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Let an AI assistant draft and schedule your posts with Refract MCP

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Refract's MCP lets an AI assistant work with your workspace for you. You can ask your assistant to draft a post and schedule it, without writing every line yourself in the app.

What the MCP does

MCP is the connection between your AI assistant and Refract. Once it is connected, the assistant can draft posts and schedule them. You describe what you want in plain language, and the assistant handles the drafting inside your workspace.

The important part is that nothing goes out on its own. Drafts wait for your approval, so you stay in charge of what gets published.

Before you start

You need a Refract workspace and an AI assistant that supports MCP. It also helps to have a rough idea of the post you want, including the topic, the tone, and when you would like it to go out.

Step by step

  1. Connect your AI assistant to Refract's MCP.
  2. Describe the post you want in a chat.
  3. Review the draft the assistant creates.
  4. Approve it, or ask for changes.
  5. Ask the assistant to schedule it once you are happy with the wording.

A request can be short and plain. For example, you might type something like this:

Draft a friendly post about our new help guide and schedule it for later this week. Ask me before anything goes live.
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The more specific you are about the goal, the closer the first draft will be to what you had in mind. You can always follow up with a new message to adjust the tone or length.

Ask first mode

Ask first mode is the setting that keeps you in the loop. The assistant prepares the work, and you decide what happens next. This is the mode to use if you want to read every draft before it moves forward.

It also gives you a simple habit to build. Read each draft, correct anything that does not sound like you, and approve only the posts you would be happy to publish yourself.

Keeping control

Treat the assistant like a capable helper rather than an autopilot. Check names, links, and details before you approve, since you know your audience better than any tool does.

That is the whole workflow. Connect once, describe what you want, and review the results. The assistant does the repetitive drafting, and you keep the final say over every post.

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