Nobody Scrolls Past a Bad Script. They Scroll Past a Bad First Second.

This is the TikTok version of a pack I already wrote up for LinkedIn. Same builder, same MIT license, same shape: it drafts, it audits, it hands the result back to you, and nothing posts until you approve it. If you live in Claude Code and post short video, it is worth ten minutes.

01. Why this exists

the script is the cheap part now

The builder's line, repeated across every pack in this family: "writing collapsed to the price of a chat subscription." A TikTok script is easy to write. Whether the video gets watched is decided in the first second and by whether the trend fits you.

these skills sit on that. They script the opening beat by beat, check a trending sound against your niche, and turn a week of ideas into a batching plan.

Nobody scrolls past a bad script. They scroll past a bad first second.

02. What you actually get

one install, no coding

The skills load into Claude Code or Codex and trigger when you ask for something TikTok-shaped. You never call them by name.

03. Install it

a plugin marketplace, no coding

It ships as a plugin. Add the marketplace, install the pack, and the skills are live in your next session.

# Claude Code (CLI, Desktop, Web, IDEs)
/plugin marketplace add sergebulaev/tiktok-skills
/plugin install tiktok-skills@tiktok-skills

# Codex CLI
codex plugin marketplace add sergebulaev/tiktok-skills
codex plugin add tiktok-skills@tiktok-skills

# any other agent
npx skills add sergebulaev/tiktok-skills

Nothing else is required. The optional keys in section 6 only matter if you want it to schedule posts or generate cover art.

04. The loop: draft, audit, approve

the approve step is the job

The flow is always the same. You describe the video. Hook Scripter drafts the opening, Caption Writer drafts the caption, Trend Mapper checks the sound. Humanizer scores the script and flags the lines that read as written by a machine. Then it stops and shows you everything. Nothing posts until you say so.

Paste without reading and you post like everyone else running the same tool. The gate is where your judgment goes in.

05. The skills that carry it

the rest are useful, these are the reason to install

Hook Scripter is the whole point. It does not write a caption, it writes the first beat: the line you say, the text on screen and the first frame, matched to what you want the video to do. That is the part that decides whether anyone stays.

Trend Mapper is the one that keeps you from chasing badly. It takes a trending sound or format, checks whether it actually fits your niche, and scripts a version that is yours instead of a copy. Most trend-chasing fails the fit check and this makes you run it.

Humanizer matters more for spoken scripts than for text. A written tell you can skim past. A script tell you hear, and it makes a real person sound fake on camera.

06. The optional paid add-ons

the pack is free, these extend it

The core is free forever. Two integrations extend it and you only add what you need. Keys go in a .env file.

You can run the whole thing with zero keys and post each approved script and caption into TikTok yourself.

07. The completely free setup

run it with zero paid keys

Every skill in this pack works without Publora, Pixfaro or Apify. With no keys it drops to manual mode: it still drafts and audits, then hands you text to paste yourself instead of publishing. A few prompts make that mode smooth, and you can wire in free automation on top if you want it.

For TikTok, the data scraper is davidteather/TikTok-Api. It is read-only by design, it cannot post, and it needs an ms_token copied from your TikTok cookies.

Right after install, paste this into Claude Code in the plugin's folder to turn on free mode:

I will not use Publora, Pixfaro or Apify. Read every SKILL.md and the files
in lib/ (apify_client.py, publora_client.py, pixfaro_client.py). Make all
skills work with zero paid keys: publishing outputs a clean copy-paste
block, images print the prompt and then accept a local file path, data
fetch asks me to paste the content when no scraper is set up. Do not change
any function names or return shapes. Add FREE_MODE=1 to .env.example. Show
me a summary of every change.

That alone is a working free setup. The rest is optional polish, each a one-paragraph prompt to Claude Code: swap the Apify calls in lib/apify_client.py for the scraper above, keeping the return shape and putting the new code in lib/free_scrapers.py so one import flips it back; rewrite lib/publora_client.py to post with Playwright from your saved browser session and stop before the final click unless you pass auto=True; make lib/pixfaro_client.py take a local image path instead of calling the API.

Day to day: the skill drafts and humanizes, then you paste the post yourself or let the Playwright step do it. Need an image, the skill prints a prompt, you make it elsewhere and give back the path. Audience Insights runs off the local data source.

08. The first three seconds

why this pack is built around the hook

On TikTok the video is short enough that the script is not the constraint. The constraint is the opening. If the first second does not hold, nothing after it matters.

So the pack is weighted that way. Hook Scripter builds the open, Trend Mapper decides whether a format is worth riding, and Humanizer keeps the delivery from sounding written. Those three are the workflow. Captions, planning and profile are support.

09. The catch, in plain words

read this before you install

A skill pack does not give you taste. It scripts a hook, but it cannot tell you the video is worth filming or that a trend suits you. That judgment stays with you, and the approve step is where you apply it.

Your voice needs feeding too. Give it a few of your own real scripts to work from, not a description, or the output sounds like a generic TikTok voiceover.

And Publora publishes on your behalf if you connect it. Read what it does before you paste a key.

10. Who should use it

the honest verdict

Use it if you already work in Claude Code or Codex and you post short video, or keep meaning to start. It gives you a real hook scripter and a trend fit check for free, which is most of the job on this platform.

Skip it if you do not use an agent day to day, or if you already nail the first second every time.

There is a version of this for every other platform too. All of them, with source links, are on the social media skills hub.

The pack is on GitHub, it is MIT, and it takes ten minutes to try. Worst case, nothing changes. Best case, your first second stops being an afterthought.