headline-formulas

headline-formulas is a skill for Claude Code from brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,659 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for writing headlines for ads, emails, landing pages, blog posts, social posts, webinars, and videos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create headline variations, ad titles, email subject lines, blog titles, and test ideas.
Why use it?
It helps you choose wording, length, tone, and platform-specific limits so the first line earns attention and fits its placement.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the everything-claude-marketing plugin — 72 skills, 22 commands, 18 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create headline variations, ad titles, email subject lines, blog titles, and test ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing/headline-formulas
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing --skill headline-formulas
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install everything-claude-marketing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 72 skills, 22 commands, 18 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,659 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00027 $0.02659
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.01064
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00532
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00266

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 373f197c7620, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

headline-formulas scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/copy/headline-formulas/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Headline Formulas

When to Activate

Use this skill when writing or optimizing headlines for any marketing asset: blog posts, landing pages, email subject lines, ad copy, social media posts, webinar titles, or video titles. The headline is the single most important line of copy — 80% of people read the headline, only 20% read the rest.

First Questions

  1. What is the platform? (dictates character limits and tone)
  2. Who is the target reader? (their awareness level and language)
  3. What is the primary benefit or transformation?
  4. What emotion should the headline trigger? (curiosity, fear, desire, urgency)
  5. Is this for testing? (if so, generate 10+ variations across different formula types)

Platform-Specific Headline Lengths

Platform Ideal Length Max Length Notes
Google Search Ad Headline 25-30 chars 30 chars Up to 15 headlines per RSA
Google Search Ad Description 80-90 chars 90 chars Up to 4 descriptions
Meta Ad Primary Text First 125 chars visible 125 before "See more" Hook must be in first line
Meta Ad Headline 25-40 chars 40 chars Below the image
LinkedIn Ad Headline 50-70 chars 70 chars Professional tone
Email Subject Line 30-50 chars 60 chars (mobile cutoff) Preview text extends the hook
Blog Post Title 50-60 chars 60 chars (SEO title tag) Include primary keyword
YouTube Video Title 50-60 chars 100 chars Front-load the hook
TikTok Text Overlay 5-10 words Keep very short Must be readable in 1 second

The 25 Proven Headline Formulas

Formula 1: How to [Achieve Desired Result]

The workhorse. Always works because it promises useful information.

  • How to Write Emails That Actually Get Replies
  • How to Double Your Pipeline Without Hiring Another SDR
  • How to Build a Landing Page That Converts at 12%

Formula 2: How to [Achieve Result] Without [Pain Point]

Adds a pain-removal layer that increases click-through.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 260 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 373f197c7620

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headline-formulas is a skill published in the GitHub repository brainbytes-dev/everything-claude-marketing (10 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,659 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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