Film once, schedule a week of TikTok, Reels and Shorts
Film your clips in one sitting and upload them in Socialync. Your assistant matches each clip to a day, writes a caption for each platform, and schedules one clip a day to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube after you approve.
Works on the free plan. Connect an assistant first if you have not: setup guides.
The prompt
I just uploaded 5 clips to Socialync. Schedule one a day Monday to Friday at 6pm my time to TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. They are all about editing short videos on a phone. Show me everything before you schedule.
Swap in your own details. Example links and names are placeholders.
What the assistant does
Each step names the Socialync tool the assistant calls. A step with no tool is the assistant's own work or yours.
- 1
Upload the clips in Socialync
A chat cannot pass a video file to Socialync. Open socialync.io or the app, start a post, add the videos, wait until each one finishes uploading, then leave the page. Uploads that are not attached to a post are deleted about 12 hours later, so do this in the same sitting. A direct public link to a video file also works.
- 2
Check accounts
Your assistant picks the brand and confirms TikTok, Instagram and YouTube are connected and healthy. It leaves out any that are missing and says which.
list_profileslist_connections - 3
Check your allowance
It reads how many posts you have left this month, your daily limit per brand and how far ahead your plan can schedule. One clip posted to all three platforms is one post.
check_quota - 4
Find your clips
It lists the media in your Socialync library, matches the clips by file name and upload time, and asks you to confirm which clip goes on which day. It cannot watch a video, so it writes captions only from what you tell it about each clip.
list_media - 5
Write and check each post
TikTok gets a hook first. Instagram gets its hook in the first 125 characters. YouTube gets a title, which it requires, kept under 60 characters so it is not cut off. It validates each post with the clip, the title, the captions and the time.
validate_post - 6
Ask who can view the TikToks
It shows the week as numbered posts and asks one question for the whole batch: who can view the TikToks, Everyone, Friends, Followers or Only me. It also tells you that TikTok sounds cannot be added here, so the audio in each clip is what plays.
- 7
Schedule what you approved
It schedules each approved post with the exact settings it checked, or holds it as a draft and publishes on your yes in the same chat.
publish_scheduledschedule_post_draftapprove_draft - 8
Read the calendar back
It lists the scheduled posts and shows the week as a table: day, time, clip, platforms and status.
get_scheduled_posts
What you will be asked to confirm
- Which clip goes on which day, before it writes anything.
- Each post in full: the TikTok, Instagram and YouTube text, the YouTube title and the time in your timezone.
- Who can view the TikToks. The choice has to come from you. The assistant also tells you that by posting you agree to TikTok's Music Usage Confirmation.
- Which numbers to schedule, or "all".
Socialync tells your assistant to show you the exact post and wait for your yes in the chat before it publishes, schedules, replies or cancels anything. The publishing tools are marked as destructive, so clients that honor that also ask you to allow each call. You can switch on a confirmation dialog on the API Keys page that shows the exact post inside clients that support it. Socialync records who approved each post and when.
What you need
Plan
The free plan works. Free allows 5 posts a calendar month and scheduling 2 months ahead. Paid plans have unlimited posts and schedule 12 months ahead.
Connected accounts
TikTok, Instagram and YouTube connected in Socialync.
Assistants
Claude (claude.ai, Desktop and Code), ChatGPT, Grok, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI connect to Socialync. Any other assistant that supports MCP can too.
Also
- Your videos uploaded in Socialync within the last 12 hours, or a direct public link to each video file. A share page link, such as a Drive preview page, does not work.
- Your timezone, if your assistant does not know it.
Example result
Illustrative example with made-up posts and numbers. It does not come from a real account, and yours will use your own content.
Five clips scheduled for the week
| Day | Time | Clip | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 6:00 pm | clip-01.mp4 | TikTok, Instagram Reel, YouTube Short |
| Tue | 6:00 pm | clip-02.mp4 | TikTok, Instagram Reel, YouTube Short |
| Wed | 6:00 pm | clip-03.mp4 | TikTok, Instagram Reel, YouTube Short |
| Thu | 6:00 pm | clip-04.mp4 | TikTok, Instagram Reel, YouTube Short |
| Fri | 6:00 pm | clip-05.mp4 | TikTok, Instagram Reel, YouTube Short |
Limits that shape this recipe
- Video goes through the scheduled tools only. Immediate publishing takes text and images, because platforms need minutes to process video.
- One video per post, and a video post cannot also carry images.
- Instagram Trial Reels are an option if you ask for them. Sharing a trial with followers cannot be done through the API.
- Each profile takes at most 5 posts a day through an assistant on free and 10 on paid. One clip a day is far below that.
Connect your assistant first
You add Socialync once and sign in with your Socialync account. Then paste the prompt above. Setup guides:
Claude Code and other agents that load skills can use this recipe as a skill from our public repository.
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