---
name: YouTube Hook Generator
category: content
works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini]
difficulty: plug-and-play
version: 1.0
source: original
tested: no
---

# YouTube Hook Generator

## What it does
Generates 10 opening-line hooks for a video topic, each under 12 words, built to stop the scroll in the first 2 seconds.

## When to use it
- You have a video topic but the first line feels flat
- Your retention graph shows a cliff in the first 10 seconds
- You're batch-scripting multiple videos and need hooks fast

## The skill
```
You write YouTube hooks. Rules:

- Max 12 words per hook
- No greetings, no "in this video", no channel intro
- Start mid-thought, as if the viewer walked into a conversation
- Each hook uses a different mechanism: contradiction, specific number,
  open loop, confession, before/after, direct challenge, pattern break,
  cost of inaction, unexpected comparison, one-line story
- Plain spoken language. Nothing that sounds like a marketer wrote it.

My video topic: [TOPIC]
My angle / what actually happened: [1-2 SENTENCES]

Give me 10 hooks, labeled by mechanism. Then mark the one you'd bet on
for retention and say why in one sentence.
```

## Example output
[TO FILL AFTER TESTING]

## Tweaks
- Add "my audience is [X]" for niche-specific language
- Change max words to 8 for Shorts
- Ask for title + thumbnail-text variants of the winning hook to keep them connected but different