orallexa-marketing-agent 0.21.0

AI marketing agent for OSS founders — auto-generate and distribute project content across X, Reddit, LinkedIn, and more. v0.21.0 adds viral_patterns module — BuzzPlay 5-part recruit invite, negative-space positioning, wave-borrow narrative timing, casual_humanizer_zh, and lint_draft anti-AI-cringe linter.

Orallexa Marketing Agent

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Submit your AI/OSS project once. Get auto-generated, platform-specific marketing content. Distribute everywhere.

An open-source Python SDK + CLI for solo OSS founders who write code well but don't have time (or audience) to do marketing themselves.

Built by Xiaoyu (Alex) Ji — Navy veteran, MS CS @ Yeshiva University, building Orallexa and VibeXForge. Yes, it's named after Orallexa — that's the project that needed it most.

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🚀 Live in production at vibexforge.com

VibeXForge is the distribution amplifier built on top of this agent. Paste your AI project URL → 17 platform-native posts in 10 seconds. Every draft you see at vibexforge.com is generated by the same code that's public in this repo (the TypeScript port of marketing_agent/content/generator.py lives in vibex/lib/draft-generator.ts).

If you want a hosted UI / HITL editor / per-platform engagement scrape on top of this SDK, try VibeXForge. If you want the SDK alone for your own pipeline, keep reading — pip install orallexa-marketing-agent.

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Why this exists

You shipped a great AI/OSS project. 27 days later: 28 stars. Sound familiar?

The problem isn't the product. It's distribution. You're a builder, not a marketer. You have 3 GitHub followers and zero Twitter audience.

This is the tool I wish I had on day one of every OSS project: feed it a project description and it produces ready-to-post content tuned to each platform's voice — with a human-in-the-loop for the things that matter.

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Quickstart (30 seconds, no API keys)

git clone https://github.com/alex-jb/orallexa-marketing-agent.git
cd orallexa-marketing-agent
make install
make demo      # runs examples/generic_demo.py — no keys needed, all dry-run

You'll see X / Reddit / LinkedIn drafts for a fake project, generated locally via templates.

To enable LLM-quality content, add an Anthropic key to .env. To actually post, add platform keys. Both are optional — the SDK degrades gracefully.

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What it does

       Project metadata
              │
              ▼
    ┌────────────────┐
    │   Strategy     │  ← decides per-platform angle
    └────────────────┘
              │
              ▼
    ┌────────────────┐
    │   Content      │  ← Claude (or templates) writes it
    └────────────────┘
              │
    ┌─────────┼─────────┬──────────┐
    ▼         ▼         ▼          ▼
   X       Reddit    LinkedIn   (more)
    │         │         │
    └────┬────┴────┬────┘
         ▼         ▼
    Engagement events
         │
         ▼
   Feedback to strategy

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Status — v0.18.6 (PyPI live, full bandit feedback loop running)

408 tests passing · 77% coverage · CI green Python 3.11 / 3.12 · live on PyPI: pip install "orallexa-marketing-agent[mcp]"

