viral-carousel

viral-carousel is a skill for Claude Code from Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills. It costs 90 tokens per session (926 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for studying successful social-media carousels, which are posts made of several swipeable slides, and creating a new one from the patterns found. It uses posts, captions, and engagement data when those sources are available.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for finding high-performing carousel posts, comparing them with an account's usual results, analysing their structure, and drafting a new carousel in the user's words and design.
Why use it?
It helps choose a topic and structure based on examples that performed well in a specific niche rather than guessing what to publish.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-content-skills plugin — 54 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for finding high-performing carousel posts, comparing them with an account's usual results, analysing their structure, and drafting a new carousel in the user's words and design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ootto-ai/claude-content-skills/viral-carousel
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills --skill viral-carousel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-content-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 926 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00090 $0.00926
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00370
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00093

Measured 19d ago against content hash 1bc214249a73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

viral-carousel scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 19d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/viral-carousel/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Making a carousel with Claude is the easy part. Knowing which carousel to make is the hard part. This skill does the hard part first: it finds what your niche is already saving, then builds yours on that shape.

When to use

Before you post any carousel. Also when a carousel in your niche blew up and you want yours built the same way.

What you'll need

Your niche, 5-10 accounts you compete with (or carousel links), and your topic. For live numbers: the Instagram connector (Composio, or Ootto at ootto.ai) so Claude can read posts and counts.

Instructions

  1. Find. Pull the last 30-50 posts of each account (Instagram Graph API business_discovery, the Composio Instagram tools, or the links the user pastes). Keep only carousels.
  2. Rank. For each account, compute its median likes + comments. Mark a carousel viral when it beats its own account median by 3x or more. A small account's 3x beats a big account's average, because it proves the post, not the follower count.
  3. Fetch. For the top 3-5 viral carousels, download every slide and the caption.
  4. Break down. Run this on each one:
You are my carousel analyst. Here are the slides and caption of a carousel that went viral: [SLIDES + CAPTION].

For every slide give me: its job (hook / payoff / proof / step / summary / ask), the words on it, and why it is there.
Then tell me:
- Slide 1: what makes it stop the scroll (claim, number, contrast, question).
- Where the proof sits, and what kind it is (a result, a screenshot, a number).
- The slide people save, and why they would.
- Where the ask is, and what it asks for.
- The slide count and the reading rhythm (one idea per slide or not).
Finish with the STRUCTURE as a numbered list of slide jobs, with no topic words in it.
  1. Build. Hand the structure to carousel-builder:
Build my carousel on this proven structure: [STRUCTURE].
My topic: [TOPIC]. My audience: [WHO]. My ask: [save / follow / comment WORD].
Keep every slide's job. Write every word fresh in my voice. Use my colours, fonts and handle.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 19d ago First seen · 80 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 1bc214249a73

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viral-carousel is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills (301 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 926 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-09.

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