. When the work updates agent settings, the result links to Settings → Agent so you can inspect what was saved.

Making suggestions better

  • Tune your voice. Update your brand voice in Settings → Agent when drafts miss your tone.
  • Sharpen your goals. Specific goals produce a more focused queue.
  • Explain changes in chat. Tell the agent what was off and ask it to remember useful guidance.
  • Dismiss work you don't want. A dismissal is feedback, not a standing rule.

From a suggestion to an automation

If a useful job should repeat, create an automation. The automation has its own name, trigger and timing, capabilities, and enabled state. Public actions are confirmed as part of enabling that automation, not by approving a previous suggestion.

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