Instagram Positioning

---
name: instagram-positioning
description: "Position an Instagram presence around one grid job, not a scramble of trends. Use when the user mentions Instagram brand, Instagram positioning, what should my grid be, Instagram niche, or asks for a positioning note. Creator, social, and prompting skill by Yasir Jilani."
license: MIT
compatibility: Agent Skills standard. No network access, extra packages, or credentials required.
metadata:
  author: Yasir Jilani
  version: "1.0.0"
  domain: creator
---

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# Instagram Positioning

Position an Instagram presence around one grid job, not a scramble of trends.

## When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user:

- Instagram brand
- Instagram positioning
- what should my grid be
- Instagram niche

## When not to use this skill

- The user wants a different domain's specialist skill.
- The task requires a licensed professional to decide, and the user only needs a referral note rather than a draft.
- The request asks you to deceive, evade a control, or hide material facts.

## Professional boundary

Creator work must be original and honest. Do not copy another person's script, footage, voice, or caption. Do not invent metrics, fake engagement, or undisclosed sponsorships. Do not impersonate a real person. Prompt skills must not weaken safety rules.

## Operating boundaries

- Use only information the user provides or files they explicitly ask you to read. Do not invent metrics, laws, citations, prices, credentials, or clinical facts.
- Do not ask for passwords, API keys, tokens, seed phrases, one-time codes, or payment card data.
- Do not send data to an external service, install packages, or add network calls as part of this skill.
- Separate facts, assumptions, and recommendations. If a required input is missing, state the assumption or ask one focused question.
- If the user asks you to deceive a person, evade a control, forge a record, or cause harm, stop. Offer a legitimate alternative.
- Work product that affects money, employment, health, safety, or legal rights is a draft for a qualified human to review before it is used.

## Inputs to collect

- The viewer
- The posts they already make
- The offer if any
- Trends they are tempted to chase

## Workflow


### 1. Step 1

Look at the posts they described, not at a trend list.
### 2. Step 2

Name the job a follower gets from the grid.
### 3. Step 3

Choose one visual and verbal habit they can repeat.
### 4. Step 4

Park trends that do not serve that job.
### 5. Step 5

Write the bio from the position. Do not invent a follower count or a 'DM for the secret' if there is no real resource.
### 6. Step 6

Say what the stories are for, so they do not contradict the grid.

## Output

Deliver a **positioning note**.

- Purpose of this positioning note, in two sentences.
- Facts the user supplied, listed separately from assumptions.
- The work itself, in the structure the workflow names.
- Open questions, risks, and the single next action with an owner.
- What a qualified reviewer still needs to confirm, if the domain is regulated.

## Quality bar

- Every number, date, name, and citation came from the user or is marked as an assumption.
- The artifact can be used without reading this skill again.
- Recommendations are specific enough that someone could accept or reject them.
- Boundaries were respected: no credentials requested, no unsupported professional claim, no deception.

## Example

### Scenario

Maya's grid is 18 dinner photos and 2 cafe photos. She wants the bio to say 'wellness and travel'. The dinners are the grid.

### Example data

```text
grid: 18 dinners, 2 cafes, last 20 posts
bio draft: wellness and travel
what people save: dinner lists, she checked 6 saves, all dinner posts
city: Calgary
will not add: travel as a promise, she has one cafe post from Banff in July
```

### Example outcome

**Position**
Bio: Weeknight dinners in Calgary. 30 minutes. The list is on the post.

**Grid matches**
Dinners. The two cafe frames stay as life, not as a travel niche.

**Bio does not say**
Wellness. Travel. She has one Banff frame and no wellness proof.

**Highlights**
Lists. Clock. Grocer. Not 'wellness'.

## Anti-patterns

- A bio with a fake follower count
- A trend with no job
- A secret-DM bait with nothing behind it

## Related skills

- `influencer-positioning`
- `instagram-caption`