Instagram for AI agents

Instagram is a social platform for photos, videos, and stories; its business API supports posting, messaging, and insights for creator and business accounts. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.

Connect Instagram See the 38 actions ↓

Social mediaOAuth 2.0MCP + RESTinstagram.com

AUDIT LOG · INSTAGRAMPOLICY: acme-support

09:41:07 · claude · u_8f2read

instagram.list_all_messages

List All Messages✓ allowed · 212ms

09:41:08 · claude · u_8f2read

instagram.get_ig_media

Get Instagram Media✓ allowed · 164ms

09:41:09 · claude · u_8f2write

instagram.create_post

Create Post (Deprecated)✓ approved · approved by user

09:41:12 · claude · u_8f2destructive

instagram.delete_comment

Delete Comment✕ blocked · policy: deny

EVERY INSTAGRAM CALL, ON THE RECORD

01 · USE CASES

What agents do in Instagram.

Check a post's insights

Pull engagement insights on a recent post to report on how a campaign performed.

Read direct message conversations

List recent conversations to find a customer inquiry that needs a reply.

Publish a new post with approval

Publish a media container to the feed only after the brand team approves the final caption.

02 · ACTIONS

38 Instagram actions, graded by risk.

Every Instagram action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.

read

Look things up. Allowed by default.

instagram.get_ig_media
Get Instagram Media
instagram.get_user_info
Get User Info
instagram.get_user_media
Get User Media (Deprecated)
instagram.get_post_status
Get Post Status (Deprecated)
instagram.get_conversation
Get Conversation
instagram.get_ig_user_tags
Get IG User Tags (Deprecated)
instagram.get_ig_user_media
List User Media
instagram.get_post_comments
Get Post Comments (Deprecated)
instagram.get_post_insights
Get Post Insights (Deprecated)
instagram.get_user_insights
Get User Insights
instagram.list_all_messages
List All Messages
instagram.get_ig_user_stories
Get IG User Stories
instagram.list_subscribed_apps
List Subscribed Apps
instagram.get_ig_media_children
Get IG Media Children
instagram.get_ig_media_comments
List Media Comments
instagram.get_ig_media_insights
Get IG Media Insights

+ 6 MORE

write

Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.

instagram.send_image
Send Image
instagram.create_post
Create Post (Deprecated)
instagram.send_text_message
Send Text Message
instagram.post_ig_user_media
Post IG User Media
instagram.post_ig_user_mentions
Reply to IG User Mentions
instagram.create_media_container
Create Media Container (Deprecated)
instagram.post_ig_media_comments
Post IG Media Comments
instagram.post_ig_comment_replies
Post IG Comment Replies
instagram.update_messenger_profile
Update Messenger Profile
instagram.create_carousel_container
Create Carousel Container
instagram.post_ig_user_media_publish
Publish IG User Media
instagram.mark_seen
Mark Seen
instagram.reply_to_comment
Reply To Comment (Deprecated)
instagram.enable_webhook_subscriptions
Enable Webhook Subscriptions

destructive

Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.

instagram.delete_comment
Delete Comment
instagram.delete_messenger_profile
Delete Messenger Profile

03 · HOW IT WORKS

Instagram in three steps.

01Your users connect InstagramThey sign in to Instagram on Arc0 Connect, under your brand, and approve the access you ask for.
02You set the rulesReads run, writes like “create Post (Deprecated)” can wait for the user, and “delete Comment” can be denied outright.
03Any agent can actYour agent calls Instagram through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.

POLICY.TS

await arc0.policies.set('instagram', {
  read: 'allow',
  write: 'ask',        // create_post
  destructive: 'deny',  // delete_comment
})

# Claude Code: the same connection, one URL
$ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \
    https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2

04 · AUTH AND DATA

How Instagram connects.

Users sign in to Instagram on Arc0 Connect and approve the scopes you request. Build with Arc0’s Instagram OAuth app, or bring your own so the Instagram consent screen names you. Tokens refresh automatically, and you can export them whenever you want.

The same Instagram connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →

AUTH: OAuth 2.0
CREDENTIALS: Per-tenant encrypted vault
MODEL SEES: Results only, never credentials
AUDIT LOG: Every call, on every plan

05 · WORKS WITH

Use Instagram from any agent.

Claude

ChatGPT

Cursor

Codex

VS Code

OpenAI Agents SDK

Claude Agent SDK

Vercel AI SDK

Mastra

LangGraph

06 · RELATED

More social media apps.

ContentStudio72 actions

Zernio52 actions

OneUp27 actions

ALL SOCIAL MEDIA APPS →

07 · FAQ

Instagram and Arc0, answered.

Q01

Can I use Instagram with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect Instagram to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the Instagram actions you allow.

Q02

How do users connect Instagram?

Q03

Which Instagram actions can my agent take?

38 in total: 22 read, 14 write and 2 destructive, such as “create Post (Deprecated)”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.

Q04

Can I stop my agent from deleting things in Instagram?

Yes. Actions like “delete Comment” are graded destructive. Set destructive actions to deny, or to ask so the user approves each one, and blocked calls still show up on the audit log.

Q05

Can my own backend call Instagram too?

Yes. The same Instagram connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.

Get started

Plug Instagram into your agent.

Your users connect Instagram once, under your brand. Your agent gets 38 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.

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Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan