Instagram

Instagram is Meta's photo- and video-sharing social network with Stories and Reels.

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Instagram

COMPANYMeta

REUSE RESEARCHPixelfed

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Company: Meta (meta)
Product type: social_network
Categories: photo-sharing social
Official site: https://www.instagram.com/ ↗
Catalog ID: meta-instagram

At a glance

Instagram is Meta's photo- and video-sharing social network with Stories and Reels.

Catalog categories: photo-sharing, social.

Catalogued capability areas: - Photo and video sharing - Stories and Reels - Following and discovery feeds

This summary reflects the catalog record, not a complete product specification. Verify intended users, end-to-end workflows, supported platforms, edge cases, data handling, and constraints against cited sources. Treat capability labels as research leads until that verification is complete.

Photo and video sharing
Stories and Reels
Following and discovery feeds

Open-source alternative

1 candidate project in the landscape. A candidate may cover all, part, or none of what Instagram does — read the coverage and gaps below.

Pixelfed

AGPL-3.0

Federated image sharing on ActivityPub.

Coverage and gaps

Alternative coverage

Partial. Pixelfed covers the core (photo sharing); Reels-scale video is not.

The gap

Pixelfed covers image sharing on the fediverse; short-video feeds and network scale are not replicated.

Build this product with your agent

This Markdown file is the coding-agent skill for Instagram. Give it to your agent in your project; it guides research, reuse decisions, implementation and verification.

rae meta-instagram --out ./meta-instagram-agent

agent-kit.mdDownloadable Markdown skill with product-specific instructions for your coding agent.available
skill.mdGenerated copy of the same product skill — rae meta-instagram --out ./meta-instagram-agent.in kit
mcp.jsonOptional MCP server config — rae meta-instagram --out ./meta-instagram-agent.in kit
Product workspaceOptional starting workspace for your agent — rae build product meta-instagram --out ./meta-instagram.

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Evidence

Sources

Provenance

Catalog record — catalog/products.jsonl
Research dossier — research/companies/meta/products/meta-instagram.md
REA web-surface report — catalog/rea/meta/meta-instagram.md
Open-source skill file — catalog/skills/meta/meta-instagram.md

Next step

Give the Instagram skill to your coding agent in your project. Ask it to evaluate Pixelfed ↗ against your needs, reuse what fits, then follow the skill's build and verification instructions.

Give the product skill to your coding agent in the project where you want to build. Optional starter workspace: rae build product meta-instagram --out ./meta-instagram. CLI reference.