Hermoso is a marketing MCP server: 912+ tools over one OAuth’d endpoint that let an agent research the ads already running in a market, generate finished image and video ads, publish them, and build the paid campaigns behind them. Perplexity reaches all of it through one connection. This page covers one slice of that: what Perplexity can actually do on X, and what X will not let it do.
Connect Hermoso to Perplexity
- Copy the connector URL.
https://app.hermoso.ai/mcp - Perplexity → Customize → Connectors. In the left sidebar open Customize, then the Connectors tab → Custom connector (top right) → Add MCP connector.
- Fill in the connector. Name it Hermoso and paste the URL as the MCP server URL. Expand Advanced: Authentication OAuth, leaving Client ID and Client Secret empty (Perplexity reads Hermoso’s OAuth endpoints from its discovery document and identifies itself with its own client metadata, so there is nothing to create or paste), Transport Streamable HTTP, Network access Public. Tick I understand custom connectors can introduce risks and press Add.
- Sign in. On the Hermoso card click + (Add connector) and approve on the Hermoso consent page with your Hermoso account.
- Switch it on in a chat. A custom connector is off until you pick it: + (Add files or tools) → Connectors → tick Hermoso.
- Ask Perplexity for something. “Pull my three closest competitors’ longest-running ads and remix the best hook into a 9:16 video,” or “post this render to the channel.” The agent picks the tools; you approve the spend.
Custom connectors are on Perplexity’s paid plans. In an Enterprise organization, members can add their own only if an admin has switched on Allow members to add custom connectors, which is off by default, and an admin can instead add Hermoso once for everyone. We ran these steps end to end on 2026-09-28 from a Perplexity Pro account: the connector signed in and answered with the account’s credit balance and brand list. Hermoso is not affiliated with or endorsed by Perplexity.
Then connect X itself, once, under Settings → Connectors in Hermoso. That is an OAuth consent screen, so it is the one step that needs a browser. Everything after it is a tool call.
The X tools Perplexity gets
post_to_x: posts text, an image or a video with alt text, a whole thread, a reply, a quote post or a poll, and can restrict who is allowed to reply.post_x_article: publishes a long-form Article. Write it in Markdown and the headings, lists, quotes, links, code blocks and tables all carry across.edit_x_post: rewrites a post you have already published, inside the hour X allows.schedule_post: queues it on the shared calendar.x_post_metrics: the public counts on a post.x_post_insights: advertiser-grade numbers for the last 28 hours only: impressions, link clicks, profile visits, video views and completion quartiles.x_post_insights_historical: the same numbers over any date range, up to 25 posts at a time. This is the one for “how did last month go”.x_mentions: who is talking about the brand.delete_x_post: removes a post.
X is the only connector that costs money per call, and the numbers are published rather than hidden. Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads and Drive cost nothing per request; X charges us, so those calls bill a small number of credits each. A plain post is priced at $0.015 per request and a post containing a link at $0.200, roughly 13× more. Deletes, reads and the alt-text metadata write each carry their own price, and insights bill per post returned. Link detection deliberately errs toward assuming a link is present, because guessing wrong the other way costs us 13×. The practical consequence: on X, one good post beats five, and your agent is quoted the price before it posts. Length is the posting account’s, not a flat 280. Hermoso reads the account’s own X subscription and sends up to 25,000 characters where Premium allows it, so a long post goes out whole rather than coming back refused, and nothing is ever truncated. That happens to be the cheap shape too: one long post is a single billed X call where the same words split across five posts are five. X Premium also unlocks two things Hermoso publishes for you: a long-form Article, written in Markdown with its headings, lists, quotes, code blocks and tables intact, and an edit to a post you have already published, inside the hour X allows.
X limits worth knowing before you automate anything
| Text | Length is the posting account’s: 280 characters ordinarily, up to 25,000 with X Premium. Hermoso reads the subscription from X, so a long post goes out whole. Nothing is ever truncated. It is enforced when the post is created or queued, so an overlong post is refused while you are still there to fix it instead of being silently cut on the way out. |
|---|---|
| Visibility | Public only. A post on X is public the moment it exists. The API has no draft and no unlisted post. Protected accounts exist, but that is an account-wide setting Hermoso neither reads nor controls, not a per-post choice. |
| Carousel | Refused, by name, for a specific reason. “X has no swipeable carousel.” Its API attaches up to 4 media to a post and they render as a grid, every image visible at once with nothing to swipe to, so a numbered “1/6 · SWIPE” slide deck cannot be published there as intended. The refusal says what to do instead: “Post the single strongest slide to X, or drop X from this post.” A deck that instructs the reader to swipe, published as a grid, is worse than not publishing it. |
| Which account | None. X publishes to the connected account. |
Try it in Perplexity
Ask for it in ordinary language. These are plain sentences, not a DSL:
“Summarise the three biggest stories in our industry this week as one X post with a link to the best source, and tell me the cost before posting.”
