5 open-source skills for stronger short-form video hooks.
Hook Skills is a focused skill pack for designing, decoding, routing, and QA-ing short-form video hooks.
It is built for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, UGC ads, AI video workflows, and any creative system where the first 1-3 seconds decide whether the viewer keeps watching.
This repo packages the hook layer only:
- choose the right opening route
- turn vague ideas into a stable hook brief
- decode benchmark references into reusable opening logic
- design stronger visual openings
- QA prompts before spending generation credits
Most short-form videos do not fail because the body is bad.
They fail because the opening does not create a concrete viewer question before the content feels like an ad.
We built these skills to make hook work less fuzzy and more operational:
- mechanism before wording
- product reveal timing before product hype
- visible conflict before visual polish
- reusable diagnosis before random inspiration
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pattern-router
Choose the right opening route before prompt writing starts. -
hook-design
Turn a rough idea into a reusableHook Brief. -
reference-decode
Distill benchmark clips and frames into reusable opening structure.
visual-hook
Strengthen frame one, first slide, or first 1-3 seconds.
prompt-preflight-qa
Catch weak openings, early product reveal, and prompt drift before generation.
This repo is informed by analysis across 1,000+ short-form hooks, benchmark openings, and hook-adjacent prompt examples.
The working method:
- Collect winning and failed opening examples across short-form formats.
- Group them by stop-scroll job, not by niche or surface wording.
- Compare viewer question, product timing, visible proof, and self-recognition.
- Extract reusable opening mechanisms and failure patterns.
- Package those judgments into installable skills instead of a swipe file.
Read the full write-up in docs/methodology.md.
| Tool | Install |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | /plugin marketplace add PostPlusAI/hook-skills |
| OpenClaw | clawhub install PostPlusAI/hook-skills or bundle |
| Gemini CLI | gemini extensions install https://github.com/PostPlusAI/hook-skills |
| Qwen Code | qwen extensions install https://github.com/PostPlusAI/hook-skills |
| Amp | amp skill add PostPlusAI/hook-skills |
| Kimi Code CLI | kimi plugin install https://github.com/PostPlusAI/hook-skills.git |
| CodeBuddy | /plugin marketplace add PostPlusAI/hook-skills then /plugin install postplus-hook-skills |
| Cursor / Codex / Windsurf / Cline / Copilot / 35+ agents | npx skills add PostPlusAI/hook-skills |
Install one skill:
npx skills add PostPlusAI/hook-skills -s hook-designThe repository includes the marketplace and extension manifests needed for these install surfaces.
Turn this rough opening into a stronger hook brief
The product appears too early. Fix the hook logic first
Decode this benchmark into a reusable opening structure
Review this prompt before we spend credits on generation
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Reference files (in routing/hook-design/):
hook-principles.md 6 mechanism definitions, product reveal rules,
common failure patterns
hook-examples.md 200+ example sentences organized by mechanism,
3 complete Hook Brief diagnosis examples,
appendices (FAQ, tips, niche references)
The goal is not to generate more hook ideas. The goal is to make the opening logic explicit enough that downstream prompt writing does not have to guess.
hook-skills/
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β βββ pattern-router/
β βββ hook-design/
β βββ reference-decode/
βββ creative/
β βββ visual-hook/
βββ qa/
β βββ prompt-preflight-qa/
βββ .claude-plugin/
βββ .codebuddy-plugin/
βββ docs/
βββ methodology.md
This is the open-source hook layer.
It is intentionally narrow, practical, and easy to install.
More production skills, research workflows, and creative systems: postplus.io
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
See VERSIONS.md.
