What do I need to use Hook Writer?

The topic / the content; Platform & format; Audience.

Is Hook Writer free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Hook Writer

Q: How do I know the Hook Writer output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Multiple genuinely different angles, not variations of one line; Each hook is specific (names, numbers, stakes), not vague; Top picks match the platform's length and norms; No clickbait that the content can't pay off — the hook must be honest.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-creator

Generate scroll-stopping hooks — the first line of a post, thread, video, or email that decides whether anyone keeps reading. Use when asked to write a hook, an opener, a first line, a thread starter, a video cold-open, or to make something more clickable. Produces multiple distinct hook options across proven angles (curiosity, contrarian, result, story, stakes), each labelled with why it works and which platform it fits.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Write a hook.”“Write the first line of this post.”“Write a cold open for this video.”“Make this thread starter more clickable.”

What to give it

▸The topic / the content — the hook is for

▸Platform & format — X, LinkedIn, YouTube title, Reel cold-open, email subject

▸Audience — and the payoff (what they get if they keep reading)

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Multiple genuinely different angles, not variations of one line

✓Each hook is specific (names, numbers, stakes), not vague

✓Top picks match the platform's length and norms

✓No clickbait that the content can't pay off — the hook must be honest

✓The teardown gives a reusable mechanism

⚠️ What it refuses to do

"Here's everything you need to know about X" (zero tension)

Ten rewrites of the same hook

Clickbait the body betrays (kills trust + reach long-term)

Hooks too long for the platform (a 90-char YouTube title, a 3-line "first line")

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="hook-writer"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

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