feat: grow new accounts by commenting on active threads
A new Reddit account cannot start chats until Reddit considers it established, and nothing in the app previously did anything about that. Account growth posts a small number of AI-written comments per day on active threads in an operator-chosen list of communities, per account, so the history that lifts the hold actually accumulates. Growth is account-scoped rather than part of the shared outreach funnel: karma, comment history and pacing all belong to one identity. It runs as the lowest-priority work in the account runtime, after inbound replies, and deliberately keeps running while an account is held out of outbound messaging. Comments publish without operator review, so the guards are the feature: - Both screening stages fail closed. A deterministic gate rejects links, contact solicitation, user tags, filler and any text that reveals the generator; the classifier must actively approve with confidence, and an outage stalls growth rather than publishing unreviewed text. - Thread text reaches the model only as fenced untrusted data, since Reddit posts do contain instructions aimed at automated readers. - The daily allowance is adaptive, not configured: it starts at two per day and rises only while comments survive and earn upvotes. - Posted comments are swept at ~15m/2h/24h with one batched info.json request, plus a single signed-out probe that detects a comment the public cannot see. Two consecutive removals, an invisible comment, or a captcha challenge pauses the account until an operator clears it. A failed probe never pauses anything. - One comment per thread across every owned account, enforced by a unique index, because two of our accounts on one post is the easiest pattern to correlate. - A comment interrupted mid-post is abandoned, never retried: we cannot know whether the write landed and a duplicate cannot be withdrawn. - Reddit's refusals are authoritative — a ban disables that community for that account, a throttle backs off at the scope Reddit named, and a signed-out response invalidates the session. Comments are submitted through the account's own browser session against the old.reddit form endpoint, which returns machine-readable error codes and needs no credentials beyond the cookies already imported. API-first: /api/growth exposes state, settings, the community list and pause/resume, all verified against a local instance. Route responses are parsed with the shared contracts in tests so the server-side mirror cannot drift from what the dashboard expects. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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import { isSafeOutboundMessage } from './outbound-message-safety.js';
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export type GrowthCommentVerdict =
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| { safe: true }
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| { safe: false; reason: string };
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export const MIN_GROWTH_COMMENT_LENGTH = 20;
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export const MAX_GROWTH_COMMENT_LENGTH = 600;
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/** Any link at all. A growth comment has no legitimate reason to carry one. */
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const LINK_PATTERNS: readonly RegExp[] = [
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/https?:\/\//i,
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/\bwww\.[a-z0-9-]+\.[a-z]{2,}/i,
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/\[[^\]]*\]\([^)]*\)/,
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/\b[a-z0-9-]+\.(?:com|net|org|io|co|me|gg|ly|link|xyz|onl|vip|app|to|tv|ru|info)\b(?:\/\S*)?/i,
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/\b[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,}\b/i,
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];
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/**
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* Pulling someone into DMs is the behaviour that gets an account reported, and
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* it is not what growth commenting is for.
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*/
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const SOLICITATION_PATTERNS: readonly RegExp[] = [
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/\b(?:dm|pm)\s*(?:me|us)\b/i,
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/\b(?:message|msg|inbox|text)\s+me\b/i,
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/\bcheck\s+(?:out\s+)?my\s+(?:profile|page|bio|post|content|link)/i,
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/\blink\s+in\s+(?:my\s+)?bio\b/i,
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/\bhit\s+me\s+up\b/i,
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/\bfollow\s+me\b/i,
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/\bin\s+my\s+dms?\b/i,
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/\bsend\s+me\s+a\s+(?:dm|pm|message)\b/i,
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/\bmy\s+(?:onlyfans|of|fansly|telegram|snap(?:chat)?|insta(?:gram)?|discord)\b/i,
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];
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/**
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* Text that shows the model broke character, narrated the task, or followed an
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* instruction embedded in the thread. Posting any of it would be conspicuous.
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*/
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const BROKEN_FRAME_PATTERNS: readonly RegExp[] = [
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/\bas an? (?:ai|language model|assistant)\b/i,
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/\bi(?:'m| am) (?:an? )?(?:ai|language model|bot|assistant)\b/i,
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/\bi cannot (?:comply|assist|help with that)\b/i,
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/\b(?:here(?:'s| is)|sure,? here)\s+(?:is\s+)?(?:a|my|the)\s+(?:comment|reply|response|draft)/i,
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/\b(?:comment|reply|response)\s*[:：]\s*$/im,
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/\bignore (?:the )?(?:previous|above|prior) instructions\b/i,
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/\bsystem prompt\b/i,
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/\bas requested\b/i,
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/\boption \d\s*[:.]/i,
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/^\s*(?:draft|version)\s*\d/im,
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];
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/**
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* Low-effort filler. These read as karma farming to a human moderator, which is
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* exactly the impression this feature must avoid.
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*/
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const FILLER_PHRASES: readonly string[] = [
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'this',
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'this!',
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'^this',
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'thisssss',
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'nice',
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'cool',
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'lol',
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'lmao',
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'same',
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'agreed',
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'facts',
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'based',
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'great post',
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'nice post',
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'good post',
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'love this',
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'so true',
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'underrated comment',
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'came here to say this',
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'take my upvote',
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'this is the way',
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'first',
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'following',
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'commenting for visibility',
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'rip',
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'f',
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'oof',
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'thanks for sharing',
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];
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/**
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* The last check before a comment becomes public. Nothing downstream of this is
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* reversible, so every branch fails closed: an unrecognised shape is rejected
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* rather than posted.
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*
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* This runs independently of prompt wording on purpose — the prompt asks for
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* good behaviour, this enforces it.
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*/
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export function screenGrowthComment(comment: string): GrowthCommentVerdict {
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const trimmed = comment.trim();
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if (trimmed.length < MIN_GROWTH_COMMENT_LENGTH) {
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return { safe: false, reason: `Comment is too short to be worth posting (${trimmed.length} chars)` };
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}
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if (trimmed.length > MAX_GROWTH_COMMENT_LENGTH) {
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return { safe: false, reason: `Comment is too long for a casual reply (${trimmed.length} chars)` };
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}
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const normalized = normalizeForFillerMatch(trimmed);
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if (FILLER_PHRASES.includes(normalized)) {
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return { safe: false, reason: `Comment is low-effort filler ("${trimmed.slice(0, 40)}")` };
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}
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for (const pattern of LINK_PATTERNS) {
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if (pattern.test(trimmed)) {
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return { safe: false, reason: 'Comment contains a link, domain, or email address' };
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}
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}
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for (const pattern of SOLICITATION_PATTERNS) {
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if (pattern.test(trimmed)) {
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return { safe: false, reason: 'Comment solicits contact or promotes a profile' };
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}
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}
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for (const pattern of BROKEN_FRAME_PATTERNS) {
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if (pattern.test(trimmed)) {
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return { safe: false, reason: 'Comment reveals the generator or narrates the task' };
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}
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}
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// Pinging a named user drags a stranger into a conversation they did not join.
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if (/(?:^|[\s(])\/?u\/[a-z0-9_-]{3,}/i.test(trimmed)) {
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return { safe: false, reason: 'Comment mentions another user directly' };
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}
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if (!isSafeOutboundMessage(trimmed)) {
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return { safe: false, reason: 'Comment implies shared location or invites an in-person meeting' };
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}
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return { safe: true };
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}
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function normalizeForFillerMatch(comment: string): string {
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return comment
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.toLowerCase()
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.replace(/[‘’]/g, "'")
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.replace(/[^a-z0-9'^ ]/g, '')
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.replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
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.trim();
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}
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