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# AI Assistant: Generate and Refine Social Posts

> Use Volta's built-in AI assistant to draft posts, refine tone, generate variations, and split long content for platform limits.

Volta includes a built-in AI writing assistant powered by OpenAI. Whether you're starting from a blank page, polishing a rough draft, or repurposing a long article into bite-sized social posts, the AI assistant helps you produce platform-ready content faster — without leaving the compose window.

## What the AI assistant can do

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Generate from a prompt" icon="wand-magic-sparkles">
    Describe a topic, paste a URL, or give the assistant a brief, and it will write a full social post ready to schedule.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Refine existing content" icon="pen-to-square">
    Paste or select content you've already written and ask the assistant to improve the tone, shorten it, or make it more engaging.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Split long content" icon="scissors">
    Paste a long article or thread and the assistant will break it into platform-appropriate chunks that respect character limits for X, LinkedIn, and others.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Generate variations" icon="copy">
    Ask for multiple versions of the same message for A/B testing — try a casual tone, a professional tone, and an emoji-heavy version all at once.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Accessing the AI assistant

The AI assistant is available in two places:

<Steps>
  <Step title="In the post compose window">
    Click the **AI** button in the toolbar of the compose window. A side panel opens where you can type a prompt or select text to refine. Generated content is inserted directly into the editor.
  </Step>

  <Step title="From the dashboard sidebar">
    Click the **AI Assistant** item in the left sidebar to open a standalone chat-style interface. This is useful when you want to brainstorm ideas or generate multiple drafts before committing to a post.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Availability

The AI assistant is available on all Volta plans — it is not gated behind a higher subscription tier. All you need is a connected OpenAI API key configured by your instance administrator.

<Note>
  AI features require an OpenAI API key to be configured by whoever manages your Volta instance. If the AI assistant button is disabled or returns an error, ask your admin to check that the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable is set correctly.
</Note>

## Generating images and video with AI agents

If you're using Volta's MCP server to build AI agent workflows, you have access to dedicated media generation tools alongside the text assistant:

* **`generateImageTool`** — generates an image from a text prompt and saves it to your media library, ready to attach to a post
* **`generateVideoTool`** — triggers AI video generation using your configured video provider

<Tip>
  Use `generateImageTool` and `generateVideoTool` from your MCP-connected AI agent (such as Claude or Codex) to produce images and video for posts entirely programmatically. See the [MCP server tools reference](/agent/mcp/tools) for full parameter details.
</Tip>