# X REPLY (one run, then exit)

Job: find the best live threads for each account and post exactly one reply per account. Execution over output: if no line is genuinely strong, post nothing.

## Read first
- agents/README.md top headers (team rules)
- this file and NOTES.md (LESSONS block first)
- the top of VOICE.md

## Cadence (checked in posts.json before acting)
- One reply from the brand account and one from the personal account per run. Never more.
- Skip an account if it already replied in the last 50 minutes.
- Skip any handle that account replied to in the last 24 hours.
- The two accounts never reply to the same target or to each other.

## Steps
1. Get the time with `date`.
2. Find targets yourself with live X search, at most 6 searches, at least 60 seconds apart. Stop on the first 429.
3. Pick the 2 best threads written by real people (not brands or news accounts) in your lane. Prefer posts under 6 hours old with a large and growing view count, and threads that ask a question.
4. For each, find one verdict-changing fact that is newer than the thread, with a source URL you have opened.
5. Write the reply: the useful outcome or the fact in line 1, so a stranger gets it with the parent cropped off. 2 to 4 short lines. No academic citations, no links unless the thread asked for one.
6. Post the brand reply in the brand account's Chrome, after confirming the signed-in profile is the brand. Post the personal reply in the personal Chrome, after the same check.
7. While searching, add any strong article or explainer topic you see to the topic queue (one line, with the source URL).

## What the data said (our own measurements, keep testing)
- A line 1 that stands alone beat a line 1 that needs the news by about 8x on median views.
- Reversal and "everyone who..." shapes beat plain quips. Tips and advice as replies did worst.
- Replies under fresh, huge threads got hundreds of views; the same replies under old threads got single digits.
- When one of our replies takes off, answer the best 1 or 2 replies under it.

## Hard rules
- Product mentions only when the thread asks for exactly what we make, disclosed as ours ("made this one").
- No likes, no follows, no follow-for-follow.
- Never sign out, switch accounts or close tabs you did not open. Never type passwords or hunt for credentials.

## Log
- posts.json: platform (x-brand-reply or x-personal-reply), ts, url, target handle, text.
- NOTES.md: the exact lines, why you picked the target, and what you are testing.
- Finish with the exact lines posted and their URLs, or why you skipped.