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

Setting	Value
Reposts per source	Up to 3
Reshares per source	Up to 3
Total recycles per source	Up to 6
Minimum offset	1 hour
Maximum offset	~1 year
Far-out threshold (warning)	30 days

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.
• Destination Presets — recycles inherit the source's preset channels; a single recycle entry can fan out to every channel in the preset.
• 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.

Remix wording each cycle

When you reshare the same post multiple times, Aidelly can automatically rewrite the caption for each cycle so it feels fresh to your followers — same message and links, but new wording each time.

Enable remix on Auto-Recycle

1. In the composer or calendar modal, expand the Auto-recycle this post section.
2. Below the recycle chips, toggle "Remix wording each cycle" on (it defaults to on).
3. Add your reshares as normal. Each one will get a remixed caption.

How remix works

• At resolve time — when each recycle publishes, Aidelly uses AI to rewrite the caption. Same links, media, and meaning; different wording.
• Diverse phrasing — the AI prompt includes previously-remixed captions from the same source (up to 3 reshares), so each cycle sounds different.
• Fallback on failure — if AI generation fails (model error, insufficient credits), the original caption publishes instead. You'll see a warning; the post still ships on time.
• Uses AI credits — each remix costs credits via the repurpose system. Check your credit balance in Account → Plan & billing.

Turn off remix for a specific post

1. In the composer or calendar modal, open Auto-recycle this post.
2. Toggle "Remix wording each cycle" off.
3. All reshares will be verbatim copies of the source caption.

Common remix scenarios

• X reshares — X rejects duplicate posts, so remix helps your reshares actually publish instead of failing at dispatch.
• Instagram carousel — same carousel, different caption hooks per cycle so the story feels new.
• LinkedIn thought leadership — remix keeps the core message fresh for different follower segments.

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
• Destination Presets — how recycles inherit preset channels
• Automation Queues — slot-aware recycling
• Content Calendar — where every recycle becomes visible