Instagram Agent Skill: the full setup guide
13 free Claude skills that write your reels, captions, comments, replies and weekly plan. How to set it up in Claude and what each skill does.
- Agent skills
- 13
- Hook formulas
- 26
- No signup, no API key
- Free
Setup
One paste in Claude, then ten minutes teaching it how you talk.
Install it
- Open Claude and paste the repo link: github.com/Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill Claude
- On the next line write: “Install this skill, then confirm /ig-reel works.” Claude
- Wait for Claude to confirm /ig-reel works. That's the install.
Teach it your voice
- Send Claude three of your own reels (scripts or captions) and say: “write my voice.md from these”.
- Read it and fix anything that doesn't sound like you. Every skill reads this file.
Steal this: On Claude Code you can also install it as a plugin: /plugin marketplace add Jakeschincariol/instagram-agent-skill, then /plugin install instagram-agent. Without Claude Code you can paste a single SKILL.md into a chat, but you lose the five scoring tools.
Create
One idea in, a reel script, caption or carousel out.
Idea → reel
- Give it one idea. It writes three hooks from 26 formulas and scores them. /ig-reel
- Pick a hook. You get the script, the on-screen text and a timed beat sheet. /ig-reel
- It writes the caption and shows you the part the feed shows before “more”. /ig-caption
- You record it and post it yourself.
One video → a week of posts
- Give it one video, podcast or newsletter. It turns it into a week of reels and carousels. /ig-repurpose
- Carousels come with the cover, the slide copy and the 1080x1350 files. /ig-carousel
- It plans the daily story sequence too. /ig-story
Steal this: Run /ig-reel before you shoot, not after. It kills weak hooks before you waste a take on them.
Engage
Comments, replies and DMs, written for you. You post them.
10 minutes a day
- Paste someone else's post. It writes a comment that fits that post. /ig-comment
- Paste the comments under your post. It sorts them and writes replies, most important first. /ig-reply
- It writes the keyword DM, the first message and the follow-ups. /ig-dm
Steal this: Commenting on other people's posts grows you faster than posting more. This makes it a daily habit, not a chore.
Grow
Find what's working in your niche, fix your profile, plan the week.
Find what works in your niche
- You open about 10 accounts in your niche. It reads their reels at human speed and never logs in as you. /ig-viral
- It ranks reels by how far each one beat its own account's normal, names the hook formula and writes a swipe file. /ig-viral
- Turn the best ideas into scripts for your audience, in your style. /ig-reel
Every week
- It plans the week: what to post, which format, when, and 10 accounts to engage with. /ig-plan
- It scores your profile out of 100 and rewrites what lost points. /ig-profile
- After you post, it reviews what worked and what didn't. /ig-audit
Polish
Makes AI drafts sound like a person wrote them.
Before anything goes out
- Run the draft through it. It removes stock AI phrases, em dashes and hidden characters. /ig-human
- It scores what's left and flags the lines that still need you to rewrite them. /ig-human
Start here
- Install it. One paste in Claude (steps below).
- Write your voice.md. Ten minutes. Everything sounds like you after this.
- Run /ig-plan and get this week’s plan.
- Script one reel with /ig-reel, record it, post it.
- Spend 10 minutes a day on /ig-comment and /ig-reply.
Good to know
- It doesn’t post anything. Every skill gives you a copy-ready block and you post it. That’s on purpose: tools that auto-post or auto-comment break Instagram’s rules and get accounts blocked.
- Free and open source (MIT). No signup, no API key, nothing to connect.
- Made by Jake Schincariol. All credit to him. The repo has every skill, the 26 hook formulas and the full details.
These skills write. You post.