NOVAX/Switchboard

How-to guides

Features

Step-by-step walkthroughs with real Switchboard screenshots — from accounts to MCP.

Workspace

Multi-account workspace

Keep every social login in its own session and switch from one sidebar.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Add a social page

    Click + in the sidebar, pick a network, and sign in inside the embedded browser. Each page uses an isolated persist partition.

  2. 02

    Switch accounts

    Use the left avatar stack to jump between Instagram, Threads, X, and more without mixing cookies.

  3. 03

    Browse live

    The center pane is a real webview — feeds, notifications, and profiles work like the native site.

Captures

Your searchable post archive

On Instagram and other feeds, posts scroll away or disappear — and you often can’t find them again. Switchboard keeps the posts you’ve captured as a local archive you can search anytime.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Open Captures

    Select the Captures tab in the right panel while a supported feed is open.

  2. 02

    Keep what you scroll past

    Logged-in sessions can auto-capture as you browse; you can also trigger captures via MCP tools — so old posts aren’t lost when the platform buries them.

  3. 03

    Search your history

    Use embedding search to pull up past posts and replies across platforms and days — even when the original feed no longer surfaces them.

Hot draft

Study hot posts & draft

Learn from historical high-engagement posts and what’s hot recently, then draft for attention.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Collect signal

    Keep capturing feeds so Switchboard has recent and historical examples with engagement.

  2. 02

    Generate a post

    Open Generate post — the flow uses your writing skill plus similar high-signal feeds.

  3. 03

    Send to Pending

    Review the draft and drop it into the Pending queue before you release.

AI engagement posts

Use AI to generate high-engagement posts

Combine free cloud tokens, Main Brain, and hot-topic generation so drafts aim for likes, replies, and comments — then you approve before anything goes live.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Unlock free AI tokens

    Sign in under Settings → Account. Connected accounts get complimentary cloud AI quota for drafting with Main Brain.

  2. 02

    Feed the model with engagement

    Keep Captures filled with posts that already have likes, replies, and comments — local history plus optional crowd sync makes signals richer.

  3. 03

    Generate from a hot topic

    Open Generate post, pick the account, and run Generate from hot topic (or your own idea). AI drafts for attention using high-signal patterns.

  4. 04

    Review, then queue or schedule

    Edit the draft in the result dialog, send it to Pending, and schedule or release when you’re ready — draft-by-default keeps you in control.

Pending

Compose queue

Park drafts per account, edit inline, then schedule or release.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Open Pending

    Switch to the Pending tab to see drafts for the active account.

  2. 02

    Edit or delete

    Use the icon actions on a card to refine copy or remove a draft.

  3. 03

    Schedule or release

    Pick Schedule release for a datetime, or Release now to publish from the live session.

Schedule

Schedule a release

Set when a Pending draft should go out while Switchboard is open.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Choose a draft

    In Pending, click the calendar (Schedule release) icon on the post you want.

  2. 02

    Pick date & time

    Confirm the datetime dialog — defaults prefer spacing after your latest scheduled post.

  3. 03

    Let it release

    Keep the app open; due drafts are released automatically on a short interval.

Connect MCP

Connect AI agents

Point Cursor or other MCP clients at Switchboard for human-like automation.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Open Connect MCP

    Go to Settings → Connect MCP and choose Stdio (or Network while the GUI is open).

  2. 02

    Copy the snippet

    Select Cursor (or another client) and copy the mcp.json config with the --mcp flag.

  3. 03

    Restart the agent

    Save the config, restart Cursor, and keep the Switchboard GUI running for Instagram/Threads tools.

Account

NOVAX Cloud: crowd data, free tokens, Main Brain

Sign in to contribute feed data with engagement and comments, unlock a free AI token quota, and use Main Brain to draft high-performance posts.

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Steps

  1. 01

    Open Settings → Account

    Use the gear icon, then the Account tab to register or sign in to NOVAX Cloud.

  2. 02

    Share feeds into the crowd pool

    Opt in to sync captures (with engagement and comment context) to thenovax.com — or keep everything local. More diverse contributors make the cloud smarter.

  3. 03

    Spend free tokens with Main Brain

    Connected accounts get complimentary cloud AI quota. Ask Main Brain to draft posts tuned for the best engagement using crowd + your signals.