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.

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 ~/.instagram-agent/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.

That stays true with PostZen connected. PostZen's comment tools work on the user's own posts only; the API does not comment on other people's posts, and automated engagement on other accounts is exactly what gets an account blocked. Commenting on someone else's post is a manual act, every time.