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Tiktok Trend Radar

v1.0.0

Automatically monitors TikTok and Instagram trends, detects hashtag spikes, generates AI-driven content ideas and scripts, and produces short videos via InVi...

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Purpose & Capability
The name/description match the instructions: the SKILL.md describes scraping TikTok/Instagram via Apify, analyzing with Claude/OpenClaw, generating scripts, and producing videos with InVideo. The code snippets and architecture are coherent with the stated purpose.
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Instruction Scope
The instructions direct the agent to scrape social media content and send raw trend/post data to external services (Claude/OpenClaw and InVideo) and to alert endpoints (webhook/Slack/email). Sending scraped text, author names, URLs, and engagement metrics to third‑party APIs is explicit in the SKILL.md and can leak personal or proprietary content. The SKILL.md also instructs installing npm packages and running Apify actors—reasonable for the task but granting outbound data flow to multiple external services.
Install Mechanism
This is an instruction‑only skill (no install spec or code files shipped by the registry). The install advice is simply to run npm install for common packages (apify-client, axios, node-cron) — a low-risk, standard approach. There are no arbitrary URL downloads or archive extraction instructions in the provided content.
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Credentials
The registry metadata lists no required environment variables, but SKILL.md explicitly requires multiple API keys (APIFY_TOKEN, INVIDEO_API_KEY, CLAUDE_API_KEY) and mentions alert endpoints (webhook/Slack/email) which would need credentials or endpoints. That discrepancy is a red flag: the skill will need secrets at runtime but does not declare them in metadata. Requiring multiple external service keys is proportionate to the described functionality, but the omission from metadata reduces transparency. Also consider that scraped content is sent to external AI/video services — this is a privacy/exfiltration risk that users must accept consciously.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not always-enabled and does not request elevated platform privileges in the provided metadata. There is no instruction to modify other skills or system-wide settings in the excerpt provided.
What to consider before installing
This skill appears to do what it says, but there are important issues to consider before installing: - Metadata mismatch: The registry claims no required env vars, yet the SKILL.md requires APIFY_TOKEN, INVIDEO_API_KEY, and CLAUDE_API_KEY (and likely credentials for Slack/webhooks). Treat this as a transparency problem — ask the publisher to update metadata to list required secrets. - Data exfiltration / privacy: The skill scrapes posts (text, authors, URLs, engagement) and sends that raw data to external services (Claude/OpenClaw, InVideo). If you care about user privacy, copyrighted content, or regulatory compliance, review whether sending scraped content to these services is acceptable. - Use least-privilege keys: If you proceed, create dedicated API credentials with the minimum scope and rate limits possible, not reuse personal or org-wide keys. - Test in isolation: Run the pipeline in a controlled environment (isolated account, test API keys) first to observe what data is transmitted and retained by downstream services. - Check terms of service and legality: Scraping TikTok/Instagram may violate their terms; ensure compliance and consider using official APIs where possible. - Ask for source or signed publisher: Because the skill is instruction-only and the registry source is 'unknown' with no homepage, request the full source or a trustworthy publisher record before wide deployment. - Referral links: The SKILL.md contains affiliate/referral URLs (Apify/InVideo). This is not necessarily malicious but is a signal to verify motivations and to avoid clicking untrusted links. If you need help: ask the publisher to provide an updated metadata manifest that lists required env vars and any webhook/notification credentials, and request a full review of the complete SKILL.md (untruncated) or source code before enabling autonomous use.

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MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.

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