Pendpost MCP server

pendpost

Agent-operated social media with a human approval gate.

pendpost is a free, open-source (MIT), local-first social media planner where an AI agent drafts and schedules posts across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Telegram, Discord, Mastodon, and Nostr, plus long-form blogs on WordPress and Ghost, with Reddit, Pinterest, TikTok, and Google Business Profile in beta, all behind a human approval gate you control. It is MCP-native: AI agents draft, lint, schedule, and queue your posts, but nothing goes live until a human approves it. It is built for developers, agencies, and technical solopreneurs who want agents to do the work without handing them the keys, and without getting accounts flagged.

Why pendpost is different (not just a scheduler)

Most "AI social" tools are schedulers with an agent bolted on. pendpost is the opposite. It is an operations layer designed around the agent-plus-human workflow, and these are the parts a scheduler does not give you:

• Human approval gate. Every post carries an approval state (draft, approved, rejected) and is fail-closed: a post with no approval will not publish. plancreatepost always creates a draft, and only approvepost or rejectpost can flip it. Nothing publishes until it's approved. By default that's you; auto-approve is owner-only and revocable.
• Anti-ban circuit breakers. A Meta error 368 (an action block) trips a breaker that halts the Meta lane and never auto-resumes, because 368 carries no machine-readable clear time. Health probes send zero Graph traffic while blocked. A cadence cap defers bursts rather than dropping them, and a lane pause kill switch is always available.
• Humanizer brand-lint. Captions are checked before publish against editable rules in rules.json. The humanizer layer flags English AI-writing tells. Errors block publish; warnings are advisory.
• Honest native scheduling. Where a platform supports it (Facebook scheduled posts, YouTube publishAt), pendpost uses native scheduling, so those posts fire even when your computer is off. Instagram, LinkedIn, and X have no native scheduling, so pendpost must be running to publish them; run it on an always-on host to cover those too. It stays honest about which cover/thumbnail mechanics actually apply per platform.
• Dual interface. A web dashboard and any MCP client drive the same contract. A parity test enforces that every capability ships on both faces.
• German and Swiss localization. Run the dashboard, digest, and notifications in English or real Swiss German (de-CH, with proper umlauts and 24-hour Swiss dates); set the language in Settings. See the localization docs.

Quickstart

One line, no setup:

npx pendpost
# then open http://127.0.0.1:8090

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.