I let an AI agent run my company's social media unattended. Here is the full run, failures and all.

I run a small SaaS and I have been building an agent to handle our social media on a schedule with no human in the loop. Yesterday was its first real unattended run on live accounts. I want to share the actual result, including what broke, because most "look at my AI agent" posts only show the happy path. What it is supposed to do each run: - check when it last posted so it does not double post - pull a topic from our knowledge base and pick an angle and audience - write the caption and generate an image - publish to Facebook and Instagram - read and reply to new comments - pull the post analytics - save what it did to memory so it does not repeat itself - email me a report What actually happened on the first run: - It chose a solid topic on its own (early signs an email list is going stale) for the right audience. - Instagram failed on the first publish attempt. It retried and the post went live. - Our blog was not connected (it hit a 404), so it skipped that and used the knowledge base instead. - The analytics step failed on both platforms with Graph API metric errors. It logged them in the report and kept going instead of crashing. - The report emailer had an SMTP config gap, so it fell back to another email path and still delivered the report with the image attached. - Both posts ended up live and confirmed. It finished all ten steps. What I took away: the interesting part of agents is not the happy path, it is whether they degrade gracefully. This one hit four real problems and worked around all of them without me touching it. Happy to answer questions on the setup, the guardrails I gave it so it does not post nonsense, or how I deal with it publishing with no human review. For transparency, I am the co-founder of the platform I built it on, so ask away and I will keep it straight rather than pitch you.