video-hook-generator

video-hook-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nicepkg/ai-workflow. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid for creating the opening line or moment of a video, especially its first three seconds. It produces several hook variations for YouTube, TikTok, and Reels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing video openings, testing alternative hooks, and planning introductions aimed at improving early viewer retention.
Why use it?
Viewers often decide quickly whether to keep watching or scroll away. Multiple opening options make it easier to test different ways of introducing the same video.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicepkg/ai-workflow/video-hook-generator
Any agent
npx skills add nicepkg/ai-workflow --skill video-hook-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/ai-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,999 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00062 $0.01999
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured yesterday against content hash 2ef9f51a38cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

video-hook-generator 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.

workflows/video-creator-workflow/.claude/skills/video-hook-generator/SKILL.md · 283 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 283 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Video Hook Generator

Create irresistible opening hooks that stop the scroll and maximize retention.

Why Hooks Matter

📊 RETENTION DATA:
- 20% of viewers leave in first 3 seconds
- 33% leave by 30 seconds
- A strong hook can improve retention by 50%+

The first 3 seconds = Life or death for your video

Hook Formulas (Proven Patterns)

1. Curiosity Gap

"The [thing] that [surprising claim]..."
"What [expert/celebrity] doesn't want you to know about..."
"I discovered something about [topic] that changes everything..."
"There's a reason why [common belief] is completely wrong..."

2. Bold Claim / Controversial Take

"[Common advice] is actually making things worse..."
"Stop [doing X] immediately. Here's why..."
"Everything you know about [topic] is wrong..."
"This is the [worst/best] advice I've ever heard..."

3. Result/Transformation Preview

"This is how I [achieved result] in [timeframe]..."
"Before vs After: What [X days/weeks] of [thing] looks like..."
"I went from [bad state] to [good state] by doing this one thing..."
"Watch what happens when I [do thing]..."

4. Pattern Interrupt

"Wait, don't scroll yet..."
"Okay hear me out..."
"I know this sounds crazy but..."
"You're not going to believe this..."

5. Direct Address / Call Out

"If you're [specific situation], this is for you..."
"The reason you're not [getting result] is probably this..."
"[Specific audience], stop what you're doing..."
"You've been [doing X] wrong your whole life..."

6. Story Teaser

"So there I was, [dramatic situation]..."
"This is the craziest thing that's ever happened to me..."
"I need to tell you about what happened when..."
"The moment everything changed was when..."

7. Number/List Promise

"[X] things I wish I knew before [starting thing]..."
"The [X] biggest mistakes [audience] make..."
"[X] seconds to understand [complex topic]..."
"Only [X]% of people know this..."

8. Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

"Everyone's doing this wrong except..."
"The secret [industry/experts] don't want you to know..."
"This hack is going viral for a reason..."
"You need to see this before it's too late..."

Read the full file on GitHub · 283 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. yesterday First seen · 283 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 2ef9f51a38cc

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video-hook-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/ai-workflow (282 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,999 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 2026-09-03.