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What can agents actually do with Instagram?

External systems are where agent answers come from. The Instagram connector is one of 222 executable connectors and gives agents 9 tools, with the credential held in the vault and every call receipted.

The Instagram tool list, exactly as agents see it

discover_account — Resolve the Instagram professional account linked to a Facebook Page. Honest error when no Instagram account is linked.
get_account — Get Instagram professional account details (bio, followers, media count).
list_media — List recent media posted to an Instagram professional account.
get_media_insights — Get performance insights for a single media item (default metrics: reach, saved, likes, comments, shares, views). Metric names churn across Graph API versions; an invalid-metric error is surfaced from Meta verbatim, never masked.
get_account_insights — Get account-level insights for an Instagram professional account (default metrics: reach, follower_count).
get_comments — List comments on an Instagram media item.
get_publishing_limit — Get the rolling 24-hour publishing quota usage for an Instagram professional account (hard cap: 100 API-published posts per 24h; a carousel counts as 1).
publish_media — Publish a single image, video, or reel to an Instagram professional account. Files a human approval request; the post goes out only after an approver says yes. Carousel posts are not supported.
reply_comment — Reply to a comment on an Instagram media item. Files a human approval request; the reply goes out only after an approver says yes.

What the Instagram connector needs

You provide access token from your Instagram account. The credential is stored encrypted in the vault and resolved just-in-time, so agents use it without ever seeing it.

Where to get it: Instagram's own API documentation ↗ covers creating and scoping the credential.

How proven is this?

The Instagram connector is a hand-written module that has been exercised against the live Instagram API.

Credentialed The vault stores, tests and just-in-time resolves its credential; agents never see the secret.
Agent-owned A dedicated agent (instagram) owns it out of the box.
Schedulable Not yet exposed in the workflow builder; that integration is on the connector roadmap.
Evidenced Per-call evidence envelopes are on the roadmap; vault credential use is already receipted.

Instagram integration FAQ

What can Quox agents do with Instagram?

Agents can run 9 tools against Instagram: discover account, get account, list media, get media insights, get account insights and more. Every call is receipted in the evidence trail.

What does the Instagram integration need?

You provide access token from your Instagram account. The credential is stored encrypted in the vault and resolved just-in-time, so agents use it without ever seeing it.

Do agents see my Instagram credentials?

No. Credentials live encrypted in the Quox vault and are resolved server-side at call time. Agents invoke tools; they never receive the underlying secret.

How proven is the Instagram connector?