Along the way, the bot also commits any script changes to a git repo. It has its own GitHub account, so it’s still isolated and doesn’t have access to Micro.blog servers or the core platform codebase. I consider this a pretty big success, helping me do something that is tedious and low priority compared to all the other things we need to work on. Improving the books database is a long-term goal that might take a while, with multiple tasks beyond better data, such as a community admin interface for readers to help curate new releases and book covers. Letting the bot loose on one piece of this is giving the project momentum it might not otherwise have.