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
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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.
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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?)
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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]
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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.
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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:
- Source accounts (the ones you scanned).
- 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 ready-to-post remixes using the user's actual assets.
- 1 template to skip and why (so they understand the "fake it" filter).
Related skills
x-account-warmup— mining + daily posting is the warmup enginex-launch-video-structure— launch videos also follow templates; mine video posts separatelysocial-content-creation— for longer repurposing from existing content (different use case)