# GrowSocialelion

> An open-source AI social media manager. It learns your niche, writes each post native to the network it is going to, generates the image or video to go with it, and measures what landed, across every brand you run. You set how much it does alone, and drive the whole loop from your own AI client. Self-host it, or let us run it.

GrowSocialelion is an open-source AI social media manager operated by Ellelion LLC (Wyoming, USA), licensed under the GNU AGPL-3.0. Its AI agents do the copywriting: they research your niche, then draft posts, threads, captions and replies in your voice, rewritten for whichever network each one is going to, and schedule them across the networks you connect. It generates the image or the video to go with a draft, from the draft itself, and it runs multiple brands from one account, each with its own voice, networks and limits (self-hosting is uncapped; hosted plans set the number). After a post goes out it joins your live platform metrics to its own audit log and reports what landed.

Autonomy is configurable: Human approval, Semi-autopilot, or Autopilot, set per brand with per-network and per-action overrides. New brands start in Human approval. The policy is enforced in the runtime rather than by instructing the model, and every mode keeps the audit log, hard daily caps, spend limits and a kill switch. Engagement honors all three modes today; the publish path still waits in the Inbox for a tap until its Autopilot lane ships, so GrowSocialelion does not publish unattended yet.

X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky, Discord, Slack, Telegram, Nostr, Dribbble, Lemmy, Tumblr, Misskey, Twitch, Kick, LINE, Wykop, Plurk, Dailymotion, PeerTube, Dev.to, Qiita, TabNews, Hatena Blog, Hashnode, Ghost and WordPress are live: connect, draft, schedule, publish. The other 18 networks in the catalog are on the roadmap at published, per-network statuses. It runs as a hosted service or self-hosted, and ships an MCP server so coding agents can drive it under the same autonomy policy and audit log.

## Product
- [Home](https://growsocialelion.com/): what the agent does, and how you set its autonomy.
- [Automated social media accounts](https://growsocialelion.com/automated-social-media-accounts): what automating an account you own does and does not mean, where the platform rules draw the line, and how much of the loop runs without you.
- [AI copywriting](https://growsocialelion.com/#copywriting): how the agents write hooks, per-network variants, brand voice, and replies.
- [How it proves itself](https://growsocialelion.com/#proof): the audit trail is written by code rather than the model, and conclusions are gated on data volume. The research loop is adapted from Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch (2026), applied to a social account instead of a model: the agent edits one line of its own writing playbook, drafts half its normal output that way, and keeps the edit only if it beat the unedited half. The gates on what it may conclude come from his earlier "A Recipe for Training Neural Networks" (2019): get a dumb baseline before drawing conclusions.
- [Browser extension](https://growsocialelion.com/extension): the reply lane for platforms that have no automation API.
- [Free tools](https://growsocialelion.com/tools): character counters for every network in the catalog, counting in the unit each network actually counts in (X weights links at 23 and emoji at 2; Bluesky counts graphemes). Browser-only, no sign-up. The table there marks every limit as sourced from a shipped adapter, sourced from the network’s documentation, or not yet verified.

## Writing
- [Which social platforms actually let software post and reply in 2026 (all 38, with sources)](https://growsocialelion.com/blog/which-social-platforms-allow-automation-2026): Of 38 platforms we checked, roughly 20 expose a clean API you can post through, but only two (X and GitHub) let you prefill a reply to a specific post. The rest of the reply gap is why a browser extension exists.
- [How to put social media on autopilot without getting your accounts banned](https://growsocialelion.com/blog/social-media-autopilot-without-getting-banned): The line every platform draws is the same: publish your own stuff through the official API, don't mass-reply to strangers, and keep a human in the loop on anything that looks like outreach.
- [The open-source social media tools worth self-hosting in 2026](https://growsocialelion.com/blog/open-source-social-media-tools-2026): Schedulers move a post you already wrote to a time you already picked. That's a solved problem, and several open-source tools do it well. The unsolved part is deciding what to post, which is a different kind of tool.

## About
- Operator: Ellelion LLC, Wyoming, USA.
- Source: https://github.com/ellelion
- Contact: info@ellelion.com
- Sibling products: https://ellelion.com (umbrella), https://skillselion.com