Publishing scheduled social posts
Drafting and scheduling can be separated so publication remains an explicit human-approved action. Expected disposition: Redesign.
Task boundary
Publishing scheduled social posts is assessed as a specific task and workflow, not as a general endorsement of AI for the surrounding job. Drafting and scheduling can be separated so publication remains an explicit human-approved action.
Assumptions
- The original workflow combines drafting, scheduling, and publication.
- A post changes public state and can create brand, factual, policy, or timing harm.
- Per-post approval tied to the exact final payload is not yet enforced.
Decision
- Disposition: Redesign
- Pattern: None for the task as currently framed
- Inherent risk: medium
Rules that drive the decision
- Consequential external action without exact preview and approval blocks the workflow as framed.
- Drafting does not require publication permission, so preparation and execution should be separated.
- FTC endorsement guidance is relevant to U.S.-targeted promotional posts; other jurisdictions and non-promotional posts require their own policy review.
Why alternatives were rejected
- Direct bounded action without approval changes external state.
- A broad agent can post outside the approved campaign.
Next safe step
- Remove publishing credentials from the drafting step and produce a channel-specific preview only.
- Validate links, accounts, timing, mandatory language, and claims, then require a person to approve the exact final post.
- Assess the changed draft-and-preview task again before connecting any scheduler or publishing tool.
Reassess the changed task
- Reassess the separated workflow with its account allow-list, approval binding, logging, and cancellation behavior.
- Stop again if approval is sampled, inferred, reusable across posts, or detached from the executed payload.