What actually happened, without the feed
New messages, invitations waiting for an answer, comments and reactions on your last post. Those are the things that need you; the rest of the interface is designed to keep you scrolling. Asking for them by name is the whole trick.
“What happened on my LinkedIn since yesterday?”
“Any invitations waiting, and who are they?”
An invitation is a decision, not a notification
The useful version is not you have eleven invitations, it is who they are and whether they are worth accepting: their role, their company, whether you have a connection in common. The agent can read the pending list and look up the ones that are not obvious.
Make it a morning task
A ChatGPT task can run the same prompt every weekday: what came in, what is waiting, what needs an answer today. Reading sends nothing, so it is safe on a schedule — and it replaces the check that would otherwise cost you the feed.
Reading is free of consequence
Listing conversations, invitations and comments has no visible effect on your account: nothing is marked read for anyone, nothing is accepted, nothing is sent. Every action that other people would see is a separate step you ask for.
The budget applies to reads too
About a hundred actions per day per account, reads included, because LinkedIn counts them. A check once or twice a day is nothing; a workflow polling every five minutes would spend the day’s budget finding out nothing changed.
It works because you never open the app
The reason this one sticks is behavioural rather than technical: the check that used to cost twenty minutes of feed now costs one answer. Anything that needs you then gets an explicit follow-up — read this thread, draft that reply, accept this invitation — and everything else stays unread, which is the point.
What it does not replace
It does not replace posting, and it does not replace reading your feed if the feed is where you find your work. What it replaces is the obligation to open the app in order to find out whether anything needed you — which for most people is the only reason they opened it, and the reason they lost twenty minutes.
Common questions
What can it check?
Messages, pending invitations, comments and reactions on your posts, and your connections — everything your account sees when you log in.
Will it accept invitations for me?
Only if you ask. Accepting is an action with a visible effect, so it is explicit rather than part of a check.
Can it run every morning?
Yes, as a scheduled ChatGPT task. Reading sends nothing, which makes it one of the few things safe to automate outright.
How LinkedIn works with Nilyo
Connection. Secure hosted sign-in (your LinkedIn credentials go to LinkedIn, never to the agent). Sales Navigator and Recruiter are detected automatically when your account has them.
What your agent can do. People and company search, profile lookup from a name or URL, your network and invitations, private conversations (classic, Sales Navigator, Recruiter inboxes), posts, comments and reactions, job postings and applicants, Recruiter projects.
Pacing and safety. About 100 actions per day per account, profile views and searches included; calls are serialized so an agent can never run LinkedIn requests in parallel.
- Profile URLs are resolved to stable profile IDs before any action.
- Invitations carry an optional note of up to 300 characters.
- Private or restricted profiles return an explicit “not accessible” result instead of a retry loop.
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