Viral Reverse Engineering
social-media-skills/skills/skills/viral-reverse-engineeringby social-media-skills6e30eeb2f6736bda8683b6bbaa674af3641d7945MITListed Oct 9, 2026Updated Oct 9, 2026
Use to reverse-engineer why a piece of content went viral (or overperformed) — yours or someone else's — and extract the repeatable mechanism to apply to your own content. Run when the user says "why did this go viral," "break down this viral post/video," "reverse engineer," "what made this work," or wants to learn from viral content. Sources the observable signal first (intake, transcript, screenshots, top comments, visible stats — an agent usually can't watch a video from a link) and never fabricates what it can't see. Reads brand-profile and audience first, deconstructs the piece layer by layer, isolates the real driver, runs a replicability check, extracts the transferable principle, and applies it to the user's niche via the content skills. Mechanism, never a copy; flags non-replicable virality; visible signals only (no WoopSocial analytics). Single-POST teardown only: for the account-level competitive landscape use competitor-analysis; for riding a live trend use trend-jacking.
Only the file list is public. File contents are available once the skill is installed in a workspace.
| Path | Size | Type |
|---|---|---|
| evals/evals.json | 5 KB | application/json |
| references/deconstruction-framework.md | 3.2 KB | text/markdown |
| references/examples.md | 3.5 KB | text/markdown |
| references/replicability-and-application.md | 3.7 KB | text/markdown |
| references/sourcing-the-content.md | 4 KB | text/markdown |
| references/why-things-spread.md | 2.9 KB | text/markdown |
| SKILL.md | 7.4 KB | text/markdown |
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