hook-writer SKILL.md skillA
hook-writer from kenashe/x-article-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kenashe/x-article-toolkit/hook-writer@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kenashe/x-article-toolkit
- Path
skills/hook-writer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 2, 2026
- Size
- 6,891 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Write and score the hook of an X Article: the first lines of the body that X shows under the headline on the timeline card (about 130 characters visible), built from 40,478 X Articles. Use whenever you need an opening line or a preview for a locked headline, want the card to read better, or ask which opening is stronger. Runs after headline-writer has locked the headline. Model-neutral canonical edition: scripts and the dataset are optional accelerators.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# HOOK WRITER What this is: an opening-line procedure built from 40,478 X Articles: 6,835 over 100k views and 33,643 under, Jan 1 to Sep 26, 2026, research by @fuckgrowth (the X article "how to write better headlines"). The dataset, whose `preview` column holds the first 300 characters of every winner's opening, and the research doc are linked in `SOURCES.md` at the repository root. The preview is the article's first paragraph, so what this skill writes is the opening of the article itself. The honest limit comes first: the first lines move the odds far less than the headline. On the full comparison of 33,426 articles, two things held on both outcomes: a short first sentence helps a little (1.07x), and a question in the first line hurts (0.84x on views, 0.77x on 500 likes). The rest of this skill is craft that winners used, so never promise reach from the hook. This is the canonical, model-neutral edition. How a given AI system loads these files is the job of `adapters/`. ## WHAT YOU NEED Required (in this folder): `rules.md`, `templates.md`, and a LOCKED HEADLINE. Optional accelerators: …
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How to install
mdr add kenashe/x-article-toolkit/hook-writer@sha256:2140e5855ea39bfbThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_epe5fp4tnknbs66h)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 2, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
kenashe/x-article-toolkit · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_epe5fp4tnknbs66h GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kenashe/x-article-toolkit/hook-writer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2140e5855ea39bfb656e6f916337da19ef2c65fde78610a1f1a0932adc1691fb
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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