Agent skill

Narrative Hook Engine

by BingHanOfUESTC in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team

Short-story opening and narrative pull craft. An agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Narrative Hook Engine

skills CLI
$ npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill narrative-hook-engine -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team narrative-hook-engine --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/teams/story_team/skills/narrative-hook-engine .claude/skills/narrative-hook-engine && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
narrative-hook-engine
GitHub stars
106
Token cost
~260 tokens
SKILL.md length
18 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
30
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Short-story opening and narrative pull craft. An agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

  • Works in 5 steps: 有效开头的四种钩子 → 开头必须制造的阅读问题 → 短篇开头禁区 → …
  • Revising the first paragraph
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Early story promise so the reader has a concrete reason to continue

What it does

Narrative Hook Engine is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Short-story opening and narrative pull craft. Use when designing, drafting, critiquing, or revising the first paragraph, first page, and early story promise so the reader has a concrete reason to continue.

Its SKILL.md is about 260 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Creative writing and fiction. The repository describes itself as: Build persistent multi-agent teams that collaborate like real organizations to deliver complex tasks. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Revising the first paragraph
  • Early story promise so the reader has a concrete reason to continue

Example prompts

  • “/narrative-hook-engine”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. 有效开头的四种钩子
  2. 开头必须制造的阅读问题
  3. 短篇开头禁区
  4. 开头返修方法
  5. 自检

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7e28736. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Narrative Hook Engine loads about 260 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 18 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~260

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team at commit 7e28736, republished under its MIT licence (© BingHanOfUESTC). 18 words, ~260 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/narrative-hook-engine/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
narrative-hook-engine
description
Short-story opening and narrative pull craft. Use when designing, drafting, critiquing, or revising the first paragraph, first page, and early story promise so the reader has a concrete reason to continue.
type
reference
model-invocable
false

Narrative Hook Engine

短篇的开头不是“介绍背景”,而是建立阅读债务:读者必须得到一个异常、一种压力、一个带刺的声音,或一个不读下去就无法解决的问题。


1. 有效开头的四种钩子

text
异常钩子:日常秩序里出现不该出现的东西。
冲突钩子:人物一出场就在承受压力或做出选择。
声音钩子:叙述者的判断、偏见、隐瞒或语气本身有吸引力。
细节钩子:一个具体到无法被泛化的物件、动作或场面,让读者相信这里有生活。

最强开头通常同时具备两种以上。


2. 开头必须制造的阅读问题

第一段至少要让读者问出一个具体问题:

text
这件异常为什么发生?
这个人为什么这样做?
他在隐瞒什么?
这段关系哪里不对?
如果他不立刻行动,会失去什么?

如果读者只能问“所以呢”,开头失败。


3. 短篇开头禁区

text
先讲世界观
先讲人物履历
先讲天气和城市气氛
先讲抽象主题
先用梦、回忆、醒来、镜子里的自己
先用一句漂亮但无行动压力的哲理句

不是绝对不能写,而是必须有额外理由。默认重写。


4. 开头返修方法

text
把解释换成现场动作
把背景换成当前麻烦
把“他是什么样的人”换成“他正在做什么难堪的事”
把抽象情绪换成一个暴露处境的具体细节
把主题句延后到故事已经让读者自己感觉到之后
删除前三段,检查第四段是否才是真开头

5. 自检

text
第一句是否有不可替代的信息或声音?
第一段是否已经出现压力?
第一页是否已经让主角失去一点东西?
读者是否能在 20 秒内复述“这个故事哪里不对劲”?

© BingHanOfUESTC, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in teams/story_team/skills/narrative-hook-engine of BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7e28736

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Questions about Narrative Hook Engine

What does Narrative Hook Engine do?

Short-story opening and narrative pull craft. An agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Narrative Hook Engine is an agent skill from BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team. Short-story opening and narrative pull craft.

When should I use Narrative Hook Engine?

Narrative Hook Engine fits situations like: revising the first paragraph; early story promise so the reader has a concrete reason to continue.

How do I install Narrative Hook Engine in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill narrative-hook-engine -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (teams/story_team/skills/narrative-hook-engine in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team) into .claude/skills/narrative-hook-engine in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Narrative Hook Engine in Codex?

Run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill narrative-hook-engine -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (teams/story_team/skills/narrative-hook-engine in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team) into .agents/skills/narrative-hook-engine in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Narrative Hook Engine in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team --skill narrative-hook-engine -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/narrative-hook-engine, .gemini/skills/narrative-hook-engine, .github/skills/narrative-hook-engine and .opencode/skills/narrative-hook-engine in your project.

What does Narrative Hook Engine need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Narrative Hook Engine is instructions for the agent only.

Does Narrative Hook Engine access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Narrative Hook Engine safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Narrative Hook Engine use?

Narrative Hook Engine is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Narrative Hook Engine use?

About 260 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Narrative Hook Engine?

BingHanOfUESTC (a GitHub user) maintains it in BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team, which has 106 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 23, 2026.

Source: BingHanOfUESTC/open_agent_team on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.