What is connect-instagram?

A setup walkthrough for connecting an Instagram professional account to a dashboard through Meta's tools and the Instagram Graph API, which lets software access account data.

Use it to connect Instagram, create the required Meta credentials, run the first sync, and open the dashboard.

It guides the user through the account, Facebook Page, app, token, environment settings, first data sync, and dashboard checks needed for setup.

How vvselijah/Claudegram configures Claude Code

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,463 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00086	$0.01463
Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.00585
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00293
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00146

Measured 2mo ago against content hash bf217be4eb17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

connect-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 2mo 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.

python -c "import urllib.request,urllib.parse,json,sys; a=urllib.parse.urlencode({'grant_type':'fb_exchange_token','client_id':sys.argv[1],'client_secret':sys.argv[2],'fb_exchange_token':sys.argv[3]}); print(json.load(ur

.claude/skills/connect-instagram/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Connect Instagram (setup walkthrough)

Your job: get this person from zero to a working dashboard. Getting the token is the only hard part — do it WITH them, one step at a time, and verify each step before moving on. Some steps only they can do (clicking inside Meta's UI / the Instagram app); do those parts as clear, numbered instructions and wait for them to confirm. The steps you can run (the token exchange, setup.py, refresh.py), run yourself.

Never ask them to paste a token into a file. Tokens and the app secret are used transiently and live only in environment variables.

Step 1 — Make the Instagram account eligible (user does this in the IG app)

Tell them to confirm all three:

Their Instagram is a Professional account (Business or Creator) — IG app → Settings → Account type and tools → Switch to professional account.
It's linked to a Facebook Page they admin — IG app → Settings → linked accounts / "Connect a Facebook Page". (Create a Page if they don't have one; it can be empty.)
They can log into that Facebook account on a computer. Wait for "done" before continuing. (Insights require Business/Creator + a linked Page.)

Step 2 — Create a Meta app (user does this at developers.facebook.com)

Guide them:

Go to developers.facebook.com → log in → My Apps → Create App.
Use case: choose "Other" → app type "Business" → name it anything → create.
In the app dashboard, Add Product → Instagram → Graph API (a.k.a. "Instagram" / "Instagram Graph API"). Also add Facebook Login if prompted.
From App settings → Basic, have them copy the App ID and App Secret (the secret is revealed with their password). They'll paste both to you in Step 4 — you'll use them once and never store them.

Step 3 — Generate a short-lived token (user does this in Graph API Explorer)

Go to developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer.
Top right: select their app in the "Meta App" dropdown, and "User Token".
Click Add a Permission and add ALL of these: instagram_basic, instagram_manage_insights, pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement.
Click Generate Access Token → approve the popup (select their Page + IG account).
Copy the token it shows. This one is short-lived (expires in ~1 hour) — that's expected; Step 4 turns it into a 60-day one. Have them paste it to you.

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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.

2mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A bf217be4eb17

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connect-instagram is a skill published in the GitHub repository vvselijah/Claudegram (50 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,463 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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