PJ Ace shares a Claude skill to test Instagram trial reels

• A creator-built Claude skill edits five or more video variants, posts them as Instagram trial reels and reports a winner, according to PJaccetturo’s demo.
• The shared skill remains in testing, with weekly updates planned in the release post.
• The project comes from a group of “mostly artists not engineers”, in PJaccetturo’s words.

Instagram’s trial-reel format sends experiments to non-followers before creators choose whether to share them more widely. A recent review of Instagram’s help pages flags an awkward catch for variant testing: Instagram may limit reach when it detects previously shared content.

PJ Ace, posting as PJaccetturo, has bundled the publishing grunt work into a three-stage Claude workflow:

1. Edit: Turn one source video into five or more versions.
2. Publish: Post the variants as Instagram trial reels.
3. Compare: Collect their performance results and report which version won.

The demonstration runs through editing and posting before ending with an analytics comparison of the published variants.

The Claude trial-reel automation demo

Instagram’s help pages, reviewed in October, describe three mechanics behind that testing loop:

• Reporting: Trial insights become available within 24 hours.
• Discovery: Followers can still encounter a trial through DMs, pages collecting reels with the same audio, or search engines. Trials are public, even while excluded from followers’ normal Feed and Reels tab.
• Automatic sharing: Instagram can share successful trials more widely. Enabling that setting applies it to subsequent trials until it is switched off.

The same review found that the familiar 72-hour automatic-sharing window comes from Instagram’s December 2024 launch announcement. The newer Help Center wording refers to performance soon after publishing, based on views and engagement, without specifying an hour count.

The resource is a Google Doc titled Trial Reels with Claude: Nexus Skill. PJaccetturo points readers back to the link when asked where to get it.

On X, he directs people to click through, explaining that the platform lacks the Manychat DM feature used on Instagram. The release post invites feedback and describes an ongoing weekly testing cycle:

PJaccetturo describes the group as “mostly artists not engineers”. In a separate reply, he puts the wider monthly team at 15 to 25 people and credits a partnership with Dreamina.