Viral Youtube Shorts

Built for the gap between "I posted a Short" and "that Short fed my long-form." The skill treats the Shorts Feed as its own algorithm, since Shorts and long-form recommendations now run in separate lanes, so it judges each Short on VVSA, the first 3 seconds, and the retention curve rather than channel size. It pushes a "watch the full video" bridge over a generic subscribe CTA, and it flags when there's no relevant long-form to link to yet. The monetization pass is the most concrete part: it works through the licensed-music revenue split and Engaged Views versus raw Views. Its diagnosis mode asks for VVSA and the opening retention before guessing at causes, which is the right instinct. It's pattern-based guidance, not a viral formula, and it says so.

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$ npx -y skills add vyralcontent/content-skills --skill viral-youtube-shorts --agent claude-code

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Viral YouTube Shorts

Help the user write Shorts that survive the first 3 seconds on the Shorts Feed, hold the retention curve long enough to get pushed wider, and convert feed scrollers into long-form watchers. This skill is YouTube Shorts only. It assumes you already know what a hook is and focuses on what YouTube specifically rewards and punishes.

For cross-platform hook craft, see viral-hooks. For ideation systems, see viral-short-form-ideas. For caption and on-screen text craft, see viral-captions-and-ctas. For TikTok or Reels, see those skills.