Layer	What works today
Generator	HYBRID = Cloudflare Workers AI edge tier (Llama 3.3, ~$0.011/1M tokens) → Anthropic Sonnet 4.6 fallback. Falls through to deterministic templates if both fail (with warning log so silent failure is impossible). Prompt caching cuts cost ~80% on daily cron.
Quality gate	Heuristic + LLM critic (auto-rejects hype words, length overflow, hashtag spam). Hybrid retrieval dedup (60% dense + 40% BM25, +17pp MRR vs dense-alone) — never reposts a paraphrase. 3-layer X 280-char overflow defense (small hook + strict prompt + post-LLM retry/truncate).
Self-evolving stack	Variant bandit (Thompson Beta-conjugate over emoji/question/stat-led; pre-LLM hint selection so 1 LLM call per platform). Reflexion memory (cross-session critic patterns). ICPL preference store (5-shot exemplars from human edits). Voyager auto-skill promotion (top-quartile posts → skills/learned/*.md AND ~/.solo-founder-os/skills/<slug>.md for cross-agent reuse).
Proactive loop	Trends module scans GitHub / HN / Reddit (free, stdlib HTTP only) + VibeX top-of-feed source (your own platform's hot projects via Supabase Management API, $0). trends_to_drafts turns top N into platform-specific drafts. Per-(project, URL) cooldown (default 7d) prevents writing about the same hot story 4 days in a row.
Cost guards	MARKETING_AGENT_DAILY_BUDGET_USD soft cap (reads ~/.marketing-agent/usage.jsonl, prices via cost.PRICES, sums today UTC; skips proactive pass when over). Cross-provider usage logging into a single JSONL the cost-audit-agent reads.
Platforms — auto-publish	X (OAuth 1.0a + Bearer for reads) · Reddit (PRAW) · Bluesky (AT Protocol) · Mastodon (REST) · Threads (Meta Graph API, production April 2026)
Platforms — content-prep only	Dev.to (markdown export) · LinkedIn (API restricted) · 知乎 / 小红书 (manual paste, never auto — see Chinese platform strategy)
Workflow	HITL approval queue (Obsidian-friendly markdown). 6 GitHub Actions: daily.yml (commit-driven + trends drafts), publish.yml (push to approved/), scheduled.yml (hourly publish-due), test.yml, lint.yml, mcp-install-check.yml. Multi-project YAML config (one cron, N projects). PyPI Trusted Publishing via OIDC.
Cross-agent (SFOS interop)	Reflexions, skill promotions, and ICPL pairs are mirrored to ~/.orallexa-marketing-agent/*.jsonl and ~/.solo-founder-os/skills/ so solo-founder-os v0.19+ tools (sfos-evolver, sfos-retro, sfos-eval) see marketing-agent's data. Bandit + autopsy promoted to SFOS core for the rest of the stack.
Automation	Local launchd jobs: daily 06:30 EDT auto-pulls X engagement → updates bandit posterior. Sunday 09:00 runs sfos-retro cross-agent digest. PH-day reminder + trend-perf retro launchd plists ship as scripts.
Integrations	MCP server (marketing-agent-mcp for Claude Code / Desktop / Cursor / Zed) · Claude Skill (skills/marketing-voice/) · A2A agent card (agent_card.json) · VibeXForge event push · DSPy signatures framework
Distribution	PyPI (pip install orallexa-marketing-agent[mcp]) · Dockerfile + docker-compose · CI matrix Python 3.11/3.12 · pytest-cov 70% floor · Codecov

CLI (17 subcommands): generate · post · history · cost · queue · plan · schedule · ui · trends · trends-to-drafts · autopsy · skills · image · bandit · best-time · replies · engage

Roadmap (recent + upcoming):

• v0.10-0.12 — Streamlit UI · scheduled posting · ICPL · LiteLLM ensemble critic · Bluesky firehose · Cloudflare edge inference · Voyager skill promotion · A/B variants report · autopsy
• v0.13-0.14 — solo-founder-os AnthropicClient migration · cross-provider usage logging
• v0.15-0.16 — Trends module (GitHub/HN/Reddit) · Threads (Meta) auto-publish
• v0.17.x — trends_to_drafts proactive loop · per-project trend dedup · daily LLM budget cap · daily issue body breakdown
• v0.18.x — VibeX top-of-feed → TrendItem source ($0 Supabase) · cross-agent SFOS sinks (reflections / skills / preference) · bandit + autopsy promoted to solo-founder-os core · LLM-mode variant_key tagging · trends 280-char overflow 3-layer fix · daily engagement → bandit launchd · weekly sfos-retro launchd · PyPI live (Trusted Publishing OIDC)
• v0.19 — DSPy compilation against engagement history · MCP marketplace listing (post-PH) · cross-agent bandit data exchange
• v1.0 — public OSS launch · YC application

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Chinese platform strategy — 2026 reality

Per Q2 2026 anti-bot research, the agent deliberately does not auto-publish to 小红书 (Xiaohongshu) or 知乎 (Zhihu). Here's why and what we do instead.

Why no auto-post:

• 小红书's 阿瑞斯 risk system uses TLS fingerprinting + behavioral telemetry. Playwright + stealth defeats client-side fingerprints but not TLS or behavioral models. Detection is behavioral.
• New 小红书 accounts need 2-4 weeks of 养号 before they can publish without shadow-bans. Jan 2026 sweep: 37 matrix accounts banned in one operator.
• 小红书 requires self-disclosure of AI-assisted content (高级选项 → 内容类型声明). Failing to disclose triggers limit/ban.
• 知乎 has no public publishing API since 2020. Multi-account automation gets caught fast.
• Anthropic Computer Use works functionally but adds no detection advantage over Playwright (same browser surface) and costs ~$0.30-1/post in screenshot tokens.
• Official 小红书 开放平台 is whitelist-only (蒲公英 / 聚光 / 千帆 — brands, not indie devs).

