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Hook Machine

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: education-learning  ·  Last updated:
Data-driven hook engine. Analyzes the owner's top vs. bottom-performing content to extract winning hook principles, banks them as a persistent grading rubric calibrated to the owner's audience, then generates and grades hooks for new topics. Source-agnostic ingestion (paste, CSV export from LinkedIn/X analytics, or fetch X posts via the scrape skill) with no third-party data platform required. Use when building or refreshing a hook rubric, analyzing why hooks win or lose, generating data-backed hooks for a topic, or grading and rewriting a draft hook. For a quick one-off hook that needs no performance data or grading, use the writing skill instead. Triggers - 'build my hook rubric', 'refresh the hook rubric', 'analyze my best hooks', 'hook machine', 'why do my hooks win', 'generate hooks for', 'grade this hook', 'rewrite this hook'.
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From the source SKILL.md

A data-driven engine that learns what makes the owner's hooks win, banks it as a reusable rubric, and uses that rubric to generate and grade new hooks. Pure Claude Code: every step is reading and reasoning over content the owner already has. No paid data platform, no MCP dependency.

What this skill does

Hook Machine is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the education-learning sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hook-machine/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when building or refreshing a hook rubric, analyzing why hooks win or lose, generating data-backed hooks for a topic, or grading and rewriting a draft hook. For a quick one-off hook that needs no performance data or grading, use the writing skill instead.

Who uses this skill

The Hook Machine Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 149,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hook-machine
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hook-machine/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hook-machine/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/hook-machine/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/hook-machine/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\hook-machine\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Hook Machine Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/hook-machine/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Hook Machine skill do?
Data-driven hook engine. Analyzes the owner's top vs. bottom-performing content to extract winning hook principles, banks them as a persistent grading rubric calibrated to the owner's audience, then generates and grades hooks for new topics. Source-agnostic ingestion (paste, CSV export from LinkedIn/X analytics, or fetch X posts via the scrape skill) with no third-party data platform required. Use when building or refreshing a hook rubric, analyzing why hooks win or lose, generating data-backed hooks for a topic, or grading and rewriting a draft hook. For a quick one-off hook that needs no performance data or grading, use the writing skill instead. Triggers - 'build my hook rubric', 'refresh the hook rubric', 'analyze my best hooks', 'hook machine', 'why do my hooks win', 'generate hooks for', 'grade this hook', 'rewrite this hook'.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Hook Machine skill?
Use Hook Machine when your Claude Code task falls under the General category — specifically in the education learning area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Hook Machine" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/general/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Hook Machine skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Hook Machine is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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Mattyreed1. (2026). Hook Machine [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/hook-machine/
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@misc{hook-machine-2026,
  author    = {Mattyreed1},
  title     = {Hook Machine [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/hook-machine/}
}

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