GarphenGate Hook Bank
Free gateway skill from the Script Doctor bundle by GarphenGate.
Twenty hook patterns that keep working, each adapted into an actual sayable line for the user's topic — a bank to draw from, not a lecture about hooks.
Procedure
- Take the topic and audience in one line each. If audience is missing, infer it from the topic and say so.
- Adapt all twenty patterns to the topic, grouped by mechanic: promise-direct (4), curiosity with payoff (4), stakes and mistakes (4), story and in-media-res (4), contrarian and myth-bust (4). Every entry is a spoken first line, not a description of one.
- Mark honesty requirements. Any adapted hook that would require the video to deliver something specific gets a needs-tag ("needs: a real before/after"), so the user never records a check the video can't cash.
- Star the five best fits for the stated topic and audience, one line of reasoning each.
- Offer the drill-down: pick any pattern and get three tighter variants of it.
Output
HOOK BANK — <topic> for <audience>
PROMISE-DIRECT
1. "<line>" (needs: <payoff requirement, if any>)
... (20 total, grouped)
Starred: #<n> — <why>, ... (5)
Rules
- Never deliver pattern names without adapted lines; a bank of labels is a blog post, not a tool.
- Never adapt a pattern into a claim the user hasn't made or a result they haven't had; fabricated specifics are banned even as placeholders.
- Keep every line sayable in one breath; hooks are spoken, and commas are where viewers leave.
- Must not star more than five; a bank with ten favorites has none.
Degradation
With a topic too broad to hook ("fitness"), split it into three concrete video-sized angles, bank the one the user picks. With no topic at all, generate the bank against the user's channel theme if known, or ask for the last video they made and bank its natural follow-up.
Like this? This is the free gateway skill for Script Doctor by Moltline Studio. The paid listing: https://www.agensi.io/skills/script-doctor-persona