Jev Social — bounded social research in your real browser

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Disclosure: I maintain Jev Social in the socai-io organization.

Jev Social is an open-source local app that turns one Instagram, TikTok, or LinkedIn research goal into bounded browser operations, streams captured posts and media, and produces a source-linked report.

How Jev fits:

• A typed Choice first routes the goal to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, or unsupported.
• After every browser result, application code rebuilds the exact read-only choices that are currently valid: search, inspect an observed profile or post, read comments, or finish.
• Jev selects one choice. The local socai CLI validates and executes it in the user's signed-in Chrome; Jev never writes shell commands or arbitrary DOM selectors.
• Invalid or low-confidence choices fail closed. Login gates, rate limits, and step limits preserve partial evidence instead of turning an incomplete run into a success claim.

Run the pinned release:

npx github:socai-io/jev-social#v0.1.9 onboard
npx github:socai-io/jev-social#v0.1.9

The decision provider can be OpenRouter Jev or an explicitly configured, user-started loopback System One-compatible /v1/systemone service. Browser execution still requires a current socai CLI and the relevant platform login. TikTok media download is offered only when the research goal explicitly asks for media.

Evidence and source:

• Repository and setup
• Recorded Instagram report
• Recorded TikTok evidence
• Local System One provider guide

Current boundaries: three supported networks, read-only account behavior, explicit media intent, and reports grounded only in captured evidence. Published timings are individual recorded runs, not a benchmark or a general speed claim.

Feedback is welcome on the action boundaries, evidence retained between steps, and which additional read-only platform would be most useful.

[IRONICBo]

Small launch update with independently reproducible evidence: the 2026-09-20 snapshot from encoreshao/github-trending placed Jev Social #4 in the JavaScript topic and #11 in the Node.js topic.

• Fixed JavaScript snapshot
• Fixed Node.js snapshot

These are daily discovery positions, not latency, quality, or performance benchmarks.