instagram

A skill for researching Instagram through the user’s logged-in browser session. It can retrieve profiles, posts, comments, followers, and following relationships, where Instagram makes that information available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Instagram profiles, posts, commenters, followers, following lists, and search results for research or outreach.
Why use it?
It allows research that may require the user’s Instagram login and organizes relationships such as who follows whom or who commented on a post. Instagram does not make every engagement detail available; for example, liker data is blocked here.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentproto/ts/instagram
Any agent
npx skills add agentproto/ts --skill instagram
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentproto/ts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,357 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00049 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00136

Measured 2d ago against content hash f664a8ecbb17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

instagram scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const r = await fetch(path, {
packages/skill-pack-bureau/src/skills/instagram/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instagram — recon plan (web private API)

Instagram adapterSOCIAL_PLATFORMS.instagram in @agstudio/browser-social (sites/instagram/adapter.ts): profile · authored · connection (followers/following) · engagement-received (commenters — the only IG edge; likers 403), as a SocialSourcePort. In-page igFetch (x-ig-app-id + x-csrftoken) + re-focus drift defense. Graph ingest: scripts/profile.ts instagram <username> --graph-only → registry capture → landFootprint graph sink (platform "instagram"): profile→SocialPerson, posts→AUTHORED, commenters→COMMENTED, followers/following→FOLLOWS. Same domain as LinkedIn → cross-platform queries just work. Likers stay 403.

Validated live (logged in, read-only): headers x-ig-app-id:936619743392459

  • x-csrftoken(csrftoken) + x-requested-with:XMLHttpRequest. web_profile_info?username=→200 (pk, full_name, follower/post counts). feed/user/<pk>/?count=N→200 (media: code, pk, like_count, comment_count, caption). media/<pk>/comments/→200 (commenters: @username + user pk + text = engagement edge). ⚠️ media/<pk>/likers/403 (IG hides likers). IG graph = followers/following + commenters, not likers. web_profile_info media edges are empty → use feed/user/<pk>/.

Internal API: web private REST https://www.instagram.com/api/v1/... + GraphQL https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query (and /api/graphql) using doc_id. The web UI calls these directly.

Auth (from the page)

  • cookies (sessionid, csrftoken, ds_user_id) ride same-origin.
  • headers required:
    • x-ig-app-id: 936619743392459 (the web app id — stable; also in the page's shared-data / a request header, capture to confirm),
    • x-csrftoken: <csrftoken cookie>,
    • x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest,
    • x-asbd-id (a small constant in requests — capture),
    • x-ig-www-claim (echoed from a prior response header x-ig-set-www-claim).

In-page fetch:

async path => {
  const csrf = (document.cookie.match(/csrftoken=([^;]+)/) || [])[1]
  const r = await fetch(path, {
    headers: {
      "x-ig-app-id": "936619743392459",
      "x-csrftoken": csrf,
      "x-requested-with": "XMLHttpRequest",
    },
  })
  return await r.json()
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 109 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A f664a8ecbb17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

instagram is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentproto/ts (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,357 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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