ViralCat

Per-brand campaign rollup (brands are ViralCat's campaign unit): posted/scheduled/failed/draft counts, platforms used, next scheduled date, last posted date, and auto-post settings. Optionally scope to one brand_id.

WRITE (safe): cancel a queued post, or move it to a new slot. Omit scheduled_date to CANCEL (status -> cancelled; the publisher ignores it). Pass scheduled_date to RESCHEDULE to that time instead (ISO 8601, at least 15 minutes out; a draft keeps its draft status). Works on draft or scheduled posts (cancel or reschedule); also works on FAILED posts but cancel-only (omit scheduled_date) — this is the way to clear a dead failed-post backlog, since failed has no other exit. Posts already posting/posted/cancelled are immutable. Get post ids from content_queue, list_posts or diagnose_failures.

The forward content pipeline: drafts awaiting approval first, then scheduled posts in publish order. Use to review what is queued before it goes out, and to find draft ids for schedule_post.

WRITE (gated): create a brand (content profile) so create_draft and schedule_post have something to target. Every other write here needs a brand_id, so an agent had no way to set one up. Returns the brand_id and the Drive folder the publisher will read its media from (Viral-Cat/_Res/{name}/Vids). Publishes nothing and reaches no audience.

WRITE (safe): create a DRAFT post for a brand. Drafts are never picked up by the publisher, so nothing goes live; a human approves in the dashboard or promotes it later with schedule_post. scheduled_date is a proposed slot (default: 7 days out).

WRITE (gated): open a Google Drive upload session for media you hold locally, so a clip rendered on your own machine never has to be published publicly just so ViralCat can fetch it back. Returns an uploadUrl - PUT the bytes to it yourself (no auth header) and Drive stores the file; the response Location/id is the fileId for create_draft or schedule_post. When brand is given the file lands in the folder the generator actually reads for that media type: Viral-Cat/_Res/{brand}/Imgs for an image, Vids for a video, Music for audio. Without brand it defaults to the Viral-Cat folder. Video, image or audio up to 100MB. Publishes nothing and reaches no audience.

Group failed posts by platform + normalized failure reason: counts, date range, affected brands, a sample raw error, a recoverable flag (retry_failed_posts can re-queue it) and a concrete suggested fix per group. Answers "what is broken and why" in one call. Read-only.

Full content profile for one brand: description, taglines, hashtags, CTA/website URL, niche (category/subcategory), content type, target platforms, and active discount. Use this to write on-brand captions BEFORE calling create_draft or schedule_post. Read-only; returns no secrets.

High-level snapshot of the posting pipeline: active brand count, a status breakdown (how many scheduled/posted/failed/etc.), a per-platform breakdown, how many posts are due in the next 7 days, and the next scheduled date. Use for 'how's the pipeline?' style questions.

List brands (content profiles), newest first, with per-brand post counts (posted/scheduled) and the next scheduled date. Use to see which brands exist and how active each is. Excludes archived brands. Returns `total` (all active brands) next to `count` (rows returned): when `truncated` is true the roster was cut off by `limit`, so raise it (max 50) before concluding a brand does not exist.

List connected platform accounts (channels) and their health: platform, account username, connected flag, posting-enabled flag, and token expiry. Use to check which platforms are wired up and whether any connection has expired. Never returns access or refresh tokens.

List posts across all platforms, newest scheduled first. Each row is one publication on one platform. Filter by status (draft|scheduled|posting|posted|failed|cancelled) and/or platform (youtube|tiktok|instagram|...). Returns caption, brand name, permalink, error message when present, and publishWarning for posts that succeeded with an anomaly (e.g. published without media).

Publish-outcome metrics over a rolling window (default 30 days): posted/failed/cancelled totals, success rate, per-platform breakdown, and the most recent published posts with permalinks plus their latest stored engagement snapshot (views/likes/comments/shares; available for youtube/tiktok/twitter/threads). Snapshots are stored, not live: call refresh_post_metrics first if the numbers must be current. Optionally scope by brand_id and/or platform.

READ-ONLY: validate a post BEFORE it is scheduled or published, so a problem is caught up front instead of discovered as a failure afterwards. Checks the exact things that produced the failed-post backlog: incompatible media for the platform (e.g. video to Pinterest), a disconnected or unrefreshable platform token (LinkedIn has no refresh token on this API tier and needs a manual browser reconnect roughly every 60 days — that's an expected state, not a bug), Facebook posting to an account with no Page (impossible via the Graph API), content referencing an already-passed date/season/promo code, and X/Twitter free-tier monthly write-cap headroom. Pass post_id to check one existing post; omit it to scan the forward queue (draft + scheduled, soonest first) and return only posts that have at least one issue.

WRITE (safe): attempt a server-side token refresh for a platform whose access token has lapsed, updating the stored connection's token/expiry. Works without a browser when a refresh token is on file (twitter/youtube/google_drive self-heal this way); returns needsManualReauth + a dashboard link when the platform genuinely requires a manual browser reconnect (e.g. threads). Cannot publish or touch content, only refreshes credentials; safe to retry. Never exposes tokens.

WRITE (gated): fetch current engagement (views/likes/comments/shares) for already-published posts and store today's snapshot, then read it back with post_performance. This is the only way to update the numbers without opening the dashboard Stats tab. Supported platforms: youtube, tiktok, twitter, threads; LinkedIn and the rest expose no engagement API. A 60-minute cooldown applies per account and protects X's free-tier read quota, so a call inside it returns skipped:true and changes nothing. Publishes nothing and reaches no audience.

WRITE (gated): move ONE post to a new future slot (ISO 8601, at least 15 minutes out). Unlike cancel_post this also accepts FAILED posts: a failed post is re-queued (status -> scheduled, error cleared). Draft and scheduled posts keep their status. Refuses posts that would structurally fail again (archived brand, incompatible media, Facebook with no Page).

WRITE (gated): bulk re-queue recoverable failed posts (default reason classes: token_expired, missed_window, platform_transient_error, drive_media_missing). dry_run DEFAULTS TO TRUE and only returns the plan; pass dry_run=false to actually reschedule. Retries are staggered per platform (spacing_minutes apart) and capped at limit, so a bulk retry cannot dogpile a platform API. Posts that would structurally fail again (archived brand, incompatible media, Facebook with no Page) are skipped with the reason. Use diagnose_failures first to see what is recoverable.

WRITE (gated): queue a post for FUTURE publishing, at least 15 minutes out (immediate posting is not available over MCP). Either pass post_id to promote an existing draft, or brand_id + platform to create a new scheduled post. The publishing cron sends it at the scheduled time.

WRITE (gated): correct a brand's content profile: description, taglines, hashtags, CTA and website links, content type, and the auto-post switch. This is the repair path for a brand carrying wrong copy, which otherwise makes every caption for it wrong, and the off switch for a brand whose generator is posting against your content rules. Only the fields you pass change; the rest keep their stored values. Cannot rename a brand (the name also names its Drive media folder) and cannot touch posting frequency/day or discount settings. Queues nothing and publishes nothing itself.

WRITE (gated): fetch a public media URL and store it in the connected Google Drive, returning the Drive fileId to pass to create_draft or schedule_post. This uploads to YOUR OWN Drive; it publishes nothing and reaches no audience. Accepts video, image or audio up to 100MB. With brand, files land in the folder the generator actually reads for that media type: Viral-Cat/_Res/{brand}/Imgs for an image, Vids for a video, Music for audio. Without brand it defaults to the Viral-Cat folder, and folder_id overrides both.