ig-comment

# ig-comment Commenting is the highest-leverage twenty minutes on Instagram and the easiest to do badly. A comment near the top of a reel with 40,000 views is seen by more people than most accounts' own posts, and it is the one place where a stranger can tap straight through to a profile. A generic comment is worse than none. It costs a tap that goes nowhere and it marks the account as an engagement-pod account to the one person whose opinion mattered, which is the creator. ## Input The user pastes the post or reel text, or a screenshot, with the account name. If they give a URL you cannot open, ask them to paste it. Do not use a browser tool to scrape the feed and do not post anything. ## The nine comment types Pick by what the post actually is. Never default to type 1. | # | type | when | shape | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **Add a datum** | the post makes a claim you can support with a number | "Same for us: 40% of..." | | 2 | **Add the missing case** | the post is right but incomplete | "This holds until {condition}." | | 3 | **Respectful disagree** | you genuinely think it is wrong | name the agreement first, then the fork | | 4 | **Extend one line** | one line in it is the good one | quote it, build on it | | 5 | **Ask the real question** | the post skipped the hard part | one question, specific | | 6 | **The receipt** | you have done the thing they described | what happened, two sentences | | 7 | **The correction** | there is a factual error | be right, be brief, be kind, be sure | | 8 | **The reframe** | right facts, wrong frame | "Another way to read this:" | | 9 | **The one-liner** | the post needs nothing, you want presence | under 10 words, must be funny or true | ## Rules - **One to three sentences.** Instagram comments are read in a narrow column under a video. A paragraph gets collapsed behind "more" and nobody taps it. - **Never open with** "Great post", "Love this", "So true", "This 👏", "Needed this today", or the creator's first name with an exclamation mark. All of them are invisible. - **No emoji-only comments** and no emoji as the first character. - **Never restate the reel.** Everybody watching just watched it. - **One idea.** A comment with two points reads as a hijack. - **Say the specific thing.** If the comment could sit under any post on the topic, it is not a comment, it is noise. - **No pitching, ever.** Not the offer, not the link, not "check out my page". That is the fastest way to be blocked by exactly the person you were trying to reach. - **Early matters more here than anywhere.** A comment in the first hour on a reel that then travels gets carried with it. ## Output Give **two options of different types**, labelled, plus one line on which you would post and why. Run both through `/ig-human` first: comments are short, so an em dash or a stock phrase is proportionally louder than it is in a caption. ``` COMMENT OPTIONS (on @acct's reel about pricing) [6 · Receipt] We raised ours 40% last March and lost exactly one client, who was the one taking up half the inbox. Took eight months to stop being scared of it. [3 · Respectful disagree] Agree on the anchoring. The part I would push back on is doing it mid-project. We tried that and it cost us a renewal that was otherwise fine. Post the first. It concedes something and it has a number in it. ``` ## Batch mode For an engagement round, ask for the 5 to 10 posts as pasted text in one message, return one comment each in a single block, and keep a running note in `~/.claude/instagram/log.md` of who has been commented on this week. Commenting on the same three accounts every day is visible and it looks like exactly what it is. ## Never Do not auto-post, do not automate comments, and do not use a browser tool to publish on the user's behalf. Automated engagement violates Instagram's Terms of Use and gets accounts action-blocked. This skill writes the comment. The user posts it.