What the agent DOES do for these platforms:

1. Generates platform-tuned content prep via marketing_agent.platforms.zhihu.dry_run_preview() and xiaohongshu.dry_run_preview() — formatted body + AI-disclosure reminder + algorithm-friendly hooks + length classifier (短答/中等/长答 for 知乎, 配图建议 for 小红书).
2. Reminds you of every 2026 platform rule before you paste manually.
3. Routes you to the right place: 知乎 to a target question (回答 ≫ 文章 for SEO), 小红书 to creator.xiaohongshu.com with the AI checkbox checked.

The 80/20 path for an indie OSS founder in 2026:

• One real warmed account per platform. Manual publish, 2-3x/week.
• 知乎 = highest leverage. Long-form 回答 with code blocks ranks on Baidu for years.
• Skip 微信视频号 (April 2026 banned all third-party automated publishing).
• For video content, use Bilibili (official open platform supports uploads with a real dev account).
• Reserve automation for read-only: trend scraping, comment monitoring, competitor 笔记 analysis.

Bottom line: Automate the writing pipeline, not the publish button. The agent is doing this because the 2026 ROI of automated Chinese-platform posting is negative once account-burn is factored.

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Layout

orallexa-marketing-agent/
├── marketing_agent/
│   ├── types.py                  Pydantic models — Project, Post, Platform, Engagement
│   ├── content/                  Generator (HYBRID = edge → Anthropic → template) + templates + images
│   ├── platforms/                9 adapters (X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Dev.to, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, 知乎, 小红书)
│   ├── llm/                      anthropic_compat shim · edge_provider (Cloudflare Workers AI)
│   ├── listeners/                Bluesky firehose (free real-time engagement)
│   ├── integrations/             VibeXForge event push
│   ├── orchestrator.py           High-level: project → posts → distribute
│   ├── supervisor.py             Drafter → Critic → Rewriter (Reflexion-lite)
│   ├── critic.py · ensemble_critic.py    Heuristic + LLM + multi-LLM majority vote
│   ├── reflexion_memory.py       Cross-session critic findings (+SFOS JSONL sink)
│   ├── preference.py             ICPL store (+SFOS JSONL mirror)
│   ├── skill_promoter.py         Voyager auto-skill (+SFOS shared dir mirror)
│   ├── bandit.py                 Thompson Beta-conjugate over X variants
│   ├── trends.py                 GitHub / HN / Reddit aggregator (stdlib HTTP)
│   ├── trends_to_drafts.py       Proactive loop: trends → multi-platform drafts
│   ├── trend_memory.py           Per-(project, URL) cooldown
│   ├── vibex_trends.py           Self-source from your platform's top-of-feed
│   ├── budget.py                 Daily LLM-spend soft cap
│   ├── autopsy.py                Engagement-vs-peers post-mortem
│   ├── multiproject.py           marketing-agent.yml + trends.yml parser
│   ├── memory.py · queue.py · threads.py · schedule.py    Core HITL plumbing
│   ├── cost.py · engagement.py · best_time.py             Analytics
│   ├── reply_suggester.py        Timeline scan → reply drafts → queue
│   ├── strategy.py               30/60/90-day LaunchPlan generator
│   ├── mcp_server.py             7-tool MCP server for Claude Code / Desktop
│   ├── web_ui.py                 Streamlit queue UI (`marketing-agent ui`)
│   ├── observability.py          Phoenix / OTel tracing (opt-in)
│   ├── dspy_signatures.py        4 typed Signatures, compile hook ready
│   └── cli.py                    argparse — 17 subcommands
├── examples/                     Offline demos (no API keys needed)
├── scripts/
│   ├── daily_post.py             Cron entry: commit-driven + trends drafts
│   ├── trend_perf_report.py      Compare trend-anchored vs commit-driven engagement
│   ├── reject_today_cron.sh      Bulk-reject pending drafts by date
│   ├── run_daily_engagement.sh   launchd: auto-pull X engagement + feed bandit
│   ├── run_ph_day_reminder.sh    launchd: PH-day manual-paste reminder
│   └── run_trend_perf_report.sh  launchd: weekly trend-perf retro
├── .github/workflows/            6 actions: daily / publish / scheduled / test / lint / mcp-install-check
├── docs/                         vibex-launch material · mcp-listing kit · future/saas-design
├── skills/marketing-voice/       Curated voice guide (loadable Claude Skill)
└── tests/                        408 tests passing, ~77% coverage, all offline

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Design principles

1. Tri-mode operation — works with no keys (template fallback), with Claude key (LLM generation), with platform keys (real posting). Never crash for missing keys.
2. Pydantic everywhere — no untyped dicts crossing module boundaries.
3. Adapters are protocols — same interface for every platform, easy to extend.
4. Reasonable defaults — make demo works offline, no setup.
5. No secrets in code — os.getenv exclusively, .env.example as template.

