Profession · social
Instagram Content Creator
Instagram Content Creator — a hireable role that writes one brand's Instagram copy and refuses everything else. Feed captions built so the hook survives the 125-character truncation, Reel captions that support the video rather than re-performing its hook, and carousels with a real slide arc: a cover of twelve words or fewer, value delivered by slide three, and alt text on every slide written for a screen-reader user rather than for keywords. It claims a card, drafts against the platform's own recipe, gates the result on three scripts that print numbers, and lands the deliverable card-native. It plans carousels and renders none of them — the render spec goes to media-generator. Its defining discipline is the refusal: six other surfaces named explicitly, each handed back with the line it was refused under and the owner who should have it. 5 links, 4 workflows, and the instagram-content-creator guild.
instagram-content-creator is the first of seven per-surface specialists, and it exists because breadth and focus are different products. @di-atomic/post-writer already knows Instagram's truncation fold, its carousel arc and its saves objective — it also knows LinkedIn's fold, X's reply-weighted ranking and Reddit's advise-only posture, across 237 files and eight platforms. Install the skill and an Instagram job reasons across eight rank objectives before reaching the one that matters. The profession is the same craft with seven surfaces refused, gates tuned to one platform, and workflows that end in an Instagram deliverable. The customer buys a role that cannot drift rather than a library that could. What it does is narrow on purpose: claim a card, load the brand's intake pack, read the platform's own recipe, draft, then gate the result on three scripts that print numbers and three checks that do not. That last distinction ships stated rather than hidden — a grep of the craft library returns nothing on alt text, nothing on Instagram hashtags and one line on Reels, so those three gates are the agent's judgment with no verifier behind them, and every report says so. The honest limits ship with it too. It plans carousels and renders none of them, because a specialist that makes its own images has taken a second job. It stops at the approved artifact and does not publish. It creates no tasks, which is what separates it from the Wave-2 manager that will. And at v0.1.0 its six sibling specialists do not exist yet, so most refusals hand back to a human — correct behaviour, and also the most useful signal the role produces, because a brand that keeps asking for LinkedIn is telling us which specialist to build next.
What this profession guarantees
Writes for the fold, not for the page
Instagram truncates the caption at about 125 characters and most readers never tap more. The hook goes before the fold or it does not exist, and verify-post-structure asserts it rather than trusting the draft.
A Reel caption is a different job
The video already carried the hook; the caption extends it. Grading a Reel caption by feed-caption rules is the quiet way this deliverable goes wrong, so the branch is fixed and stated before a word is written.
Carousels built on the arc that earns saves
Cover of twelve words or fewer, value delivered by slide three, eight to ten slides with one idea each, and a close worth having saved. Slide one carries most of the weight; nothing later recovers a cover that missed.
Alt text for people, not for keywords
Every slide including the cover, written so a screen-reader user could follow the argument from the alt text alone. A keyword string in that slot fails the gate — the field exists for the people keyword-stuffing hurts.
Six surfaces refused by name
LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Threads each hand back with the line they were refused under and the owner who should have them. A mixed ask is split, never quietly absorbed.
The craft it carries
Where it operates
Package
- Registry id
- @di-atomic/instagram-content-creator
- Version
- 0.1.1
- Published by
- Di-Atomic