Agent skill

Headline Options

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Generate and pressure-test headline options across proven formulas.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Headline Options

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill headline-options -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills headline-options --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/headline-options .claude/skills/headline-options && 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
headline-options
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~803 tokens
SKILL.md length
383 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Generate and pressure-test headline options across proven formulas.

  • Asked for headlines
  • SKILL.md covers Required Inputs, Output Format, Quality Checks and Anti-Patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Improve a weak headline for a page

What it does

Headline Options is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Generate and pressure-test headline options across proven formulas. Use when asked for headlines, a title, a subject line, a hook, or to improve a weak headline for a page, post, email, or ad. Produces 10–15 headline options grouped by formula (benefit, how-to, number, question, curiosity, social proof), each scored for clarity and specificity, with the top 3 recommended and why.

Its SKILL.md is about 800 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 Marketing & SEO, covering Marketing psychology. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked for headlines
  • Improve a weak headline for a page

Example prompts

  • “/headline-options”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

Headline Options loads about 803 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 383 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~803

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 383 words, ~803 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/headline-options/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
headline-options
description
Generate and pressure-test headline options across proven formulas. Use when asked for headlines, a title, a subject line, a hook, or to improve a weak headline for a page, post, email, or ad. Produces 10–15 headline options grouped by formula (benefit, how-to, number, question, curiosity, social proof), each scored for clarity and specificity, with the top 3 recommended and why.

Headline Options Skill

The headline does 80% of the work — most people read it and decide. This skill generates a range of headlines across proven formulas (so you're not betting on one), scores them for clarity and specificity (the two things that actually drive clicks), and recommends the strongest — for a landing page, blog post, email subject, ad, or video title.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • What it's for — landing-page H1, blog title, email subject, ad headline, YouTube title? (changes length + style).
  • The subject — the product/post/offer and its single biggest benefit or hook.
  • Audience — who reads it, and the words they'd use.
  • Any constraint — character limit (subject lines, ad fields), tone, banned claims.

Output Format

Headlines: [subject] — for [where it's used]

Options by formula (10–15 total), grouped:

  • Benefit — the outcome, stated plainly ("Ship your roadmap in an afternoon")
  • How-to — ("How to cut churn without discounting")
  • Number / list — ("7 ways teams lose activation")
  • Question — ("Still building decks by hand?")
  • Curiosity / pattern-interrupt — (a gap that demands the click, without clickbait)
  • Social proof / authority — ("How 5,000 teams onboard faster")

Score each on Clarity and Specificity (1–5), since vague + clever loses to clear + specific:

HeadlineFormulaClaritySpecificNote

Top 3 picks — the strongest, with one line each on why, and which to A/B first.

If subject-line / limited — flag any that exceed the character budget.

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Quality Checks

  • 10+ options spanning multiple distinct formulas (not variations of one)
  • Each scored on clarity and specificity, not cleverness
  • Top picks are recommended with reasoning + an A/B suggestion
  • Options use the audience's language and the real benefit
  • Character limits respected where the medium demands it

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not favour clever over clear — a confusing headline isn't read twice; clarity wins
  • Do not write clickbait the content can't pay off — the bounce destroys trust and SEO
  • Do not give one-formula variations — the value is the spread to test
  • Do not stay vague — "Transform your workflow" says nothing; name the specific outcome
  • Do not ignore the medium's limit — a truncated subject line is a wasted headline

Based On

Headline-writing practice (Ogilvy, Advertising's clarity-over-cleverness, the 4 U's) + formula-driven ideation and A/B discipline.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Write headline options for this page."
  • "Give me subject lines for this email."
  • "Improve this weak headline."
  • "Write a hook for this ad."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/headline-options of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Headline Options

What does Headline Options do?

Generate and pressure-test headline options across proven formulas. Headline Options is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Generate and pressure-test headline options across proven formulas.

When should I use Headline Options?

Headline Options fits situations like: asked for headlines; improve a weak headline for a page.

How do I install Headline Options in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill headline-options -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/headline-options in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/headline-options in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Headline Options in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill headline-options -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/headline-options in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/headline-options in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Headline Options 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill headline-options -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/headline-options, .gemini/skills/headline-options, .github/skills/headline-options and .opencode/skills/headline-options in your project.

What does Headline Options need to run?

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

Does Headline Options 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 Headline Options 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 Headline Options use?

Headline Options 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 Headline Options use?

About 803 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Headline Options?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Headline Options: Marketing Psychology (freekmurze/dotfiles, 1k stars), Cold Email Sequence Generator (nicepkg/auto-company, 195 stars), Ugc (fal-ai-community/skills, 251 stars) and Landing Optimizer (aaron-he-zhu/aaron-marketing-skills, 2.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Headline Options?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.