outlier-post-finder

outlier-post-finder is a skill for Claude Code from ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding social posts, videos, reels, shorts, or tweets that performed unusually well for a creator, brand, or competitor.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps analyze successful content, extract hooks and formats, compare recent posts, and build a practical collection of examples to learn from.
Why use it?
It looks beyond raw view counts by comparing content with an account's usual performance and identifying repeatable reasons for the difference.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the social-media-research-skills plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps analyze successful content, extract hooks and formats, compare recent posts, and build a practical collection of examples to learn from.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills/outlier-post-finder
About the project

Social Media Research Skills is a collection of workflows that let AI coding agents research public social-media data across platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn. Marketers and researchers use it to find unusually successful posts, mine comments, study competitors, analyze ads, and extract trends into business outputs. The catalogue skills and plugin package these workflows for supported AI agents.

ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills · 4,948 stars · on GitHub · scrapecreators.com

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 ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills --skill outlier-post-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install social-media-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for outlier-post-finder

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills/outlier-post-finder/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills/outlier-post-finder)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills/outlier-post-finder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills/outlier-post-finder/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for outlier-post-finder

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills/outlier-post-finder"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills/outlier-post-finder.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,523 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
  • Socket pass 23 Jun 2026
  • Snyk warn 23 Jun 2026
  • 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 $0.00060 $0.01523
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00609
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00152

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c648fbe9dda6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

outlier-post-finder 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 1mo 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/outlier-post-finder/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Outlier Post Finder

Overview

Find social posts that beat an account's normal performance. The goal is not just to sort by views. The goal is to identify posts that performed unusually well for that creator or brand, then explain the repeatable patterns.

Use ScrapeCreators as the data layer. Pull recent public posts, normalize engagement metrics, calculate each account's baseline, and produce an outlier report with source URLs and practical takeaways.

When to Use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

  • find outlier posts, viral posts, top posts, best reels, best shorts, best TikToks, or best tweets
  • analyze why a creator's content is working
  • find competitor posts worth copying or learning from
  • build a swipe file from high-performing social posts
  • compare performance across a creator's recent posts

Do not use this for raw endpoint lookup only. Use scrapecreators-api for direct API routing.

Data Sources

Prefer the platform-specific feed endpoint, then enrich individual posts only when needed.

Platform Feed endpoint Detail/enrichment endpoint
TikTok /v3/tiktok/profile/videos /v2/tiktok/video, /v1/tiktok/video/transcript
Instagram posts /v2/instagram/user/posts /v1/instagram/post, /v2/instagram/media/transcript
Instagram reels /v1/instagram/user/reels /v1/instagram/post, /v2/instagram/media/transcript
YouTube videos /v1/youtube/channel-videos /v1/youtube/video, /v1/youtube/video/transcript
YouTube Shorts /v1/youtube/channel/shorts /v1/youtube/video, /v1/youtube/video/transcript
Facebook /v1/facebook/profile/posts, /v1/facebook/profile/reels /v1/facebook/post, /v1/facebook/post/transcript
LinkedIn /v1/linkedin/company/posts /v1/linkedin/post, /v1/linkedin/post/transcript
X/Twitter /v1/twitter/user-tweets /v1/twitter/tweet, /v1/twitter/tweet/transcript
Threads /v1/threads/user/posts /v1/threads/post
Bluesky /v1/bluesky/user/posts /v1/bluesky/post

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 1mo ago First seen · 152 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A c648fbe9dda6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

outlier-post-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository ScrapeCreators/social-media-research-skills (4,948 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,523 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

content-factory

The whole setup in one command — run the entire reel factory end to end. Claude takes a proven viral format, studies it frame by frame, writes an original hook + script in your voice, builds the finished reel (on-screen text, scene per beat, voiceover/music/captions/animations), writes the caption + hashtags, and…

Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills · 155 tokens

virality

Plan, script and review short-form videos (Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts) so they actually get watched, with hooks that do something extraordinary in the first 3 seconds. Use when the user wants a reel idea, a hook, a script, a storyboard, or wants to know why a post flopped. Built from the real winners and…

Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills · 95 tokens

agent-reach

An internet research and content-finding skill that routes requests to supported websites and search tools. It can also fetch video subtitles and download videos for analysis.

Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills · 334 tokens

reel-builder

Turn a teardown (or a rough idea) into a finished, ready-to-shoot reel. Claude writes the beat-by-beat script in your voice and lays out the on-screen text, the scene for each beat, the pacing cues, and the caption — your words on a proven structure. Use when the user says "build the reel", "make the reel", "write the…

Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills · 111 tokens

ai-brain

Give Claude a permanent, searchable long-term memory using an Obsidian vault as the store. At the end of a session, summarize what mattered and save it as a Markdown note in your "AI Brain" vault; at the start of a session (or on demand), read back only the relevant past notes. Local markdown you own — connected via…

Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills · 95 tokens

hook-mining

Mine a CSV of REAL top-performing hooks and generate alternatives that keep what made them work: hold the storytelling psychology and structure fixed, hot-swap only the power words. Use when the user has hook performance data (a Sandcastles / social-analytics export, scraped competitor hooks, their own analytics) and…

Ootto-AI/claude-content-skills · 111 tokens