Creating a post
The three ways to start an article: from an approved Topic, from a brief you write, or from a draft you already have.
There are three entry points, and they differ in how much of the article you are bringing with you.
The normal route. Pick an approved Topic and let the pipeline run.
You know exactly what you want written. Describe it and the pipeline writes that.
From an importYou already have the words. Bring the markdown and let the pipeline finish it.
From a Topic
Open Content, then Topics, choose an approved Topic and generate. The run does the same work Autopilot would do for that Topic: research against your Knowledge Engine, drafting in the Direction's voice and length, images, internal links against destinations that actually exist, and metadata.
You end up with a Post at whatever gate its Direction requires.
What a generation run costs
Each run consumes one post from the Project's allowance, plus images from the image allowance. A run that fails does not consume the allowance twice on retry.
On a paid plan that allowance is the billing period's and refills with it. On a Free Project it is the one-time lifetime grant, so each of the 3 posts is spent for good.
While it runs
The run is a job, not a page load. You can leave the page. Progress is visible in the Content workspace, and the Post appears as soon as there is something to show.