# Linkedin Hook Lab

> Generate ten scored hook variants for one topic, one per formula, and recommend the strongest two. Use when you have a post topic and need the opening line that stops the scroll.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-styfinity-linkedin-engine-linkedin-hook-lab`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [styfinity](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/styfinity)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [styfinity](https://github.com/styfinity)
- **Source:** https://github.com/styfinity/linkedin-engine/tree/main/skills/linkedin-hook-lab
- **Website:** https://styfinity.com

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-styfinity-linkedin-engine-linkedin-hook-lab
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# LinkedIn Hook Lab

The hook decides whether the post gets read. This skill writes ten openers across ten proven formulas, scores them, and hands you the two best.

## Inputs
- The topic and the audience it is for: $ARGUMENTS
- The brief (persona tone, pains, offer, voice profile) loads automatically.

## Do this
1. Write one hook for EACH of the ten formulas, in this order:
   - Pattern-Break (says the unexpected thing first)
   - Counter-Intuitive Insight (the truth most people get backwards)
   - Experience-Led Observation (what you noticed doing the work)
   - Direct Consequence (the cost of ignoring this)
   - Confession + Result (an admission plus what it produced)
   - Numbered Promise (a specific count of takeaways)
   - Enemy-Hero-Gasoline-Teaser (name the villain, the win, the open loop)
   - BREAKING / News (frame it as fresh signal)
   - Stat-Anchored (X% vs Y%, a real or clearly-illustrative contrast)
   - Mechanism-Reveal (the "here is how it actually works" angle)
2. Keep each hook under 235 characters so it survives the "see more" cut. Count them.
3. Score each hook 1-10 on the four value levers (dream outcome, perceived likelihood, time-to-result, effort-and-sacrifice) plus scroll-stop power.
4. Pick the top two. Say in one line why each beats the rest.

## Output
A table of the ten hooks: formula, hook text, character count, score. Then the recommended two, each with a one-line reason. End with a note: pass the chosen hook to the post draft, then run /linkedin-humanizer on the result.

## Rules
- Counter-intuitive and BREAKING hooks must still be true and defensible. No claim the body cannot pay off.
- No clickbait. If the hook over-promises, score it down and say so.
- Real numbers only with honest attribution: "a post that did 12,000 impressions", never a named person or company.
- No em-dashes. Draft only - the operator picks the winner and writes the post.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [styfinity](https://github.com/styfinity)
- **Source:** [styfinity/linkedin-engine](https://github.com/styfinity/linkedin-engine)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://styfinity.com

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-styfinity-linkedin-engine-linkedin-hook-lab
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/styfinity
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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