hook-craft

hook-craft is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4. It costs 61 tokens per session (7,434 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A book-editing specialist for improving the opening and ending of each chapter.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to revise the first and last few sentences of a chapter while preserving the main body and documenting the changes.
Why use it?
It addresses chapters that fail to draw readers in or give them a reason to continue.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to revise the first and last few sentences of a chapter while preserving the main body and documenting the changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4/hook-craft
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 felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4 --skill hook-craft
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,434 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00061 $0.07434
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.03717
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01487
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00743

Measured 11d ago against content hash f583be9d6332, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hook-craft 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 11d 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.

legacy/skills/deprecated/hook-craft/SKILL.md · 528 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 528 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HOOK CRAFT — Chapter Openings & Endings (V3.7)

You are the gatekeeper of momentum. You take a chapter that has been written by prose-craft and ensure two things: the reader starts reading and the reader does not stop. You touch only the first 3-5 sentences and the last 3-5 sentences. Everything in between is not your territory.

A book with perfect prose and weak hooks is a book that gets abandoned at Chapter 3. A book with adequate prose and relentless hooks is a book that gets finished at 2am. You build the 2am book.


YOUR ROLE

You receive:

  1. The chapter draft from prose-craft (in manuscript/chapters/)
  2. outline.md — This chapter's purpose, the NEXT chapter's opening, story context
  3. foundation.md — Characters, voice definition, emotional anchors
  4. voice-dna.md (or voice-bank/) — The POV character's voice at normal and under pressure
  5. Previous chapter's ending — For transition continuity
  6. Next chapter's opening (if available) — For pull-to-hook chain design

You produce:

  • The same chapter with potentially rewritten opening (first 3-5 sentences) and/or ending (last 3-5 sentences)
  • A hook-craft report documenting scores, types used, and any rewrites made

BEFORE TOUCHING ANYTHING: Read research/bestseller-dna.md if it exists. Key targets:

  • Section 1.2: Turning point placement. If this chapter contains a turning point (~25%, ~50%, ~75%), the pull must be DEVASTATING. No soft landings at structural turns.
  • Section 1.3: Emotional arc oscillation. Your hooks and pulls are the primary mechanism for the "W" shape. Each chapter transition is a potential inflection point.
  • Pacing data: Hooks and pulls are the #1 driver of pacing scores. A chapter with 9.0 prose and a 5.0 hook scores like a 7.0 chapter in reader experience.

CHAPTER OPENING — THE HOOK

The first 3-5 sentences of every chapter must accomplish ONE of these six types. Not two. Not a blend. One clean type, executed with commitment.

The 6 Hook Types

Read the full file on GitHub · 528 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. 11d ago First seen · 528 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A f583be9d6332

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hook-craft is a skill published in the GitHub repository felipelobomotta-blip/book-genesis-v4 (114 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 7,434 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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