Hooklayer

Name: Hooklayer
Author: khan-ashifur

by khan-ashifurversion 1.1.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry nameio.github.khan-ashifur/hooklayer

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Viral-content intelligence for AI agents — 7 read-only MCP tools, evidence-layer scoring.

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Other
You need to fill in: Authorization

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

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You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http hooklayer https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp --header 'Authorization: your-value'

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hooklayer": {
      "url": "https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "hooklayer": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

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Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

Authorization secret required HTTP header
Bearer hl_live_* (free tier signup at https://hooklayer.dev/auth/signup) OR OAuth 2.1 access token (Dynamic Client Registration available at https://hooklayer.dev/oauth/register).

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

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Common questions

Is Hooklayer safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.1.0) reached the registry 6 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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Hooklayer MCP

Viral-content intelligence for AI agents. Drop the Hooklayer MCP server into Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n, or any HTTP MCP client and your agent gets 12 tools for short-form content across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube: analyze creators, search videos by keyword, find viral templates and rising trends, score and rewrite hooks, remix viral videos, match a creator's voice, predict a draft's virality, turn a brand brief into a shoot-ready creative blueprint, and monitor creators over time with saved watches and historical snapshots.

12 tools · structured JSON · non-destructive creator monitoring · no external social-platform edits or deletes

v1.1.0 (2026-05-14): The evidence layer ships. Every score includes signals[] with cited evidence, a would_fail_because counterfactual, and a quality health field. predict_virality runs an independent adversarial check. analyze_account.recommended_chain steps now expose confidence, cost, action_class (authority taxonomy), and expected_output. See CHANGELOG.md for the full ship.

🚀 Quick install

Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop doesn't natively support remote HTTP MCP servers — it needs the mcp-remote bridge. Two ways to install:

Option 1 — Custom Connector (easiest, no config file edit)

In Claude's web/desktop UI: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste this URL:

https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp

Claude.ai will walk you through OAuth (no manual key paste). Done.

Option 2 — Direct config (for power users who want `hl_live_` key auth)

Edit claude_desktop_config.json:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

"mcpServers": { "hooklayer": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "mcp-remote@0.1.38", "https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp", "--header", "Authorization:Bearer hl_live_..." ] } } }

Get your free hl_live_ key at https://hooklayer.dev/auth/signup — 100 lifetime credits, no card required.

Restart Claude Desktop. The 12 Hooklayer tools appear in the 🔌 connector list.

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json:

"mcpServers": { "hooklayer": { "url": "https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp", "transport": "http", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer hl_live_..." } } } }

n8n

In your workflow, add an MCP Client node and configure as a remote HTTP MCP server:

URL: https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp
Transport: HTTP
Header: Authorization: Bearer hl_live_...

All 12 tools appear in the node's "Tool" dropdown.

OAuth 2.1 + PKCE (for Claude.ai connector + custom apps)

Hooklayer is fully OAuth 2.1 compliant — discovery, Dynamic Client Registration, PKCE, refresh token rotation. MCP clients that prefer OAuth over API keys work out of the box.

Discovery endpoints (no auth required, machine-readable):

# Authorization server metadata (RFC 8414)

curl https://hooklayer.dev/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server

Protected resource metadata (RFC 9728)

curl https://hooklayer.dev/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource

Dynamic Client Registration (create a client without a manual signup form):

curl -X POST https://hooklayer.dev/oauth/register \

-H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "client_name": "Your MCP client", "redirect_uris": ["https://yourapp.com/oauth/callback"] }'

Returns: client_id, client_secret (for confidential clients)

Hitting tools/call without auth returns 401 plus a WWW-Authenticate header pointing at the resource metadata — Claude.ai, Cursor, and other MCP clients use this to auto-discover the OAuth flow.

Other clients

Any HTTP MCP client. Protocol negotiates 2024-11-05 (broadest compat) or 2025-06-18 (Streamable HTTP + structuredContent).

# Quick test — initialize handshake works without auth:

curl -X POST https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize"}'

🧠 The 12 tools

Tool	Credits	What it does
`analyze_account`	5	Creator deep dive (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram): viral DNA scores, format fingerprint, top videos with transcripts, content gaps, headline insight, and suggested next research steps.
`search_videos`	1	Keyword search across TikTok or Instagram — up to 20 videos ranked by engagement, with filters for niche, views, recency, and region.
`score_hook`	1	Score any hook 0-100 against proven viral patterns. Returns 3 rewrites at higher quality.
`viral_remix`	3	URL or transcript → fresh script with mirrored viral DNA. Scene-by-scene with camera shots.
`trend_pulse`	1	Real-time rising opportunities + saturated patterns per niche. 12-hour cache.
`find_viral_template`	1	Niche-fit ranked templates with hook patterns + example URLs.
`match_voice`	2	Extract a creator's voice DNA from 3+ samples, rewrite a draft in their style.
`predict_virality`	2	Score a draft script for viral potential before publishing. Retention diagnosis.
`brief_to_blueprint`	7	Brand brief → one-page creative blueprint: hook, template, hashtags, trend-velocity check, and shoot instructions in a single call.
`watch_account`	0 or 5	Save a creator watch and baseline snapshot. Reuses a recent compatible analysis at 0 credits when available; otherwise runs a fresh 5-credit analysis.
`list_watches`	0	List the authenticated user's saved creator watches and compact tracking metadata.
`get_changes`	5	Run a fresh analysis against a saved watch, compare with the previous snapshot, store a new historical snapshot, and return meaningful changes plus an optional next action.