That walks get_brand → generate_text → post_to_x → x_post_insights_historical. How Perplexity confirms a tool call is Perplexity’s setting, not ours. Hermoso’s own gates hold either way: campaigns are born paused, spend switches and deletes need an explicit confirmation, and every render is priced before it runs.
Perplexity on X: the part that bites
A sourced post is a linked post, and on X that is the expensive kind, so decide whether the link earns its price. Length follows the account: 280 characters ordinarily, up to 25,000 on X Premium, read from the account’s own subscription and refused rather than cut if the post runs over.
Choose Streamable HTTP, not SSE, when you add the connector. Hermoso has no SSE endpoint, so an SSE connector fails the check Perplexity runs when you save it. In an Enterprise org, a connector an admin adds does not show up for members until it is shared from the Permissions screen.
Research X before you post
There is no X ad library to search. X research here is your own account: mentions, post metrics and the historical advertiser numbers. Everything else in the research surface is unaffected: the Meta, Google and LinkedIn ad libraries, and organic TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Threads.
The paid half
X Ads landed in August 2026, so X is now both halves. The X Ads API is a separate product on a separate host with its own OAuth 1.0a signing, which is why it arrived after the rest. Hermoso now builds the whole promoted-post tree on it: campaign, line item (X’s name for an ad group), promoted tweet, targeting, budgets, status and reporting. An X ad promotes a post, so the creative is a post, the same one Hermoso publishes organically. The switch that arms real money refuses to run without an explicit confirmation, exactly as on the other eleven platforms. One thing to know before you plan a budget: X grants Ads API access per ad account rather than per app, so there is no OAuth button for it: you add Hermoso’s X user to your ad account at business.x.com → Account access, and it appears in list_x_ads_accounts with the permission level X gave it.
What Perplexity cannot do on its own
An agent with a budget is only useful if the blast radius is bounded, so the fence is in the server rather than in a prompt. Every ad campaign, ad set, ad group and ad is created paused, and the status switches that arm real money refuse to run without an explicit confirmation flag. Every render is quoted first (hermoso_capabilities publishes each model’s exact credit cost before anything spends). Credits are reserved before the first provider call and settled at the exact cost afterwards, so a failed dispatch refunds rather than leaving you billed for nothing. Deletes are confirm-gated too, and every campaign tree is read back from the ad platform before your agent tells you what it built.
One step is deliberately not headless: linking an account is an OAuth consent screen, so you connect the channel once in a browser. Everything after that is a tool call.
The rest of the matrix
From Perplexity, post to: Facebook · Instagram · Threads · TikTok · YouTube · LinkedIn · Pinterest · Bluesky · Telegram. Or see everything Perplexity can publish to.
Post to X from: Claude · ChatGPT · Claude Code · Cursor · Codex · Cline · OpenClaw · Grok Bot · Hermes · Gemini CLI · Le Chat · Claude Cowork · Perplexity Computer · Paperclip
Frequently asked questions
Can Perplexity post to X?
Yes, through Hermoso's MCP server. In Perplexity, add https://app.hermoso.ai/mcp as a custom connector and approve it with your Hermoso account. There is no key to paste. Perplexity then has 912+ tools, including the ones that publish to X, plus the ones that research the ads already running in your market and render the creative in the first place.
How do I connect X to Perplexity?
Two steps, once each. In Perplexity, add https://app.hermoso.ai/mcp as a custom connector and approve it with your Hermoso account. There is no key to paste. Then connect X inside Hermoso under Settings → Connectors, which is an OAuth consent screen in a browser. After that Perplexity publishes to X as an ordinary tool call.
Does Perplexity need my X password?
No. You connect X to Hermoso once through an OAuth consent screen in a browser, and Perplexity then reaches it as a tool call. Linking an account is the one step that is not headless; nothing after it needs a password, and no credential is ever handed to the model.
Can Perplexity schedule a X post for later?
Yes. schedule_post queues it on one calendar shared with every other channel, with a per-channel caption if the copy should differ, and list_scheduled and cancel_scheduled read and pull it back. X is one of the eleven channels that queue.
Can Perplexity post a carousel to X?
No. X’s API attaches up to four media to a post and they render as a grid, with every image visible at once and nothing to swipe to, so a numbered slide deck cannot be published there as intended. Perplexity calls the same publish tool either way, and a channel that cannot carry a carousel is refused with the real reason attached.
What does it cost to post to X from Perplexity?
X is the only connector that bills credits per call, because X charges per API request: roughly $0.015 for a post and $0.200 for a post containing a link, about 13 times more. Your agent is quoted the price before it posts. Plans are $19, $49 and $149 a month for 1,000, 3,000 and 10,000 credits, and every feature is on every plan including Free. The only exception is enterprise SSO.
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