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viral-reverse-engineering

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By social-media-skills/skills (GitHub) · marketing · 307 stars · scanned at commit f28cef2

Use to reverse-engineer why a piece of content went viral (or overperformed) — yours or someone else's — and extract the repeatable mechanism to apply to your own content. Run when the user says "why did this go viral," "break down this viral post/video," "reverse engineer," "what made this work," or wants to learn from viral content. Sources the observable signal first (intake, transcript, screenshots, top comments, visible stats — an agent usually can't watch a video from a link) and never fa…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'viral-reverse-engineering' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'viral-reverse-engineering' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named viral-reverse-engineering already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'f28cef2b7067ec64e79c9d85421c022c06659e03' -- 'skills/viral-reverse-engineering' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/viral-reverse-engineering' ~/.agents/skills/'viral-reverse-engineering' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'viral-reverse-engineering' ~/.claude/skills/'viral-reverse-engineering' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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