Growth Engine

Growth Engine

Durable follower growth is content plus genuine presence in the right conversations, not automation X detects and suspends. This engine automates the HARD part (finding the best threads, drafting excellent replies) and keeps the action layer deliberately small: a few quality replies and light likes a day from @Agentik_os, gated and human-paced. The 10k followers goal is the north star of a bounded loop (R-LOOP), measured weekly, never a "spam until it works" loop.

Why not full auto like/comment/follow

Mass automated engagement is the number-one pattern X spam-detection nukes. The realistic outcome is a shadowban or suspension of the brand account, not growth. Bought/botted followers are dead weight. So this engine refuses mass follow/unfollow, auto-DM, and spray-reply. It does bounded, genuine, gated engagement only.

Pipeline

cron (daily) → [1] RADAR   find threads → last30days --search x (ScrapeCreators)
             → [2] DRAFT   genuine on-voice replies (claude, sonnet)
             → [3] GATE    adversarial anti-spam/anti-cringe (claude, opus) — default reject
             → [4] QUEUE   dedup vs seen, cap replies + likes
             → [5] EXECUTE (armed + valid session) Playwright → bounded replies + likes, human-paced
             → [6] REPORT  HTML in ~/.omega/artifacts + Telegram alert

Safety rails (non-negotiable)

• armed flag (~/.omega/state/growth-engine/armed) — kill-switch. Absent = drafts only.
• valid X session at ~/.omega/secrets/x-session.json (else nothing posts, alert fires).
• gate keep=true, fingerprint unseen, under EG_REPLIES_CAP (6) and EG_LIKES_CAP (15).
• human pacing (22-75s between actions), per-char typing delay, skip already-liked.
• no em/en dash, <=280 chars, no @-spam (enforced in gate + queue, R-NODASH).

Setup (one-time)

1. Bun runtime with Playwright: mkdir -p ~/.omega/lib/growth-engine && cd $_ && bun add playwright, then copy the executor: cp scripts/playwright-engage.mjs ~/.omega/lib/growth-engine/.
2. X session cookies (drives @Agentik_os): log into x.com, DevTools → Application → Cookies → copy auth_token and ct0, then: bash scripts/x-session-setup.sh <auth_token> <ct0> → writes ~/.omega/secrets/x-session.json.
3. Verify: bun ~/.omega/lib/growth-engine/playwright-engage.mjs --check → check_ok.

Run

bash scripts/engage-run.sh                 # full run (drafts unless armed + session)
EG_MOCK=1 bash scripts/engage-run.sh       # fixtures, never posts (smoke test)

Env: EG_REPLIES_CAP (6), EG_LIKES_CAP (15), EG_DAYS (2), EG_ANALYZE_MODEL (claude-sonnet-5), EG_GATE_MODEL (claude-opus-5), EG_TOPICS_FILE.

Arm / disarm

touch ~/.omega/state/growth-engine/armed    # bounded auto-engagement on
rm    ~/.omega/state/growth-engine/armed     # kill-switch: drafts only

Config & state

• config/engage-topics.txt — thread-finding queries.
• ~/.omega/state/growth-engine/seen.jsonl — engaged fingerprints (never engage twice).
• ~/.omega/state/growth-engine/runs/<date>/ — radar, queue, results, screenshots.
• ~/.omega/artifacts/growth-engine-<date>.html — daily report.

Requires

• SCRAPECREATORS_API_KEY in ~/.omega/secrets/ (thread finding).
• claude CLI, bun + Playwright + chromium, a valid X session (setup above).
• last30days checkout at ~/.omega/repos/last30days-skill/.