Auto-Recycle

What Auto-Recycle is for

Auto-Recycle keeps evergreen content circulating without you opening the calendar every week. You decide the recycle plan at compose time, attach it to the source post, and Aidelly auto-schedules each repost and reshare at the configured offsets the moment the source publishes.

• Repost — the platform's native re-broadcast (where supported).
• Reshare — a fresh copy of the post published as a new entry.

Useful when the same post deserves multiple impressions across a week, month, or quarter — and you don't want to babysit it.

Where it lives

Three surfaces, identical UI:

1. The post composer at /post — the main entry point.
2. The calendar schedule modal when editing a scheduled post.
3. The chat publish-confirm dock when an agent is about to publish on your behalf.

All three render the same RecycleSchedulePicker component, so behavior is identical everywhere.

Limits

The 3-per-kind cap matches the existing MAX_PENDING_RESHARES_PER_SOURCE and is enforced at the schema layer — runaway rules are not possible.

Step 1 — Open the Auto-recycle panel

In any of the three surfaces, below the schedule picker you'll see a collapsible "Auto-recycle this post" section. Click to expand.

It has two chip rows:

• Repost — one chip per scheduled repost. Disabled on platforms where the platform itself doesn't support native repost.
• Reshare — one chip per scheduled reshare. Available on every platform Aidelly publishes to.

Step 2 — Add a recycle

Click the + chip on either row. A new entry appears with a default offset (Reshare: +1w; Repost: +1d). The chip shows the offset label, e.g. +3d, +2w, +1mo.

Step 3 — Pick an offset

Each entry has a custom-offset input. Tap the chip to open the offset editor:

• Pick a unit: h (hours), d (days), w (weeks), mo (months).
• Type a count. The chip label updates live (e.g. +3w).
• If the resulting absolute time is more than 30 days out, the entry shows a "far-out" warning — useful to know but not blocking.

Step 4 — Remove or reorder

• Remove — click the × next to a chip.
• Reorder — recycles are sorted by offset automatically; you don't need to drag.

Step 5 — Ship it

Publish or schedule the source post like normal. The recycle entries persist with the source. The moment the source publishes, Aidelly auto-schedules each recycle at source_published_at + offset.

What appears on the calendar

Each recycle becomes its own scheduled_posts row linked to the source via source_post_id. On the calendar:

• The recycle shows up at its computed time with a small recycle badge (🔁 for reshare, ↻ for repost).
• The badge links back to the source post.
• Cancel or edit a recycle the same way you would any scheduled post.

How Auto-Recycle interacts with other Aidelly features

• Posting Cooldowns — a recycle that would land during a cooldown is nudged to the next valid slot.
• Crosspost Routes — recycles inherit the source's route fanout; a single recycle entry can fan out to every destination.
• Automation Queues — when a recycle hits a per-account queue, it enters the queue tail.
• Calendar — recycle badges + drag-to-reschedule per recycle row.
• Warning Rules — alerts on stale recycles you might want to clean up.

Editing after publish

Recycle entries are first-class scheduled_posts rows, so you can:

• Cancel a single recycle from its row on the calendar.
• Add new recycles from the post detail drawer → "Auto-recycle" section after the source has published.
• Edit a recycle's caption or media independently of the source.

Troubleshooting

• Repost chip greyed out — the platform you picked doesn't support native repost. Use Reshare instead.
• "Far-out" warning won't go away — the offset is > 30 days. It's just an FYI; you can keep it.
• Recycle landed in a quiet window — Aidelly nudges to the next valid slot. Check the post's audit trail for the nudge event.

Related guides

• Posting Cooldowns — throttles that apply to recycles
• Crosspost Routes — how recycles interact with fanout
• Automation Queues — slot-aware recycling
• Content Calendar — where every recycle becomes visible