postplus-hook-skills

Hook Skills

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

Why This Exists

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

What Is Inside

Routing

• pattern-router
  Choose the right opening route before prompt writing starts.

• hook-design
  Turn a rough idea into a reusable Hook Brief.

• reference-decode
  Distill benchmark clips and frames into reusable opening structure.

Creative

• visual-hook
  Strengthen frame one, first slide, or first 1-3 seconds.

QA

• prompt-preflight-qa
  Catch weak openings, early product reveal, and prompt drift before generation.

How We Distilled It

This repo is informed by analysis across 1,000+ short-form hooks, benchmark openings, and hook-adjacent prompt examples.

The working method:

1. Collect winning and failed opening examples across short-form formats.
2. Group them by stop-scroll job, not by niche or surface wording.
3. Compare viewer question, product timing, visible proof, and self-recognition.
4. Extract reusable opening mechanisms and failure patterns.
5. Package those judgments into installable skills instead of a swipe file.

Read the full write-up in docs/methodology.md.

Quick Start

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-design

The repository includes the marketplace and extension manifests needed for these install surfaces.

Try These Requests

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

Pipeline