# How we draft social posts from our content calendar The social-scheduler agent we run on Kortix — a daily agent that reads our Notion content calendar, drafts platform-appropriate posts for upcoming content, launches, and announcements, and holds them in Slack with the scheduled date for a human to approve and publish. Canonical page: https://kortix.com/use-cases/social-scheduler Our content calendar lives in Notion: what's shipping, what's launching, what we're announcing, and when. Turning each of those rows into an actual LinkedIn post, a tweet, and an Instagram caption is a separate manual step that happens later, usually the day of, sometimes not at all. The calendar says what should go out; nobody had turned it into copy yet. We run a social-scheduler agent on Kortix that closes that gap every day. It reads the content calendar in Notion, drafts platform-appropriate posts for anything launching or publishing soon, and holds every draft in our marketing Slack channel with its scheduled date. It never posts anywhere itself — a person reviews, edits, and publishes. - **Team:** Kortix - **Runs on:** Daily cron - **Connected systems:** Notion · Slack - **Mode:** Fresh session · draft-only, human publishes ## The problem A content calendar tells you *what* and *when*, not the actual words that go on each platform. Writing the LinkedIn version, the X version, and the Instagram caption for every launch and announcement is a distinct task that someone has to remember to do, usually under time pressure right before the scheduled date. The common fixes don't hold up. A scheduling tool queues posts, but someone still has to write them first. A shared doc of "posts to write" depends on someone checking it daily and drafting ahead of the date, not the day of. And because drafting keeps sliding to "later," launches and announcements regularly go out with no social post at all, or one written in five minutes right before it's needed. ## What we built On Kortix, a daily cron triggers an agent. It spawns a fresh session that reads our Notion content calendar for anything launching, publishing, or being announced in the days just ahead, drafts a platform-appropriate post for each one — LinkedIn, X, and Instagram get different lengths, tone, and structure — and posts the batch to our marketing Slack channel, each draft labeled with its scheduled date. Nothing is scheduled or published automatically; the drafts sit in Slack until someone approves them. ## How it works ### Run on a daily cron, fresh each time A **cron trigger** fires the agent once a day. Each firing spawns a fresh **session** in its own sandbox — there's no memory to carry over, so the agent re-reads the calendar's current state every time rather than trusting what it drafted yesterday. ### Give the agent the platform playbook How each platform's copy should read — LinkedIn's longer, more explanatory tone; X's tight, single-idea framing; Instagram's caption-plus-hashtags structure — lives as a **skill** that travels with the agent. When we change our voice or add a platform, we edit the skill and every future draft follows it. ### Connect the calendar and the approval channel Through a scoped **connector**, brokered server-side so no raw token reaches the model, the agent reads the Notion content calendar for entries landing within the lookahead window. Through a **channel**, it posts the drafted batch to Slack. Neither connection touches any social platform. ### Set the guardrails The agent can read the calendar and write to one Slack channel. It has no connector to LinkedIn, X, Instagram, or any other social account, so there is no path from this agent to a live post — the guardrail isn't a rule the agent follows, it's a permission it was never given. ### Hold every draft for approval Each day's Slack post lists the upcoming calendar items with a drafted post per platform and the scheduled date attached. Someone on the team reviews each draft, edits it if needed, and schedules or publishes it through whatever tool they already use. The agent's job ends at the draft. > **The pattern** > A daily **cron** spawns a fresh session that reads the **Notion** content > calendar through a scoped connector, drafts platform-specific copy using a > **skill**, and posts the batch to **Slack** for approval. No connector to > any social account exists, so nothing can go out without a human. ## Guardrails The agent drafts copy that will eventually represent the company publicly, so what it can do on its own is narrow: - **No social connectors, period.** The agent has no credential and no connector to LinkedIn, X, Instagram, or any other platform. Publishing isn't blocked by a rule — the capability doesn't exist in this agent's scope. - **Draft only.** The only output that is written back out is a Slack message containing drafts. Nothing is scheduled, queued, or posted anywhere. - **Isolation.** Every run happens in its own isolated sandbox, torn down when the run ends. - **Scoped secrets.** The Notion connector is brokered server-side; no raw token enters the sandbox at all. - **Everything is code.** The platform playbook, the lookahead window, and the agent's permissions are files in the repo, changed through a reviewed **change request** rather than a dashboard setting. ## The outcome - **Every day:** Upcoming calendar items turned into drafted copy ahead of time - **0 posts:** Published automatically — every draft waits for a human - **3 platforms:** LinkedIn, X, and Instagram drafted in one pass Launches and announcements that used to get a rushed post the day of, or none at all, now show up in Slack days ahead with a draft ready for each platform. The agent turns the calendar into copy; the team still decides what actually goes out.