Instagram CLI for AI Agents

CLIs are eating MCPs. The industry is converging on the very same idea. MCPs for all their merit can be token hungry, slow, and unreliable for complex tool chaining. However, coding agents have become incredibly good at working with CLIs, and in fact they are far more comfortable working with CLI tools than MCP.

With Composio's Universal CLI, your coding agents can talk to over 1000+ SaaS applications. With Instagram, agents can get analytics for last week's posts, list your most recent instagram photos, fetch comments on your latest post, and more — all without worrying about authentication.

This guide walks you through Composio Universal CLI and explains how you can connect it with coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc, for end-to-end Instagram automation.

The idea behind building the universal CLI is to give agents a single command interface to interact with all your external applications. Here's what you'll get with it:

• Agent-friendly: Coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode can use CLI tools natively — no MCP setup required.
• Authentication handled: Connect once via OAuth or API Key, and all CLI commands work with your credentials automatically.
• Tool discovery: Search, inspect, and execute 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps from one interface.
• Trigger support: Use triggers to listen for events across your apps, powered by real-time webhooks or polling under the hood.
• Type generation: Generate typed schemas for autocomplete and type safety in your projects.

Prerequisites

Install the Composio CLI, authenticate, and initialize your project:

During login you'll be redirected to sign in page, finish the complete flow and you're all set.

Once it is installed, it's essentially done. Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, or any other agent will be able to access the CLI. A few steps to give agents access to your apps.

1. Launch your Coding Agent — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, anything you prefer.
2. Prompt it to "Authenticate with Instagram"
3. Complete the authentication and authorization flow and your Instagram integration is all set.
4. Start asking anything you want.

You can also manually execute CLI commands to interact with your Instagram.

Link your Instagram account and verify the connection:

Search and inspect available Instagram tools:

Generate typed schemas for Instagram tools to get autocomplete and type safety in your project:

• Always inspect a tool's input schema before executing: composio tools info <TOOL_NAME>
• Pipe output with jq for better readability: composio tools execute TOOL_NAME -d '{}' | jq
• Set COMPOSIO_API_KEY as an environment variable for CI/CD pipelines
• Use composio dev logs tools to inspect execution logs and debug issues

• Try asking your coding agent to perform various Instagram operations
• Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
• Set up triggers for real-time automation
• Use composio generate for typed schemas in your projects