comment-farmer

---
name: comment-farmer
description: Rewrites the last five seconds of a short video, its caption and its pinned comment so viewers reply instead of swiping. Use when a video gets views but almost no comments.
---

# End the video so people actually comment

An ending that provokes a reply, a caption with one answerable question, a pinned first comment, a golden-hour reply plan.

## Claude does

1. **Take the inputs.** Script or transcript, length in seconds, platform (TikTok / Reels / Shorts), account topic, account name. If the script is missing, ask. Never invent what the video says.
2. **Isolate the final 5 seconds.** Hoyos' rule: the viewer judges the whole video by the intensity of the last emotion, so an ending that trails off produces silence.
3. **Pick one comment trigger** you can honestly use: deliberate gap (something obvious left unsaid), split (two options, viewer picks), correction bait (a mild claim experts will amend), missing step (a list stopping at n-1), personal ask. Refuse correction bait if the claim would be false.
4. **Write three ending variants**, each under 20 spoken words, tagged to its trigger. Voice rules from tiktok-skills: no "leverage", "delve", "harness", "hey guys"; specifics beat adjectives ("3 takes" beats "a few takes").
5. **Write the on-screen text** for those 5 seconds, inside a 900x1400px rectangle centred on 1080x1920, caption block Y=1200 to Y=1550.
6. **Write the caption:** hook line, one question, 3 to 5 mixed-reach hashtags last, under 2,200 characters. The question must be answerable in under 8 words by someone who watched.
7. **Write the pinned first comment**, posted within 15 to 20 minutes.

## Then Codex does

Codex expands the chosen ending into bulk: 20 reply templates for the predictable comment types, a minute-by-minute golden-hour schedule, per-platform caption and text placement, a pre-post checklist. Volume off a decision already made, not judgement.

```
codex exec --sandbox danger-full-access --skip-git-repo-check -C "<working folder>" - < CODEX.md
```

Fill in first: {CHOSEN_ENDING}, {TRIGGER_TYPE}, {CAPTION}, {PINNED_COMMENT}, {TOPIC}, {PLATFORMS}, {ACCOUNT_NAME}.

## Claude checks

1. Every template under 20 words, none opening with "Great question".
2. **No template states a fact, figure or claim absent from the script.** This is the failure that matters: Codex adds a statistic to sound authoritative.
3. The caption question is answerable without watching twice.
4. On-screen text sits inside 900x1400 centred, nothing below Y=1550.
5. No banned word: leverage, delve, harness, fundamentally, hey guys, or any em dash.
6. Every reply file names whose account it is sent from.

Any failure: reject and rerun, quoting the failing line back.

## Rules

- One trigger per video. Two competing asks split the comments and win neither.
- Never bait with a claim you know is wrong.
- The ending is not the caption. Different jobs, no repetition.
- Reply within the first 15 to 20 minutes or the pass is wasted.
- Public information only.
- Never invent a fact, a number or a quote.
- Anything sent in someone's name says whose name it is.

## If Codex is not installed

Claude writes the 20 templates and the schedule itself and says so.

## Built from

- social-media-skills/skills, https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills, 66 stars on api.github.com, 5 Sep 2026; engagement-routine gives the golden-hour pass.
- sergebulaev/tiktok-skills, https://github.com/sergebulaev/tiktok-skills, 22 stars on api.github.com, 5 Sep 2026; hook formulas tagged to comments, voice rules, caption spec.
- Jenny Hoyos playbook, https://www.marketingexamined.com/blog/jenny-hoyos-short-form-video-playbook, ~10M views per Short, interviewed by YouTube's Shorts product lead; the final-emotion rule.

# End the video so people actually comment - Codex task

You expand one approved decision into volume. You do not choose the ending, the trigger or the caption.

## You are given

- {CHOSEN_ENDING} - the final 5 seconds of spoken script, verbatim. Do not rewrite it.
- {TRIGGER_TYPE} - one of: deliberate gap, split, correction bait, missing step, personal ask.
- {CAPTION} - the approved caption, question and hashtags included.
- {PINNED_COMMENT} - the first comment the account posts itself.
- {TOPIC} - what the account is about.
- {PLATFORMS} - some of TikTok, Reels, Shorts.
- {ACCOUNT_NAME} - the name replies are sent under.

## Produce

Four files in the working folder.

1. `replies.md` - 20 templates under these headings in order: agrees and adds (4), disagrees or corrects (4), asks a follow-up (4), off-topic or joking (3), hostile (3), buying signal (2). Each under 20 words, written to be sent as {ACCOUNT_NAME}, with `[gap]` where a detail from the specific comment must be inserted by a human.

2. `golden-hour.md` - minute by minute for the first 60 minutes: minute 0 pin {PINNED_COMMENT}; minutes 0 to 20 the main reply pass, one line per action; minutes 20 to 60 the lighter pass; what to do if comment volume is still zero at minute 20.

3. `platform-variants.md` - per platform in {PLATFORMS}: the caption re-cut to that platform's convention, plus on-screen text placement. On 1080x1920: safe rectangle 900x1400 centred, caption block Y=1200 to Y=1550. TikTok dead zones top 130px, bottom 320-350px, right 120-164px, left 60px. Reels top 108-220px, bottom 310-450px. Shorts top ~120px, bottom ~300px, right ~48px. State that these are working numbers to check against a live preview, not platform documentation.

4. `checklist.md` - 10 pre-post lines, each a yes/no answerable in two seconds.

## Rules

- Never add a fact, statistic, price, date or quote that is not in {CHOSEN_ENDING} or {CAPTION}. If a template needs a specific, leave `[gap]`.
- Never claim a result the account has not stated.
- No em dash characters. British English.
- Banned: leverage, delve, harness, fundamentally, hey guys, unlock, game-changer, "Great question".
- Specifics beat adjectives: "3 takes" beats "a few takes".
- Each reply file states at the top that these go out as {ACCOUNT_NAME}.
- Do not invent a second trigger. {TRIGGER_TYPE} is the only one.
- No more than two templates may begin with the same word.

## Return

Print to stdout, in order:
1. The four file paths written.
2. Total reply count and the longest template's word count.
3. Every `[gap]` marker used, one per line.
4. `BANNED WORD SCAN: clean`, or each offending line with its file and line number.
5. `INVENTED FACTS: none`, or each added specific with its file and line number.