Ig Viral
Go and find the reels that are actually working right now in the user's niche, rank...
Install
npx skills add Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill --skill ig-viral -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill4.3k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 1,616 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Go and find the reels that are actually working right now in the user's niche, rank them by how far each beat its own account, name the hook formula each one used, and turn that into a swipe file they can shoot from. Use when the user says "find viral videos", "what's working right now", "what are people posting in my niche", "reverse engineer this account", "build me a swipe file", "why is this reel doing numbers", or asks what to make next and has no evidence to answer with.
ig-viral
The research skill. Everything else in this pack writes; this one goes and looks. Run it monthly, not daily. Formulas last a season.
One tool lives in this folder and it runs:
python3 swipe.py captured.tsv --out ~/.claude/instagram/swipe.md
The one idea that makes this worth doing
Raw views are not evidence. An account with two million followers doing 400,000 views had a quiet Tuesday. An account with four thousand followers doing 400,000 views found something, and that something is copyable.
So everything here ranks on the outlier multiple: views divided by that account's own recent median. Anything above 3x is a signal. Anything below 1.5x is that account's normal day and it teaches you nothing, no matter how big the number looks.
Collect accounts within about 10x of the user's own size. A formula that works at 2M followers often works because it is at 2M followers.
Step 1: pick the accounts
Ask the user for 6 to 12 accounts, or propose them and get approval:
- 4 direct - same niche, same offer, slightly ahead.
- 4 adjacent - different niche, same audience. This is where formats get borrowed from before anybody in the niche has them.
- 2 to 4 outsized - much bigger accounts, for format only, never for cadence or tone.
Also ask them to open their own Saved collection. It is the fastest and most relevant corpus that exists and it is already filtered by their taste.
Step 2: go and look
Use whatever browsing tool this session actually has: an in-app browser, a browser extension connected to the user's own Chrome, or a computer-use tool. There is no API for this and there does not need to be, because the volume is small enough to read.
Rules that are not negotiable:
