# tiktok-growth

Diagnoses where TikTok growth stalls and routes fixes to dedicated skills for scripting, hooks, or SEO. Built around completion rates and search.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 685 installs · ★ 199
- Author: social-media-skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/tiktok-growth/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tiktok-growth

## What it does

This skill acts as an orchestrator rather than a raw copy generator. It starts by reading `brand-profile.md`, `social-strategy.md`, and `audience.md`. Next, it pinpoints the broken phase in your loop: 1-second hook drop-off, cold audience retention, or profile conversion.

The framework assumes TikTok runs on an interest graph where follower count does not dictate reach. It prioritizes completion rates targeting ~70%+, rewatches, and search discovery through keywords placed in audio, on-screen text, and captions.

Execution delegates to dedicated tools like `tiktok-script`, `hook-writer`, or `profile-optimization`. Relying on external metrics from tools like WoopSocial breaks the diagnosis, because TikTok requires native metrics such as rewatches, traffic sources, and watch time.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill tiktok-growth -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/tiktok-growth/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/tiktok-growth/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill tiktok-growth -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/tiktok-growth/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill tiktok-growth -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/tiktok-growth/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install social-media-skills/skills tiktok-growth
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/tiktok-growth/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill tiktok-growth -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills --path skills/tiktok-growth
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/tiktok-growth/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add social-media-skills/skills --skill tiktok-growth -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/social-media-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/tiktok-growth/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Diagnose why videos stall around 200 views
- Set up TikTok SEO using keyword mentions across audio, captions, and on-screen text
- Improve video pacing to push completion rate toward ~70%+
- Convert view spikes into followers through profile adjustments and multi-part series

## Example prompts
- Diagnose why my recent TikTok videos get stuck around 200 views
- Review my brand-profile.md and build a search-focused TikTok growth plan
- Check my retention metrics and route the fix to hook-writer or tiktok-script

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: tiktok-growth
description: >-
  Use to grow a TikTok account — the TikTok-specific growth strategy that diagnoses where growth is
  stuck and orchestrates the other skills to fix it. Run when the user says "grow on TikTok," "TikTok
  growth," "get more followers/views on TikTok," "my TikTok isn't growing," "go viral on TikTok," or
  "TikTok strategy." Reads brand-profile, social-strategy, and audience first. Built on the 2026
  reality that TikTok is an interest graph — follower count is not a ranking factor; completion rate
  and rewatches drive reach, and search/SEO is a major evergreen pillar. Diagnoses the broken stage
  of the test-and-expand loop and routes to the right skill (tiktok-script, hook-writer,
  profile-optimization, content-calendar, hashtag-strategy, trend-jacking,
  viral-reverse-engineering). Judges via native TikTok analytics — not WoopSocial analytics — and
  treats followers as a business asset, not the reach mechanism.
metadata:
  version: 1.0.0
license: MIT
---

# TikTok Growth

This is the TikTok-specific **growth system** — not a content skill. It diagnoses *where* growth is
stuck and routes to the skills that fix it, on top of how TikTok actually distributes content in
2026. Don't carry over Instagram assumptions; TikTok is a different machine.

Three truths shape everything:

1. **TikTok is an interest graph, not a social graph.** Follower count is **not a ranking factor** —
   every video is tested on a cold audience, and ~70–80% of the FYP is non-followers. **You don't
   grow by accumulating followers for reach.**
2. **Completion + rewatch win.** The top signal is **completion rate (aim ~70%+)**, then
   **rewatches/loops**; likes are the weakest. The first ~1 second decides everything.
3. **Search and volume are growth pillars.** TikTok is a search engine (evergreen discovery), and
   each post is a cheap **at-bat** — consistency + reading patterns beats one-off luck.

Followers are the **business** asset (LIVE/Shop/owned audience), not the reach mechanism. (Full
model: `references/the-growth-engine.md`.)

## Step 0 — Read the foundation + the current state

Load `brand-profile.md`, `social-strategy.md`, `audience.md`. Get the **goal** and the **current
state** from WoopSocial post analytics (views, likes, comments, shares, saves) plus native TikTok
analytics for completion %, rewatches, traffic source, and follows-per-video — those are not stored
in WoopSocial. Never fabricate.

## Step 1 — Diagnose the broken stage/phase

Find where it's stuck in the **test-and-expand loop**: Phase-1 death (hook/completion) → Phase-2
plateau (cold-audience hold) → follow-conversion → search → volume/consistency → niche → community. A
growth problem is almost always **one** stage. See the diagnosis table in
`references/features-and-diagnosis.md`.
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