okhp3-murderbird-hook-and-close

Topics in the source

• MurderBird Hook and Close
• Scope
• Procedure
• Rubric
• Output contract
• Rules
• About

OverKill Hill P³ · overkillhill.com · github.com/OKHP3 Short posts live or die in two lines. The first line decides whether anyone reads. The last line decides whether anyone remembers. This skill works only on those two load-bearing points and leaves the middle to the author. Use on a short draft that already has a point: a LinkedIn post, an X post, a Threads or Bluesky post, or a Discord announcement. Long-form articles use okhp3-murderbird-thesis-forge for hooks and endings. Not for: finding the angle (okhp3-linkedin-angles), drafting the post (okhp3-linkedin-post or the platform post skill), final voice filtering (okhp3-linkedin-voice), or publishing. 1. Read the whole draft. State its point in one sentence. If there isn't one, stop and say so; no hook can rescue a missing point. 2. Score the current opening and closing lines against the rubric. 3. Write three hook options from material already in the draft: Concrete: a specific moment, object, number, or scene. Claim: the point stated sharply enough to disagree with. Turn: a counterintuitive observation the post actually supports. 4. Write three close options that land on the point: Callback: returns to the hook's image or cla

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