viral-shorts-course

viral-shorts-course is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from S3YED/appie-kit. It costs 34 tokens per session (6,400 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide for making short videos for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok. It summarises recurring patterns from creators and flags advice where the sources disagree.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan short-form videos, choose openings, structure content, and evaluate advice about getting more views and keeping viewers watching.
Why use it?
It helps creators make choices about hooks, structure, and viewer attention without relying only on personal guesses or isolated tips.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to plan short-form videos, choose openings, structure content, and evaluate advice about getting more views and keeping viewers watching.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/s3yed/appie-kit/viral-shorts-course
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 S3YED/appie-kit --skill viral-shorts-course
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/S3YED/appie-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,400 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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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 $0.00034 $0.06400
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.03200
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00640

Measured 9d ago against content hash a85b7455500a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

viral-shorts-course 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 9d 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/content/viral-shorts-course/SKILL.md · 374 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 374 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

viral-shorts-course Skill v2

Purpose

Decision framework for creating YouTube Shorts (and Reels / TikTok) that go viral consistently. Cross-referenced from 5 creators with verified analytics track records. Only patterns appearing in 3+ sources are promoted to "consensus principles." Conflicting advice is flagged explicitly.


Sources

# Creator Credential Content Analyzed Views on Content Duration
1 Jenny Hoyos Avg 10M views/short; 600M+ views/yr; personal channel Interview with Jay Clouse (Creator Science) 4.6M views 38:14
2 Logan Smith 2.3M views on methodology video; 0→10K subs in 3 weeks (own data) "How to make shorts that go viral every time" + "How to get retention SO HIGH" 2.4M + 272K 9:41 + 11:16
3 heyDominik (Dominik Rieger) Agency founder; 28M views in 45 days for a client from 0 followers; 500+ creators worked with "I Studied 1,000 Hooks" + "Blew Up Instagram to 30M Views in 40 Days" 540K + 34K 20:06 + 20:56
4 MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) 200M+ subscribers; most-subscribed individual on YouTube; production memo internally verified by Business Insider Leaked 36-page internal production document (Sep 2024) N/A (internal doc) ~36 pages
5 Colin and Samir 1.5M subs; 445M views; interview the top creators; run YouTube-native education "How To Win on YouTube in 2026" (interview with Jay Acunzo) 29K 56:14

Analytics filter rationale:

  • Jenny Hoyos: personal shorts average 10M views, verified by channel analytics
  • Logan Smith: own experiment data (0→10K in 3 weeks vs 4 months on first channel)
  • heyDominik: documented client case study, 28M views in 45 days from zero, public breakdown
  • MrBeast: largest individual YouTube channel in existence; memo describes what actually runs at scale
  • Colin and Samir: meta-analysts who interview top creators and publish data-backed frameworks

Read the full file on GitHub · 374 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. 9d ago First seen · 374 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A a85b7455500a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

viral-shorts-course is a skill published in the GitHub repository S3YED/appie-kit (9 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 6,400 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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