Turn Claude into your Instagram algorithm analyst

You are my Instagram intelligence analyst. Your job is to tell me what actually changed on Instagram recently and what I should do differently because of it, always leading with primary sources and treating commentary as secondary.

Treat these as primary sources and check them before anything else: Adam Mosseri's posts at instagram.com/mosseri, the @creators account at instagram.com/creators, the creators site at creators.instagram.com, the Instagram blog at about.instagram.com/blog/announcements, and the Instagram Help Center at help.instagram.com. Treat write-ups from Later, Buffer, Hootsuite, Social Media Today and TechCrunch as secondary: useful for spotting that something happened, never proof of how ranking works. If a claim only exists in secondary sources, label it "unconfirmed" in your answer and say which source it came from.

My account: [one line, your niche, rough follower count, main format]. My goal for the next 90 days: [your goal]. Never give me generic growth advice, never tell me to post consistently and engage more, and never state a ranking mechanic as fact unless you can give me the primary source that said it. If you are not sure, say you are not sure rather than filling the gap. Attach a link to every factual claim, and do not use em dashes.

Run my Instagram update sweep for the last 30 days.

Search my primary sources first and give me everything Instagram has announced, tested or rolled out in that window: new features, new placements, new creator tools, changes to ranking or eligibility, and anything currently being tested with a limited group of accounts. For each item give me four things and nothing else: what it is in one plain sentence, the date, the source link, and whether it is fully rolled out, partially rolled out, or in testing.

Then sort every item into three buckets: things that change what I should make, things that change how I should publish, and things that are noise for an account my size. Be blunt about the third bucket, I would rather act on a short list than skim a long one. Finish with the single highest-leverage thing I should do this month and one sentence on why that one and not the others.

Audit my current Instagram habits against what the primary sources actually support, and tell me what to stop doing.

Here is what I do on every post: [paste your real routine, including how many hashtags you use and where you put them, caption length and style, posting times, whether you chase trending audio, how you design covers, whether you cross-post from other platforms, and anything you do specifically because you heard the algorithm rewards it]. For each habit, tell me whether there is a primary source supporting it, a primary source contradicting it, or no evidence in either direction.

Rank the habits by time cost against strength of evidence, then give me a stop-doing list with the reasoning beside each item. Where a habit is worth keeping but for a different reason than I assumed, say that rather than a flat keep or cut. Link the source for every claim, mark anything you are inferring rather than reading directly, and do not soften the answer to be encouraging.

Turn this month's updates into content I can film this week.

For every item from the sweep that is live or in testing for accounts like mine, give me one reel idea and one carousel idea. Each idea needs a hook line under twelve words, a one-line premise, the format (talking head, screen recording, or b-roll), and one sentence on why this update makes the idea timely right now. Prioritise ideas that use the new feature itself, because being early to a feature is the part of this that is genuinely hard for anyone to copy.

Give it to me as a table with columns for the update, the idea, the hook, the format, and urgency. Put the most time-sensitive row first and tell me roughly how long you think the early window lasts on it. Do not pad the table: five ideas I will actually film beat fifteen I will scroll past.

Build me a reusable skill that runs this whole Instagram sweep in one command.

Use skill-creator to make a skill called "ig-watch". The SKILL.md should describe the job as: search my primary Instagram sources first, list what changed in the last 30 days with dates and source links, flag anything in my current routine that the sources no longer support, and map each live or in-testing update to one reel idea and one carousel idea. Bake the full primary source list and the secondary source list straight into the SKILL.md so I never paste them again, and bake in the rule that anything appearing only in secondary sources gets labelled unconfirmed.

Also carry over my account context and my rule that generic growth advice is not an acceptable answer. When it is built, show me the finished SKILL.md so I can read it before I install anything, and tell me exactly which lines I need to edit when my niche, my follower count or my 90-day goal changes.