# Ig Viral

Go and find the reels that are actually working right now in the user's niche, rank...

- Repository: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill (4342 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-13
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill --skill ig-viral -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill --skill ig-viral -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill --skill ig-viral -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill --skill ig-viral -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill`

## Description

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.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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:

```bash
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:**

The rest: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill/blob/HEAD/skills/ig-viral/SKILL.md