How to authorize LinkedIn, why Kwern reads nothing back from it, and what the sixty-day grant means for an agent that keeps posting.
What you need
The LinkedIn profile you want to post from. Kwern posts from a member profile, not from a company page.
Connect it
Open Settings · Add an account and press Connect LinkedIn. LinkedIn asks you to authorize three scopes: your identity, your basic profile, and the right to post on your behalf. Your email address is never asked for, because nothing in Kwern reads it.
Then open the product's Apps page and press Choose what Kwern reads. The member is the resource; there is nothing to pick: check it and press Confirm.
What Kwern reads
Your name, once, to label the account. That is all.
LinkedIn's self-service products grant no analytics, so Kwern cannot read a post's impressions, your followers or a company page. It says so rather than pretending the numbers are on their way.
What Kwern can change
A post arrives planned for a day and an hour, and on approval Kwern publishes it from your profile at that hour; Publish sends it at once. A post over three thousand characters, the cap LinkedIn sets, is refused before it is sent.
LinkedIn grants Kwern no right to comment, so the first comment stays with the proposal for you to paste once the post is up. That is where the link goes.
The agents that use it
The LinkedIn agent needs it. It plans a post for each coming day of the week that has none, rotating through five angles — behind the scenes, lessons, a contrarian take, a milestone, a customer story — so a channel that posts every day does not say the same thing five days running.
When it breaks
The grant lasts sixty days and LinkedIn issues no refresh token. Kwern shows the expiry on the account in Settings, marks it as expiring, and pauses the agent when it runs out. Press Reconnect and everything the breakage paused goes back on.