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Automation — HITL pipeline (GitHub Actions)

Two workflows form a draft → review → publish loop. The agent never posts to social media without your approval, but everything else is automatic.

        ┌─────────────────────┐
        │ daily.yml @14:00 UTC│  scrapes GitHub commits → drafts → queue/pending/
        └──────────┬──────────┘  → opens "📥 Daily drafts ready" Issue
                   │
                   ▼
        ┌─────────────────────┐
        │  YOU review         │  on github.com or after `git pull`
        │  • approve  →  git mv pending/X.md approved/X.md
        │  • reject   →  git mv pending/X.md rejected/X.md
        └──────────┬──────────┘
                   ▼
        ┌─────────────────────┐
        │ publish.yml         │  triggered by push to queue/approved/
        └──────────┬──────────┘  → posts to X / Reddit / Bluesky / etc.
                   │             → moves to queue/posted/, commits state back
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              real social media

One-time setup

1. Add secrets at https://github.com/<you>/<repo>/settings/secrets/actions:

   • ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (optional — falls back to template mode)
   • X_API_KEY, X_API_KEY_SECRET, X_ACCESS_TOKEN, X_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
   • REDDIT_*, BLUESKY_*, MASTODON_* (any platform you want enabled)

2. Trigger first run manually: Actions → "Daily draft generator (HITL)" → Run workflow.

3. Approve a draft to test publish.yml:

   git pull
   git mv queue/pending/<file>.md queue/approved/<file>.md
   git commit -m "approve: test" && git push
   

Skipping rules

daily_post.py skips when:

• No commits in the lookback window (default 24h)
• All commits are CI-only / docs-only / chore-only

Override with --force (testing only).

Targets

daily.yml defaults to alex-jb/orallexa-ai-trading-agent. Add new repos to REPO_PRESETS in scripts/daily_post.py, or pass --repo via workflow_dispatch.

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Future / paid offering — speculative

A managed-SaaS layer on top of marketing-agent (running inside VibeXForge) is fully designed but not yet built. See docs/future/saas-design.md for the architecture, pricing, and the explicit demand-signal threshold that would trigger Phase-1 work.

Today's promise stays the same: the OSS tool here is the whole product, and it always will be free. The SaaS doc exists so an interested founder / investor / collaborator can understand the scaling story without me having to retell it.

The MCP-server side of distribution (Anthropic marketplace + modelcontextprotocol/servers registry) is shipping post-PH 2026-05-04 — see docs/mcp-listing/ for the kit.

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License

MIT — use it, fork it, ship it.

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Hand-built by Alex while waiting for his first 100 GitHub stars. Hopefully you don't need to wait that long.

🧩 Part of the Solo Founder OS stack

A growing collection of MIT-licensed agents that share solo-founder-os as their base — cron, eval, reflexion, AnthropicClient, HITL queue, notifiers. Each agent is independently useful; together they cover the full one-person company workflow.

🌐 The whole stack is live in production at vibexforge.com.

Agent	What it does
solo-founder-os	The shared base lib (cron · eval · reflexion · skill library · DGM-lite). Every other agent depends on it.
build-quality-agent	Pre-push Claude diff reviewer + local build runner — catches CI-killing changes before they ship.
customer-discovery-agent	Reddit pain-point scraper + Claude clustering for product validation.
funnel-analytics-agent	Daily founder brief + real-time PH-day alerts across 9 sources.
vc-outreach-agent	Cold email drafter — investors (vc mode) or paying customers (customer mode, merged from customer-outreach in v0.9.0). HITL queue + SMTP sender.
cost-audit-agent	Monthly bill audit across 6 providers (Vercel / Anthropic / OpenPanel / HyperDX / Supabase / GitHub Actions) with dollar-tagged waste findings.
bilingual-content-sync-agent	EN ⇄ 中文 i18n diff + Claude translate + HITL apply. Batch API path @ 50% off.
customer-support-agent	Triage user messages → auto-draft replies → HITL queue. Closes the L5 customer-support layer.
payments-agent	Overdue-invoice reminder drafter. Stripe-shaped types + MockProvider fallback + hard money-safety prompt rules.

Each agent's own row is omitted from its README. Install whichever solve real problems for you — pip install <agent-name>.