Draft social posts from your project with Codex
- Shape a post alongside your code and launch work
- Review the exact accounts, copy and media before scheduling
- Check each account’s publishing status and link
Codex can draft an announcement from your release notes. Influence holds the post for review, schedules it after approval and shows whether each account published it.
How do I connect Codex to Influence?
In Influence Settings → Apps and automations, choose Codex, create a scoped key and follow the native MCP command. Codex reads INFLUENCE_MCP_TOKEN from its environment; keep the key out of prompts and source files.
Prepare the connection
Choose Codex in Influence Settings, create a scoped key and follow the MCP setup command using INFLUENCE_MCP_TOKEN.
Ask for a draft
Begin with a request for a draft, then inspect the account selection, text, and any attached image in Influence before taking action.
Use these release notes to draft a LinkedIn update for our company Page: CSV export now includes the selected date range. Use the approved screenshot from Influence Media. Explain the benefit without claiming features beyond the notes. Save a draft and show me its review link; do not publish or schedule it.
Posts for your connected accounts
A draft can include several accounts connected to Influence. Each account’s version is shown for review before you approve publishing or scheduling.
What can a Codex workflow do with Influence?
Codex can prepare drafts, request a publishing review and check the results through its Influence connection.
Connected accounts
Choose from accounts connected to your workspace. Influence checks current eligibility again before committing a post.
Editable drafts
Create, read, and revise a draft without losing its other destinations or history.
Images and videos, in order
Choose ready images and videos from Influence Media and arrange them in the order the destination supports. Review every attachment in a supported visual review or while signed in to Influence. Videos always require signed-in review. Complete TikTok Direct privacy and consent choices in the Influence editor.
Exact review
Review the accounts, text, image, settings, and timing together. A material change calls for a new review.
Scheduled publishing
Choose to publish or schedule after confirmation. Influence keeps the accepted job in its durable scheduler.
Destination status
Inspect each destination separately and open a published link only after Influence has verified it.
How do I publish a post prepared in Codex?
Choose the accounts, prepare the post and review it before approval.
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Choose accounts
Select the connected destinations for this post and inspect any account-specific requirements.
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Prepare the post
Choose ready images and videos from Influence Media and arrange them in the order the destination supports. Review every attachment in a supported visual review or while signed in to Influence. Videos always require signed-in review. Complete TikTok Direct privacy and consent choices in the Influence editor.
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Review and act
Confirm the exact content, destinations, and time. Then check the recorded result for each destination.
Prepare a draft about the release for my selected accounts, then show me exactly what would be scheduled for tomorrow at 9.
Prepare a useful release update
Give Codex the release note, company Page and approved screenshot. It can draft an update explaining what changed and who benefits. Review the saved text and image before approving publication, then check the result in Influence.
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What you provide
Use this release note to draft a LinkedIn update for our company Page: CSV export now includes the selected date range. Use the approved screenshot from Influence Media. Explain the benefit without adding features. Save a draft and show its review link; do not publish or schedule it.
Example drafts
Release note
CSV export now includes the selected date range.
LinkedIn draft
Your CSV export now follows the date range you choose. Select the period you need, then export those records for your report.
What to check before approving
Check the company Page, released feature and screenshot. Keep credentials in environment variables, outside prompts and release notes. Publishing needs a separate review and approval of the saved draft.
From draft to published post
Draft saved
Saved drafts stay editable until you choose to publish or schedule them.
Post reviewed
Review the accounts, text, media, settings and time. If any of these change, review the new version before approving.
Schedule saved
The approved post is waiting for its publishing time. Upcoming shows the saved schedule.
Publication checked
Activity shows the result for each account. If a result is unclear, check the existing post before sending again to avoid a duplicate.
See the steps in Influence
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1. Edit the text and check the preview
Edit the text beside the selected account’s preview. Saving a draft leaves it available for more changes.
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2. Review before approving
The review brings the account, post, date, time and time zone together. Confirm schedule saves this version for the chosen time.