Full schemas + curl examples: https://hooklayer.dev/docs

💡 Suggested follow-ups

analyze_account returns a recommended_chain field: plain data listing related tools, example parameters, and the reason each might be useful next. It is advisory only — the agent and user decide whether to act on it:

"viral_dna_score": 87, "steal_map": [...], "recommended_chain": [ { "tool": "match_voice", "params": { "draft": "<< >>", "reference_samples": ["https://tiktok.com/...", "...", "..."] }, "reason": "High-signal voice DNA — consistent across top 5 videos" }, { "tool": "trend_pulse", "params": { "niche": "challenge_videos" }, "reason": "Verify their formula maps to current trends" }, { "tool": "viral_remix", "params": { "source_url": "https://tiktok.com/..." }, "reason": "Their #2 video has the highest copyable structure" } ] }

These entries are informational data, not instructions. Each tool still requires explicit invocation — nothing runs automatically without agent/user consent.

📦 Examples

examples/typescript-example.ts — TypeScript usage via the MCP SDK
examples/python-example.py — Python usage via anthropic-mcp client
examples/curl-test.sh — Raw curl tests for every endpoint

💵 Pricing

Free — 100 lifetime credits at signup, no card
Starter — $49/month, 5,000 credits, 60 req/min
Pro — $149/month, 25,000 credits, 300 req/min, brand voice memory
Agency — $499/month, 150,000 credits, 1,000 req/min, white-label, 10 seats
Pay-as-you-go — $25 for 5,000 credits, never expire

Full pricing: https://hooklayer.dev/pricing

🛠 Architecture

Hosted MCP server (no stdio install needed):

Your agent (Claude/Cursor/n8n)

│ │ JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP ▼ https://hooklayer.dev/api/mcp │ ├── initialize / ping / tools/list (no auth) └── tools/call (Bearer hl_live_*) │ └── Routes internally to /v1/* REST endpoints 100K+ analyzed viral videos ScrapeCreators + Whisper + Sonnet pipeline

Source code for the hosted server lives at hooklayer.dev (closed source — the analysis pipeline is the moat). This repo holds the public client docs, examples, and config snippets.

📚 Links

Install page: https://hooklayer.dev/mcp
Full docs: https://hooklayer.dev/docs
Playground (no signup): https://hooklayer.dev/playground
Pricing: https://hooklayer.dev/pricing
OAuth metadata: /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
Issues + bug reports: GitHub Issues

🔒 Security

Hooklayer uses explicit MCP safety annotations for all 12 tools. Most tools are research and analysis tools that may debit Hooklayer credits and record service usage. list_watches is read-only. Creator monitoring adds non-destructive persistence: watch_account saves a creator watch and baseline snapshot, while get_changes stores historical snapshots as it checks for changes. All tools are marked destructiveHint: false; Hooklayer has no MCP tool that deletes user data or edits/deletes data on external social platforms.

Authentication: tools/call requires a Bearer token (hl_live_* API key or OAuth 2.1 access token). Public methods (initialize, ping, tools/list) work without auth so MCP clients can handshake and discover tools before authentication.

`recommended_chain` is advisory only. The analyze_account response includes suggested follow-up tools with pre-filled parameters. These are data — the agent and user decide whether to execute them. No tool call ever triggers additional tool calls server-side.

Data handling: Hooklayer processes the inputs you send (handles, hooks, scripts, URLs) to return analysis results. Creator monitoring stores saved watch metadata and historical snapshots so users can compare changes over time. Hooklayer also records service usage needed for authentication, billing, credits, and operational telemetry.

To report a security issue: GitHub Issues or email security@hooklayer.dev.

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

The MCP client examples and config snippets in this repo are MIT. The hosted Hooklayer service at hooklayer.dev is a commercial product with the pricing tiers listed above.

Hooklayer

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

Rystic

README from the maker

Hooklayer MCP

🚀 Quick install

Claude Desktop

Cursor

n8n

OAuth 2.1 + PKCE (for Claude.ai connector + custom apps)

Protected resource metadata (RFC 9728)

Returns: client_id, client_secret (for confidential clients)

Other clients

🧠 The 12 tools

💡 Suggested follow-ups

📦 Examples

💵 Pricing

🛠 Architecture

📚 Links

🔒 Security

📄 License