design-instagram-post

design-instagram-post is a skill for Claude Code from slogsdon/skills-design. It costs 107 tokens per session (3,124 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that creates Instagram post artwork as an HTML canvas in portrait, square, or story dimensions, using a project’s brand files. Instagram is a social platform where these images are published.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create feed posts, square grid images, Stories, or Reel covers, with an optional caption suggestion.
Why use it?
It gives you a defined image format and layout process for creating posts that match the project’s existing brand styles.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is test -f ./design/<brand-slug>/tokens.css.

Part of the skills-design plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create feed posts, square grid images, Stories, or Reel covers, with an optional caption suggestion.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slogsdon/skills-design
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/slogsdon/skills-design/design-instagram-post

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,124 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 $0.00107 $0.03124
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01562
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00625
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00312

Measured 12d ago against content hash f54119731d8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-instagram-post 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 12d 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/design-instagram-post/SKILL.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: instagram-post

Produces a pixel-exact HTML canvas for Instagram. Three canvas modes:

  • portrait (default, 1080×1350) — feed post in 4:5 ratio, the maximum vertical real estate Instagram allows
  • square (1080×1080) — classic feed square, useful for grid coherence
  • story (1080×1920) — vertical 9:16 for Stories and Reels covers

Plus an optional caption suggestion (2200-char limit; first 125 chars visible before "more").

When to use

  • User wants a visual asset for Instagram (feed post, carousel cover, story, reel cover)
  • A DESIGN.md exists for the brand

Inputs

  • Required: brand slug, post topic / title (1 line)
  • Optional: mode (portrait | square | story, default portrait), supporting line, attribution, caption style, hashtag set

Output

./design/<brand-slug>/artifacts/instagram-<mode>-YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.html

Steps

1. Verify brand exists

test -f ./design/<brand-slug>/tokens.css

2. Pick mode

Default portrait (1080×1350) — gets the most feed space and converts best. Use square if user explicitly asks for grid coherence with existing square posts. Use story for Stories or Reel covers.

3. Gather the brief

Ask in one message:

1. Headline — the dominant text on the canvas (max 8 words for portrait/square, max 6 for story)
2. Optional supporting line (max 12 words)
3. Attribution — name + handle, or leave blank
4. Caption style: insight | story | announcement | carousel-intro | reel-cover | none
5. Hashtag set: any specific tags, or leave blank for none

4. Pick variation — ARCHITECTURE FIRST

Pick ONE archetype before any other axis. Portrait dimensions invite vertical type stacking and number-led layouts that horizontal formats don't — use them.

  • Architecture archetype (pick FIRST):
    • chrome-led — eyebrow + headline + footer band. Last resort. AI-editorial default.
    • type-only — pure type, no chrome.
    • number-led — one oversized number dominates; rest is short caption. Portrait format suits this beautifully.
    • object-of-content — looks like the thing being communicated (a list, a transcript fragment, a printed page, a journal entry).
    • pattern-led — typographic repetition or grid fills canvas; one element breaks it.
    • inverse-text — headline carved from a block of body copy; or massive headline with body wrapping negative space.
    • vertical-stack — words stacked one per line in display weight, leveraging portrait height. Each line is its own statement.

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 12d ago First seen · 280 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A f54119731d8a

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design-instagram-post is a skill published in the GitHub repository slogsdon/skills-design (3 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 3,124 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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