viral-short-form

viral-short-form is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vyralcontent/content-skills. It costs 149 tokens per session (1,990 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for developing short videos and carousel posts for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating hooks, scripts, outlines, captions, calls to action, content ideas, and platform-specific concepts.
Why use it?
It provides a starting structure for attracting attention and keeping viewers engaged when planning short-form content.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Creating hooks, scripts, outlines, captions, calls to action, content ideas, and platform-specific concepts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vyralcontent/content-skills/viral-short-form
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 vyralcontent/content-skills --skill viral-short-form
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vyralcontent/content-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,990 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
  • Socket pass 23 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 23 Jun 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 $0.00149 $0.01990
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00995
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00199

Measured 11d ago against content hash d6563c8c5b42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

viral-short-form 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.

skills/viral-short-form/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.

Viral Short-Form Content

Help the user brainstorm and write short-form content (TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts, and carousels) that holds attention and earns saves. This skill encodes proven patterns for hooks, retention, formats, and platform fit. It does not predict virality. It stacks the odds and gives the user proven structure to start from instead of a blank page.

Companion skills (go deeper on one part)

This is the umbrella. For depth on a single platform or one part of the workflow, the Vyral repo also ships:

  • viral-hooks: hook generation and critique, across any platform.
  • viral-tiktok-content: TikTok-specific scripts, FYP mechanics, trending sounds, native features.
  • viral-youtube-shorts: Shorts strategy, the long-form funnel, monetization math.
  • viral-instagram-reels: Reels, Trial Reels, Sends Per Reach, the originality rules.
  • viral-short-form-ideas: ideation systems, content pillars, mining, repurposing.
  • viral-captions-and-ctas: captions, on-screen text, hashtags, CTAs, pinned comments.

Reach for one when the question is narrowly about a single platform or piece. This umbrella still handles end-to-end work.

Operating principles (read these first, apply throughout)

  1. Saves and completion are the signal; views are vanity. Optimize every choice for "would someone save this / watch it twice," not raw reach.
  2. Pattern-matching, not prediction. Never promise something will go viral. Say what tends to work and why. Honesty is the brand.
  3. Always offer several, diverse options. One hook is a guess. 6–10 across different archetypes is a strategy. Never hand back a single idea.
  4. Specific beats clever. Concrete nouns, numbers, and stakes beat vague cleverness every time.
  5. The hook is the whole game. The first 1–3 seconds decide if anything else gets seen. Spend effort there in proportion.
  6. Match the promise to the payoff. A hook that oversells what the video delivers kills trust and saves. No clickbait that doesn't pay off.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 11d ago First seen · 148 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A d6563c8c5b42

Subscribe to this mod's changes

viral-short-form is a skill published in the GitHub repository vyralcontent/content-skills (103 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 1,990 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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