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x-viral-template-miner

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When the user wants to find proven-to-travel post templates in their niche and adapt them to their own product. Also use when the user mentions "what's going viral in my space", "what are competitors posting", "copy a viral post", "trending on X", "post ideas", "template mining", or "what to post this week". This is trend hunting, not plagiarism — the output is a template the user fills with their own assets.

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What this skill does


# X Viral Template Miner

Great posts in your niche are a renewable resource. Something that went viral last week is a proven template you can fill with your own product, screenshot, or result. This skill systematizes finding those templates and adapting them — without just copying the post.

**When invoking**: Ask for the user's product, niche, and a list of 3-8 competitor / adjacent accounts. If they can't name any, help them find them first.

## Core rule

**Trend-match, don't time-travel.** What went viral a year ago won't work today. The mining window is the last 2-4 weeks. If you're looking at a post older than a month, it's a pattern study — not a template to use this week.

## Mining protocol

1. **List the sources.** 3-8 accounts that share your ICP. Mix of: direct competitors, adjacent tools, well-known individuals in the space, community-built-in-public accounts.

2. **Pull the top posts.** For each account, list their top 5 posts from the last 30 days by likes. Note:
   - Media type (text, image, video, GitHub link, screenshot)
   - Post structure (hook / body / CTA shape)
   - What the audience is actually reacting to (novelty? result? visualization? contrarian take?)

3. **Extract the template.** Strip out the specific product and leave the shape. Examples:
   - `[screenshot of GitHub repo tree] + [one-line claim about the capability]`
   - `[visualization of data/graph] + [contrarian observation]`
   - `[before/after demo GIF] + [what I was told was impossible]`
   - `[screenshot of real user reaction] + [this is why we built it]`

4. **Score for fit.** For each template, answer: can I produce a genuine instance of this with my current product, or am I faking it? Kill anything you'd have to fake.

5. **Remix, don't copy.** Produce your own instance with your own asset. Change the voice. Change the framing. Same shape, different filling.

## Signals that a template is actually viral

- Likes are >10x the author's baseline.
- Replies outnumber quote-tweets (replies are the strongest algorithm signal as of 2026).
- The post shows up in multiple accounts' feeds organically (not promoted).
- The post has been screenshot and re-shared by someone else.

## Output format

When asked to mine templates, produce:

1. **Source accounts** (the ones you scanned).
2. **Top 5 templates** from the last 30 days, each with:
   - Template shape (genericized, product-agnostic)
   - Original post(s) that validated it
   - Why it worked (1 sentence)
   - How the user's product could fill it
3. **3 ready-to-post remixes** using the user's actual assets.
4. **1 template to skip** and why (so they understand the "fake it" filter).

## Related skills

- `x-account-warmup` — mining + daily posting is the warmup engine
- `x-launch-video-structure` — launch videos also follow templates; mine video posts separately
- `social-content-creation` — for longer repurposing from existing content (different use case)

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