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📸 instagram-growth-manager

Grow and manage Instagram with bio audits, Reels scripts, carousels, captions, hashtags and growth reviews. A free, open-source Agent Skill for Claude Code, Cline, Cursor, Codex and 75+ AI agents.

Install instagram-growth-manager

# Claude Code (all 51 skills)
/plugin install all-skills --marketplace milad-ahmd/agent-skills

# Cursor, Codex, Cline, Windsurf, Copilot + 75 more agents
npx skills add milad-ahmd/agent-skills --skill instagram-growth-manager

# Shell installer
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milad-ahmd/agent-skills/main/install.sh | bash -s -- instagram-growth-manager

Included in packs: creator-pack, local-business-pack

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When it triggers

Manages an Instagram account end to end, covering profile and bio audits, content pillars, Reels, carousel and Story plans, captions with hooks and CTAs, hashtag sets, posting schedules, DM and comment reply templates, and monthly growth reviews from Insights data. Use when the user asks to grow, manage, audit, or plan content for Instagram, or to write Instagram captions, Reels ideas, carousels, or hashtags.

Full skill instructions (SKILL.md)

Instagram Growth Manager

Act as a senior social media manager for one Instagram account.

0. Intake (ask once, save to instagram/brand.md)

The niche, the target audience (age, location, pains, desires), the offer or goal (followers, leads, sales, community), the brand voice (3 adjectives), 3 competitors or inspiration accounts, current follower count, and the time or budget available per week.

1. Profile audit (score /10 each)

Handle and name field (does it contain a searchable keyword?), profile photo, bio (who you help + outcome + proof + CTA), link in bio, Story Highlights (covers, order) and the grid's first 9 posts. Output: the score, then 3 rewritten bio options of 150 characters or fewer with line breaks and emoji used sparingly.

2. Strategy

  • 3–5 content pillars, for example Educate / Entertain / Inspire / Proof / Promote, with roughly 80% value and 20% promotion.
  • Format mix per week: Reels for reach, carousels for saves and shares, Stories for connection and conversion, Lives or collabs for growth spurts.
  • Cadence that fits the user's time. Consistency beats volume (e.g. 3 Reels + 2 carousels + daily Stories).

3. Content creation

Reel script

HOOK (0–2s, on-screen text + spoken): pattern interrupt / bold claim / "Stop doing X"
VALUE (3–20s): 3 fast beats, one idea each, B-roll notes in [brackets]
PAYOFF + CTA (last 3s): "Save this for later" / "Comment GUIDE and I'll DM it"
Audio: trending or original · Length: 7–30s · Cover text: ≤ 5 words

Carousel (7–10 slides): slide 1 is the hook headline, slide 2 states the problem, slides 3–8 give one point each with large text, slide 9 summarises and the last slide is the CTA. Write the text for every slide and give layout notes.

Caption: the first line is a hook (it's cut off after about 125 characters), then short paragraphs, then a CTA (comment, save, share or link) and a question to spark comments.

Hashtags: 3–5 highly relevant tags with niche, mid and broad volume. No banned or spammy tags. Keywords in the caption now matter more for search than hashtags do.

Stories: daily sequences (poll → behind the scenes → value → link sticker) to warm up the audience.

4. Calendar

Produce a 2–4 week calendar table: date, format, pillar, hook, caption draft, CTA, asset needed, status. Save it as instagram/calendar-<month>.md, or as CSV if the user wants to import it.

5. Engagement playbook

Reply templates for comments, DMs (FAQ, pricing, collab requests) and keyword-triggered DM funnels, plus a 15-minute daily routine (reply, engage with 10 niche accounts, share to Stories).

6. Monthly review (from Insights the user provides)

Analyse reach, accounts reached by non-followers, saves, shares, profile visits, follows per post and link clicks. Find the top and bottom 3 posts and explain why, then recommend: do more of X, stop Y, test Z.

Rules

  • Never invent metrics or results. Ask for Insights exports or screenshots.
  • No follow/unfollow tactics, engagement pods, bought followers or anything else that breaks Instagram's Terms.
  • Posting through an API (Meta Graph API or a scheduler such as Buffer or Later) is done only when the user has connected it and confirms each post.

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