kol-discovery

kol-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from sandbaseai/sandbase-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (605 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for finding and evaluating public creators and KOLs—key opinion leaders—across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Xiaohongshu.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover creators, compare their public performance across platforms, assess audience fit, and prepare partnership or outreach lists.
Why use it?
It helps build creator shortlists based on audience relevance and engagement rather than follower counts alone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sandbase-skills plugin — 97 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to discover creators, compare their public performance across platforms, assess audience fit, and prepare partnership or outreach lists.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/kol-discovery
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 sandbaseai/sandbase-skills --skill kol-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandbaseai/sandbase-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sandbase-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 97 skills.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 605 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.00605
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00060

Measured 10d ago against content hash 95f30be7b888, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kol-discovery 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 10d 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.

research/kol-discovery/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KOL Discovery

Cross-platform influencer and creator discovery through SandBase. Find, evaluate, and compare creators across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Xiaohongshu. Read the API map before selecting a capability.

Call SandBase capabilities

For every selected tool, call sandbase_describe_tool first and use only arguments in its current input schema. Then call sandbase_call_tool with the exact tool_name.

Operating principles

  • Evaluate creators by engagement rate, not just follower count.
  • Cross-platform presence indicates established creators.
  • Engagement rate = (likes + comments) / followers for each platform.
  • Focus on content relevance and audience fit, not vanity metrics.
  • Respect creator privacy — only report on public information.

Workflow

1. Discover on TikTok

Use tiktok_app_v3_general_search_result to search by niche keyword. Use tiktok_app_v3_creator_info for creator profile and stats. Use tiktok_app_v3_creator_search_insights for performance data.

2. Discover on Instagram

Use instagram_v3_general_search to find creators by keyword. Use instagram_v3_user_profile for profile details and metrics. Use instagram_v3_user_posts to evaluate content quality and engagement. Use instagram_v3_similar_users to find more creators in the same niche.

3. Discover on YouTube

Use youtube_web_v2_search_channels to find channels by niche. Use youtube_web_v2_channel_videos to evaluate content and consistency. Use youtube_web_v2_channel_description for channel positioning.

4. Discover on 小红书

Use xiaohongshu_app_v2_search_users to find creators. Use xiaohongshu_app_v2_user_info for profile and fan count. Use xiaohongshu_app_v2_user_posted_notes for content analysis.

Output

Return: ranked creator list with metrics (followers, engagement rate, content fit), cross-platform presence, content style assessment, and outreach recommendation.

Example tasks

  • "Find 10 TikTok creators in the [niche] space with 50K-500K followers."
  • "Evaluate @[creator] across all platforms — followers, engagement, content fit for [brand]."
  • "Build an influencer outreach list for a [product category] launch in [market]."
  • "Find 小红书 KOLs who post about [category] with high engagement."
  • "Compare creator engagement rates between TikTok and Instagram for [niche]."

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 60 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 95f30be7b888

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kol-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandbaseai/sandbase-skills (145 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 605 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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