The Hook
Engine.
A senior hook strategist for Claude. Generates 50 to 100 candidates. Ships the shortlist with a test plan.
Six drill drawers. Four sequential approval gates including a non-negotiable Voice Profile lock. The skill refuses to generate a single hook until the brief and voice are set. The output is not "ten clever lines"; it's a tested shortlist with an A/B test plan and a lifecycle plan for when each hook gets retired.
Works across LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok scripts, YouTube titles plus thumbnails, podcast episode titles, video ad openers, viral post campaigns.
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Installs in Claude in under 5 minutes · Works in Claude Pro, Team, Code
Everything Claude needs to run it.
Every file Claude needs to run the methodology: the skill, the tactics, the outputs, and the support docs. Nothing missing. Nothing to write yourself.
11 files across 3 categories.
Installs into Claude
- The skill file Claude installs
Method files
- Six drill files: audience, concept, generation, templates, test, scale
- Three intake files: hook-brief, voice-profile, drill-patterns
- Three output specs
- Hooks writing-rules file
Support docs
- README
- Install guide
- Usage guide
- Example outputs
- Licence
- Terms of service
The brief-and-voice gate, in action.
Describe your situation and The Hook Engine will respond the way it would inside Claude. It runs intake first, then delivers — so give it real details for a real result.
- 1 credit = 1 message. A credit is only spent when a reply is delivered — failed replies cost nothing.
- Credits work across all skills and never expire.
- This is a trimmed trial run — the full skill goes much deeper (more variants, more candidates, full deliverables).
- The skill will first ask for the inputs it needs — give it real details for a real result.
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Five moves. Four gates. No generation before the voice is locked.
The most common failure of AI-generated hooks is volume without voice. The skill is built to prevent that. Brief locks first. Voice locks second. Only then does generation begin.
Capture the hook task.
Capture the hook task.
The platform, the audience, the conversion goal, the lifecycle. What this hook actually has to do.
Lock the voice.
Lock the voice.
Builds or loads the brand's voice fingerprint. Non-negotiable. No generation begins without it.
Run the drills. 50 to 100 candidates.
Run the drills. 50 to 100 candidates.
Pulls inputs in conversation. Generates the hook pool. Sorts and shortlists. Halts so you can redirect.
Score and rank.
Score and rank.
Tests against the 10 qualities of a great hook. Drops what fails. Keeps the shortlist tight.
Final hooks plus A/B plan.
Final hooks plus A/B plan.
The shortlist with A/B test pairings, lifecycle plan, and scale-out logic for repurposing across channels.
Four sequential artefacts. Each one a gate.
Brief. Voice. Pool. Final. Approval before each next step.
The Hook Brief
The real task, named.
Platform, audience, conversion goal, lifecycle, constraints. Halts the work.
The Voice Profile
Locked before generation.
Fingerprint of the brand voice. Signature phrases, rhythm, banned words. Non-negotiable.
The Hook Pool
50 to 100 candidates.
Sorted by angle. Pre-scored. Shortlisted into the top 10 by quality. Halts so you can pick or redirect.
The Final Hooks
Ready to test.
Final shortlist with A/B pairings, lifecycle plan, and platform-shaped variants for scale-out.
What buyers say.
Pick the drill that matches the channel.
Six drill drawers. Each one handles a specific stage of the hook job. The skill reaches into the right combination for the platform and lifecycle.
Audience.
Drills for naming who the hook has to stop. The specific person, the moment they're in, what they're scrolling away from.
When "everyone on LinkedIn" is the answer.
Concept.
Drills for finding the angle. The If/Then formula. The Pattern Interrupt. The Curiosity Gap. The Named Pattern reveal.
When the hook keeps sounding like an opinion.
Generation.
Drills for producing 50 to 100 candidates fast. Variation across angle, structure, length, and tone.
When ten hooks is "all you can think of."
Templates.
Drills using viral post templates as structural beat patterns. Not for copying. For pressure-testing the candidates against proven shapes.
When the format isn't working.
Test.
Drills for scoring against the 10 qualities of a great hook. Tested formulas, comparison drills, and the "would I scroll past this myself" check.
When everything looks fine and nothing is great.
Scale.
Drills for cross-channel reuse. One hook, six platform-shaped variants. Lifecycle plan for when each one retires.
When one good hook needs to feed a content engine.
Built for the people doing the work, not watching it.
For you
- Founders posting on LinkedIn who keep getting "fine" engagement and want "wait, this stopped me" engagement.
- Content teams running channels and tired of the open landing soft.
- Marketers running paid social where the hook is the entire CTR.
- Podcast hosts naming episodes and writing video thumbnails.
- Anyone with a body of work that gets ignored because the opener is weak.
Not for you
- People who want "viral hooks" without doing the brief work first.
- Anyone hoping Claude will reverse-engineer engagement from no inputs.
- Brands that don't have a voice yet.
- People who want clickbait. The skill generates hooks for actual posts you can deliver on.
- Anyone who wants to skip the voice profile.
Pair it with the four other skills.
The questions that come up before buying.
Install the hook strategist that won't generate before the voice is set.
One purchase. Lifetime access. Six drills. Four gates. The shortlist plus the test plan.
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