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3. Find the scheduled post
The calendar shows when each post is due. Its status changes as publishing progresses; Activity shows the later delivery result.
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What is Codex?
Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent. It can draft an announcement from the project it is working on. Influence handles the connected social accounts, review, scheduling and delivery status.
Terminal and editor work
Codex can use the release notes and project files to draft a product announcement.
Task execution
Codex can work through development tasks. Publishing remains subject to the permissions and confirmation shown by Influence.
Review before publishing
A finished coding task does not publish its announcement. The post stays a draft until you review and approve it.
| Codex | Influence | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary work | Develop and shape the message | Review, schedule, and track the post |
| Account access | Only the access granted through a connection | Workspace membership and connected accounts |
| Final action | Prepare the post and request its review | Require approval and record delivery status |
How does codex exec fit into publishing?
codex exec can prepare social copy from your project in a script. Publishing through Influence still requires an authorized connection, a review of the post and your approval. Influence then delivers it at the approved time.
Prepare from a project
Turn release notes into a social draft that explains the product change.
Keep work separate
The announcement stays editable while development continues. You approve it separately when it is ready to publish.
Know the result
Scheduled means the post is waiting for delivery. Activity shows whether it was published after that time.
Turn the release notes in this project into a short social draft. Leave publishing for an exact review in Influence.
Explore a Claude Code workflow
Claude Code can also draft posts from project files. Its connection setup is separate; Influence provides the same post review, scheduling and delivery status.
What can I ask Codex to prepare?
With an authorized connection, Codex can prepare these drafts and request the review needed to publish them.
Announce a release
Draft a short launch post from the feature summary and show the selected accounts before scheduling.
Adapt a message
Write an account-appropriate version of one announcement while preserving its facts.
Check a schedule
Show the planned time and destinations for a scheduled post before changing it.
Review the result
Check each destination's recorded state and use only verified published links.
Which platforms can I choose?
The platforms below are available through Influence. The accounts connected to your workspace and their current permissions determine where you can post.
Codex and Influence FAQ
Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent. It can draft an announcement from your project, while Influence handles the connected accounts, review, scheduling and delivery status.
Open Influence Settings → Apps and automations, choose Codex and create a scoped key. Save it as INFLUENCE_MCP_TOKEN, run the shown codex mcp add command and reopen Codex with that variable available. The optional Influence skill explains the exact review workflow.
ChatGPT is a conversation assistant; Codex is a coding agent that works from development context. Influence shows the available connection guidance and permissions in Assistant connections for each supported host.
No assistant publishing mutation skips Influence's exact review and confirmation. Changes to accounts, copy, image, settings, or time require a fresh review. For video posts, always use the signed-in Influence visual review.
Influence keeps the approved schedule and delivers the post after Codex closes. Check the result for each account after the scheduled time.
Only accounts connected to your Influence workspace and selected for the post can be considered. Influence checks membership, connection state, scopes, and current eligibility before accepting the action.
To generate an image, use the full Influence connection and review the Influence IQ credit quote first. Upload your images and videos in Influence, then ask your assistant to use them. Review the attached media in Influence and approve the exact post before publishing or scheduling it.
Yes, before delivery starts and if no send is unresolved. Rescheduling or returning the post to draft requires review and approval. A post already sent cannot be changed this way.
Influence reports status for each destination. It shows a published link only after that link has been verified.
Related Influence guides for assistants
Assistant connections
Choose Codex in Influence Settings, create a scoped key and follow the MCP setup command using INFLUENCE_MCP_TOKEN.
ChatGPT
Connect ChatGPT and prepare social drafts in conversation.
Claude Code
Draft a product announcement from project files with Claude Code.
Cursor
Prepare a release post from your project in Cursor.
Claude
Draft and review social posts with Claude.
Hermes Agent
Connect Hermes Agent with a scoped key and MCP.
Get your next release post ready
Draft the announcement with Codex, review the text and selected accounts, then approve when it should publish.
