headline-variants

headline-variants is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from konten-studio/jekardah-writer. It costs 54 tokens per session (863 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for generating and scoring alternative titles, headlines, or email subject lines for an existing piece of content. It treats the headline as a promise and keeps it within the facts and conclusions supported by the body.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating and selecting titles for blog posts, articles, YouTube videos, emails, and other long-form content.
Why use it?
It gives you distinct options for the text people see before opening or reading the content. Its fact limits reduce the risk of using a title that exaggerates the article, video, or email.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the jekardah-writer plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for creating and selecting titles for blog posts, articles, YouTube videos, emails, and other long-form content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/konten-studio/jekardah-writer/headline-variants
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 konten-studio/jekardah-writer --skill headline-variants
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/konten-studio/jekardah-writer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install jekardah-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 863 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 $0.00054 $0.00863
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00086

Measured yesterday against content hash cf32b2b5352d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

headline-variants 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 yesterday.

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/headline-variants/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Headline Variants

Generate and score title/headline/subject-line candidates for a piece of content. This is a separate deliverable surface from hook-gokil's body-opening line: a headline is read before the body, often outside the body's context (search result, video thumbnail, inbox list), and must stay accurate to what the body actually delivers even when the body itself is not shown.

Load only what you need

Non-negotiable truth contract

Treat the source draft/body as the claim ceiling for every headline, same discipline as hook-gokil.

  1. Lock facts before generating: names, numbers, dates, scope, and the body's actual conclusion or outcome.
  2. Never invent a number, ranking, timeframe, or outcome the body does not support.
  3. Never let a headline promise something the body doesn't deliver — a headline is a contract with the reader, not just an attention device.
  4. If the body's actual finding is modest, the headline may sharpen phrasing but must not claim more than the body proves.

Core workflow

  1. Parse the request. Deliverable (blog title, YouTube title, email subject, article headline), platform if supplied, desired count (default 5 if unspecified), and whether analysis, candidates, or a final selection is wanted.
  2. Build a fact lock. Extract the body's actual conclusion, key numbers, and scope — this is the ceiling every headline must stay under.
  3. Choose angles. Select from references/headline-patterns.md: benefit, curiosity gap, number/list, contrarian, how-to, and urgency-if-true. Skip any angle the body cannot support (e.g. no contrarian angle without an actual contrarian finding).
  4. Generate. Produce the requested count across at least 3 distinct angle types. Keep the strongest concrete word early; respect the platform's effective display length if one is supplied (defer exact limits to platform-format when both skills are in play).
  5. Score. Rate each candidate on clarity, accuracy-to-body (does the body actually deliver this), and click strength. Accuracy is a gate, not a weighted tradeoff — discard any candidate that overclaims.
  6. Select. Name the strongest headline, its angle type, and a one-sentence reason it wins and stays accurate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 52 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A cf32b2b5352d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

headline-variants is a skill published in the GitHub repository konten-studio/jekardah-writer (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 863 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 2026-09-10.

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