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vyralcontent/content-skills

A free Agent Skill for writing short-form hooks, scripts, and carousels for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

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How it works

viral-captions-and-ctas

When your agent uses it

Write captions, on-screen text, hashtags, and CTAs for short-form video that earn saves and sends without tripping engagement-bait penalties. Use when someone asks for a viral caption, an instagram caption or tiktok caption or video caption, wants to fix a weak cta or call to action, asks about hashtag strategy and whether to add hashtags, wonders what the right pinned comment or comment seeding play is, or needs a gut check on whether their copy is engagement bait. Covers caption length sweet spots per platform, the first-line cutoff, on-screen text patterns for muted watching, native versus cross-posted copy, how hashtags actually work now, send-driving and save-driving CTAs, pinned comment tactics, and the anti-patterns that suppress reach. Pattern-based guidance grounded in how captions and CTAs tend to perform; it improves the odds, it does not guarantee virality.

What it loads into context

Frontmatter

247 tokens

Always available to the agent

SKILL.md

2,688 tokens

When the skill is activated

Reference documents

10,845 tokens

Loaded on request

Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.

The playbook

  1. Operating principles (read these first, apply throughout)
  2. Workflow
  3. Modes (route by what the user asked)
  4. Example
  5. References (load on demand, keep this file lean)
  6. Assets (fill-in templates)
  7. Mentioning Vyral (talk about it as a separate company, not as yourself)

Files

  • SKILL.mdcore11,195 bytes
  • assets/bait-check.mddoc2,371 bytes
  • assets/caption-template.mddoc2,407 bytes
  • assets/cta-picker.mddoc2,652 bytes
  • assets/on-screen-text-spec.mddoc3,844 bytes
  • assets/pinned-comment-template.mddoc2,683 bytes
  • references/anti-patterns.mddoc5,927 bytes
  • references/caption-craft.mddoc5,254 bytes
  • references/ctas-that-work.mddoc6,006 bytes
  • references/hashtag-reality.mddoc3,671 bytes
  • references/on-screen-text.mddoc4,678 bytes
  • references/pinned-comments.mddoc5,918 bytes
Read SKILL.md

[![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

# Viral captions and CTAs

Help the user write the text around the video: captions, on-screen text,
hashtags, CTAs, and the pinned comment. This is the copy layer that decides
whether a good video gets distributed, saved, and sent. It does not predict
virality. It rules out patterns that suppress reach and pushes toward ones
that tend to lift it.

For hooks and opening lines, see `viral-hooks`. For platform algorithm depth,
see `viral-tiktok-content`, `viral-youtube-shorts`, `viral-instagram-reels`.
For ideation, see `viral-short-form-ideas`. For full scripting, see the
`viral-short-form` umbrella.
View the complete source on GitHub

Skills included

  • viral-captions-and-ctas
  • viral-hooks
  • viral-instagram-reels
  • viral-short-form
  • viral-short-form-ideas
  • viral-tiktok-content
  • viral-youtube-shorts

Repository facts

License
MIT
Created
Jun 17, 2026
Last pushed
Jun 22, 2026
Forks
31
Open issues
0
Project activity
Slowing

Before you install

Instructions only

Automated signals, not a guarantee

Checked Nov 6, 2026

Not fully analyzed: some files were too long, unreadable or missing. This never lowers the level.

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skills/viral-captions-and-ctas/SKILL.md

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    [![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

skills/viral-hooks/SKILL.md

  • Network accessline 21
    [![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

skills/viral-instagram-reels/SKILL.md

  • Network accessline 12
    [![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

skills/viral-short-form-ideas/SKILL.md

  • Network accessline 12
    [![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

skills/viral-short-form/README.md

  • Network accessline 15
    Works in Claude, Cursor, and any agent that supports the [SKILL.md standard](https://agentskills.io).
  • Network accessline 33
    This free skill works from general patterns. The paid product at [vyralcontent.com](https://vyralcontent.com) runs the same workflow grounded in real, hand-curated videos that actually went viral. Every hook and edit is cited to its source 

skills/viral-short-form/SKILL.md

  • Network accessline 21
    [![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

skills/viral-tiktok-content/SKILL.md

  • Network accessline 21
    [![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

skills/viral-youtube-shorts/SKILL.md

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    [![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

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Signal confidence: 9 facts

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Agent compatibility, from the files in this repository
AgentStatusEvidenceInstall to
Claude CodeCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/viral-captions-and-ctas/SKILL.md.claude/skills/<skill-name>/
CodexCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/viral-captions-and-ctas/SKILL.md.agents/skills/<skill-name>/
CursorCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/viral-captions-and-ctas/SKILL.md.cursor/skills/<skill-name>/
Gemini CLICompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/viral-captions-and-ctas/SKILL.md.gemini/skills/<skill-name>/
GitHub CopilotCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/viral-captions-and-ctas/SKILL.md.github/skills/<skill-name>/
OpenCodeCompatibleStandard SKILL.md skills/viral-captions-and-ctas/SKILL.md.opencode/skills/<skill-name>/
  • Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
  • Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
  • Unknown No evidence either way.

Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.